Broadly, I think such a book should be split into three parts, each of which could be split into about 5 chapters:
Part 1: Using Apache NetBeans Part 2: Extending Apache NetBeans Part 3: Contributing to Apache NetBeans Gj On Monday, July 16, 2018, Delfi Ramirez <del...@delfiramirez.info> wrote: > 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 > > > >