On Wednesday 03 September 2008, Kari Laine wrote: > Hi, > > as nobody has volunteered I try to write this proposal for publisher. > > ---------------------- > Dear Sir, > > You are the publisher for a book from John W. Rittinghouse titled as > Beginner's Guide to Gambas. > It is very fine book but parts of it are pretty dated. Gambas project is > very active and it has users all over the world. > > *Gambas* is a free development environment based on a *Basic* interpreter > with object extensions, a bit like *Visual Basic™* (but it is *NOT* a > clone !) More information at the http://gambas.sourceforge.net . Benoit > Minisini is the starter of the project and main developer. <this needs more > accuracy - has Benoit made almost all of it?> > > Gambas is now at version 2.8.2 and version 3.x.x is under development. Book > was based on version 1.x.x. > > As is typical for open source projects documentation is always little > behind. Developer's do what they like most - code! And producing nice > documentation is quite tuff and dull project. So it is not done. On the > Gambas mailing list an idea was raised that maybe if we get permission from > you we would turn this book as a baseline for wiki. Then Gambas users and > developers all over the world make it current and better. It is hard to > start wiki from zero so that is the reason for this request. > > Only you know how good seller it is at the moment. But it's little old and > possible customers noticing that might not like the situation. Also it is > already available as free download in pdf-format. > > What's your benefit > 1. There would be your add on the wiki mentioning what book and publisher it > is based on. > 2. After the wiki has lived for something around 12 months someone from the > Gambas community might turn contents of the wiki to a book you could > publish. Many people like to buy the real book also independent that same > information is in the net. > > <here more good points for the publisher> > > Yours Sincerely > <whoever>
Looks not to bad but don't forget to add to write which book. > ------------------------ > > Product Details > > > > - ISBN: 0741429489 > > - ISBN-13: 9780741429483 > > - Format: Paperback, 364pp > > - Publisher: Buy Books on the Web.Com > > - Pub. Date: January 2006 And the who should get the permision is at [EMAIL PROTECTED] You are writing on behalf of the admin nom. The email address is a bit stupid, thats why I did suggested he should do the request. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
