I would be interested in a book but I'm curious what kind of effort this involves? How much time does a book generally take (I know, it's not an exact science, but any time range helps)?
If we publish a book as a group we should think about the fact that the tone / style of each chapter might come out differently. Perhaps the editor takes care of unifying this? Also, some people might drop out. I assume there is no real money to be made in books, correct? I also doubt it makes much business sense even as a self-promotion, so it's more a labour of love. --emi ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On 17 July 2018 11:58 PM, Josh Juneau <[email protected]> wrote: > I've just briefly touched base with Apress on the idea and the editor I spoke > to sounds very interested. He says that they can divide the book up amongst > any number of authors, and also do bylines for each of the chapters so that > the respective authors will be noted. Typically in this situation there is > one person who acts as the lead on the project. That way the editors and > project coordinators at Apress can work with the lead, rather than all of the > separate authors. > > Anyone interested in taking lead on the book? If so then I can get you in > touch with the editor and we can get the details of each author/chapter, etc. > worked out. > > Thanks > > Josh Juneau > > [email protected] > > http://jj-blogger.blogspot.com > > https://www.apress.com/index.php/author/author/view/id/1866 > > > On Jul 17, 2018, at 3:40 AM, Delfi Ramirez [email protected] wrote: > > > > +1 Huang Kai 😉 > > > > A wonder of myself to the community. Is there exist any intention or > > interest to include JSF in the topics -- chapters, subchapters -- of the > > book? > > > > Cheers > > > > Delfi Ramirez > > > > Segonquart Studio > > > > https://segonquart.net > > > > From: huang kai > > > > Sent: 17 July 2018 10:30 > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > Subject: Re: Apache NetBeans Apress Book > > > > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
