Thank you for your time Regards Devashish Badlani
Sent from my iPhone 5 > On 24-Feb-2014, at 10:09 pm, Daniel Greenfeld <[email protected]> wrote: > > After due consideration, I think updating djangobook.com should not be a GSOC > project. Why not? > > First, the book is owned by the authors and Apress, not the Django project. > The Django community has no control. This probably runs afoul of some sort of > GSOC rule. > > Second, it's representative of something that is at least partly a commercial > effort. In theory, Apress could take the revised content and publish it as a > third edition. While I'm not opposed to the commercial selling of books at > all, I think Google would take significant exception to GSOC funds being used > this way. > > Third, I think providing example projects for the tutorial chapters is not > worthy of a GSOC project. It's too much of a low-hanging fruit and people > have certainly done it already. I know because people try to do this with Two > Scoops of Django's chapters (search GitHub and you'll find some attempts). > > Fourth, because of the third issue, we risk complaints of plagiarism. The > content already exists, it's just a matter of finding it. GSOC funding for > code examples that already exist? No. No. No. Bad idea! > > Daniel Greenfeld > >> On Monday, February 24, 2014 2:28:41 AM UTC-8, Tom Evans wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Devashish Badlani <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Sir, >> > >> > >> > Sample projects with the updated Django 1.6.2,use of latest modules in >> > each >> > of them and an helpful documentaion ,would certainly enhance the value of >> > DjangoBook is what I feel >> > >> >> How would this work? The book currently admonishes readers that: >> >> """ >> The community edition of The Django Book is in transition. While the >> book mentions Django version 1.4 in places, the vast majority of the >> book is for Django version 1.0 >> """ >> >> So you will write sample projects aimed at 1.6.2 for each chapter in a >> book written for 1.0? This does not seem wise. >> >> Cheers >> >> Tom > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "Django developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-developers/FzW1hcXYg7U/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/c1720c55-3b90-42e4-9045-9c06b8b99e84%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/B2E2055A-BA63-4EA0-9539-6E8B248766EE%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
