One more note in this thread: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Definitive-Guide-Django-Development/dp/1430258810
The Definitive Guide to Django is being revised. Apress has added Katie Cunningham to the author list, something that now I just remembered Jacob Kaplan-Moss mentioned to me in early 2013. I can only guess that djangobook.com will be updated as well. I apologize for not considering the ownership issues in my first email in this discussion. Daniel Greenfeld On Monday, February 24, 2014 8:39:41 AM UTC-8, Daniel Greenfeld 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 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/8decc06e-2704-446a-a900-30fc0802de3c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
