+1 for the main structure
I think Part 2 should include: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4k5JpluJM8 https://www.slideshare.net/GeertjanWielenga/extending-nbide - new language support - some available language additions - useful available external plugins > 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
