Sorry ... The phone tricked me, and I send a draft of the email :)
If we pass over my syntactical and grammatical errors I think you will understand the main message anyway. Cheers -- Alessio On 7-ago-2013, at 08:35, Alessio Gambi <agamb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I am not sure that there is enough of an audience for two books. >> Perhaps you can cooperate with Igor to get your content into his book? >> There would be a lot of marketing synergy there at least. > Writing a book is a huge commitment and takes usually a lot of time; and if > we consider the fast pace at which T5 is evolving lately I do not think that > writing another one-man-book is the best strategy. > > Why don't we -as a community- collaborate towards a Web magazine/journal or > any other form of periodic publication ? > > Main reasons that I see in favor of this more flexible (agile if you like): > > - papers are more focused and requires in general less effort than a book. > They have a fixed number of pages so authors are 'forced' to just say what it > is important... Extensive code and additional examples can be also published > somewhere else. > > - articles are cheaper (free if the authors wish) to sell and easier to > distribute (google scholar like) > > - several authors can contribute to a single article and several papers can > be merged into a more concrete/solid publications (book chapters). Making > collaboration a daily activity. > > - committers and other members of the community can contribute also by > reviewing the various contributions. This will raise the quality of the > publications and will give credibility to them. > Remember that peer review is MUST be done in a voluntary fashion for many > reasons, > I --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org
