Hi, all I live in china and have been using netbeans for swing and java ee dev for about 10 years. I think I can help translate the book to chinese, let's make this great platform speading more faster.
cheers. Kain Huang On 7/16/2018 7:53 PM, Delfi Ramirez 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: [email protected] > 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 >> [email protected] >> http://jj-blogger.blogspot.com >> https://www.apress.com/index.php/author/author/view/id/1866 > > >
