On Friday 01 February 2008 16:20, Jonathan Rockway wrote: some people have done similar things. maybe take a look here http://www.greenteapress.com/ they've written free books under GNU license and they charge only for printed copies just as you say.
> * On Fri, Feb 01 2008, Matt Rosin wrote: > > Possibly companies that wish to give back to open source could > > contribute to a professional documentation fund. In this case digital > > publication will enable the money to be used most efficiently. > > Yes, this is a good idea. We were talking about this on #moose > yesterday and the idea of having TPF fund book writing via grants might > be a good way to get docs. The author gets $2000 for writing a > half-length book (say, 150 pages), the community gets a freely-licensed > book to do whatever they want with. If you want a printed copy, you can > donate money (say, $10) back to TPF. > > I will probably look into this more seriously in the near future. Right > now this is pure fantasy :) > > Regards, > Jonathan Rockway > > _______________________________________________ > List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk > Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ > _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/