Hi All: Agreed there is the need of a chapter-by-chapter community written book.
Count me in. Even if there is the need for the book, once written, of a single translator for the whole community content. Even everyone of us has English as a mother tongue or second tongue, we may able to reach and target new markets and new loyal fellows in this world wide world we live in Cheers Delfi Ramirez Segonquart Studio https://segonquart.net From: Oliver Rettig Sent: 16 July 2018 13:47 To: dev@netbeans.incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Apache NetBeans Apress Book Hi all, I like the idea of a community-written book very much. This can encourage people to join our great community and it show that netbeans is now a apache project ... For me the community is one of the most important facts to work with netbeans and rarely with eclipse. I have some experience with writing a book for Tomcat 5: https://www.rheinwerk-verlag.de/tomcat-5_700/ and the most important thing I have learned from this book project is: better not to write such books alone. It would be a pleasure for me to write a chapter for a community-written Netbeans book, or may be to translate from english to german some parts, if we want to have a german version. But I have less experience in organzing such things. In scientific communities typically you have an editor or a small team of editors. Their job is often really a lot of work: to defines the chapters/articles, to find people who can write the articles and to push the authors to deliver in the timeline. An other question is where and how to publish the book. My experience with the Tomcat book was that the publisher was a really great help in formatting and proofreading. And a publisher can be a very big help in invertising for apache netbeans. But it should be also possible to write the book without a publisher at our own. In this case we can have an open-pdf-Version of the book. Maye we can have this too with a publisher? best regards Oliver > I've been approached by Apress regarding interest in a book on Apache > NetBeans. I personally do not have enough time to devote to another book > right now, so I wanted to send a note to the Apache NetBeans developer > group to see if there are any developers interested in authoring a book > (perhaps a collaborative effort). > > I know things are very busy right now, and I've already told Apress that > the main focus is the release of Apache NetBeans 9 right now, but maybe a > book project could start this fall. There are no timelines right > now...just interest in a book on the new open Apache NetBeans IDE. > > If anyone is interested then reply to this message and I can get a list of > names together to send along to Apress. > > Thanks > > Josh Juneau > juneau...@gmail.com > http://jj-blogger.blogspot.com > https://www.apress.com/index.php/author/author/view/id/1866
