Great ideas! +1 for splitting the book into parts. Once everyone has had an opportunity to provide their input in this thread, I will approach Apress with these ideas.
Thanks Josh Juneau juneau...@gmail.com http://jj-blogger.blogspot.com https://www.apress.com/index.php/author/author/view/id/1866 > On Jul 16, 2018, at 4:25 PM, Mario Schroeder <ma.schroe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > NetBeans is a great platform to write desktop applications. I would also > include a tutorial how to build an application based on the lasted APIs. > > Oliver Rettig <oliver.ret...@orat.de> schrieb am Mo., 16. Juli 2018, 23:17: > >> +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
