Is there anyone who'd be willing to buy a copy and review it? At this point that might be the best service the developers could offer potential buyers of the book.
Best, Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Christian Mayer > > I had a look at the sample chapter. > The quality of the text looks quite bad to me, it's about amateur > writing level, I guess. The layout was done with OpenOffice which also > fits in this picture. > Searching the net for the author, it looks like he has written lots of > computer books on totally different topics with varying quality (see > Amazon ratings) and is publishing a lot of them via book-on-demand > services. This makes me a bit suspicious on the quality of the > information as, AFAIK, no FGFS professional had helped. > > All of this is no problem (I know lots of poorly written books) - except > that this book pretends to be official. This is at least misleading, if > not even an clear fraud. > > IMHO we should offer an direct link to the book from our pages (it IS > great that people start writing books about FGFS!) - but we also should > insist that it's not called official. Official can only be books that > are "from the project" itself (however that is achieved; probably by an > authorship of a few developers together *with* *a* *review* *from* the > other *developers*) > > As a result I guess that an English translation won't help you, > tangyong, much. It would be better to increase our effort in the > existing documentation to make it perfect - and perhaps try to publish > it somehow (BOD? O'Reilly?). > > CU, > Christian > > tangyong schrieb: > > Can anybody translate the book to English?I think there are more people > > can read English than German language. > > > > > > ---------- ---------- > > From:""Curtis Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" > > Date:2007-01-25 06:47:29 > > To:"FlightGear developers discussions" > > <flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > > CcÎÞ) > > Subject:Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Book > > > > > > On 1/24/07, *Melchior FRANZ* wrote: > > > > * Curtis Olson -- Wednesday 24 January 2007: > > > http://www.bomots.de/flightgear/index.htm > > > > > > Bomots has just published a FlightGear book in the German > > language. The > > > title is "FlightGear kompakt", ISBN: 3-939316-12-1. > > > > Umm, but how is it the "official" FlightGear-user handbook. > > In which way is it "official"? Authorized in any way? Or is > > it just TFM (The FlightGear Manual) translated? Just > > marketing speak?! 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