I do not manage the wiki. Alvaro does. I just link it. On Feb 4, 5:59 pm, Anand Vaidya <anandvaidya...@gmail.com> wrote: > Request to Massimo: > > Can you please deny updates to the wiki while we complete transferring > the pages over. Please leave the content visible though. You could > turn off logins to the wiki, probably > > If you need ownership of the domain and/or the CMS site , I am open to > sharing or transferring, please let me know. > > Regards > Anand > > On Feb 5, 12:57 am, tiago almeida <tiago.b.alme...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Why go through all this effort to just replicate what's already available in > > the PDF, to an html format? > > > What a website can give, and a book can't, is tutorials, short tips, FAQs, > > discussions etc. Something the wiki could provide if it were open to public > > editing (or the newly createdhttp://webtopy.org/community/ifit gets > > comunity support). > > > An online version of the book is, to me, just a bad idea: it won't give any > > extra benefit in relation to the pdf and it will negatively affect the book > > sales (which might be important). > > > Just my 2 cent. > > Best Regards, > > Tiago > > ------ > > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:39 PM, villas <villa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Feb 3, 8:58 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > > Denes is right. > > > > Hi Massimo, > > > Well, more specifically then: > > > > 1. Do you agree that it's a good idea to use the current book to make > > > an online book? If not, let's forget it. > > > > 2. Do you have an opinion on what form the online book should take? > > > e.g. Djanjo, Cakephp, Php.net manual with comments... > > > > 3. Income. Will the online book project negatively affects the income > > > from the book. To make sure that this does not lead to a problem, I > > > propose that you make a suggestion as to how this may be compensated. > > > I suggest alternatives might include adsense, a subscription model, > > > and donations, etc for access to all the update notes. Of course, > > > even If the online book became the main place for the documentation to > > > be updated, you could still sell the paper version. This would be > > > something for you to decide / accept. > > > > 4. What format should we use for the text? (Markdown, please?) > > > > 5 .It is important for the domain to belong to Web2py/Massimo. May I > > > suggest book.web2py.com? > > > > 6. No one will take the online book project seriously unless we also > > > think about the roles we would need to fill. There are people in this > > > community with much greater project expertise than I, so please feel > > > free to dismiss the following. I am only making suggestions. e.g. > > > - Model Designer. It is crucial that the data is saved in the most > > > logical way for the future. This shouldn't be trusted to someone like > > > me! I vote for you (Massimo), if you have time. Part of my > > > reasoning is that you know how to design a workable versioning > > > system :-) > > > - Project Manager. Allocate tasks (and fire people!), supervise, > > > coordinate timeline. > > > - Programmers for controllers and views. Maybe split this into two: > > > Admin and Enduser. > > > - Html, CSS and JQuery effects (optional extra, can come later) > > > - Data Loaders to copy and paste the sections of the book. I think > > > I'd be good at this one, if the project manager would have me! > > > > Sorry to ask/make these specific questions/suggestions, but without > > > your support (Massimo), let's be realistic, a community effort to > > > produce and support the online book project probably isn't going to > > > happen. > > > > Thanks for listening. > > > --D > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "web2py-users" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<web2py%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en. > >
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