No offense to Kelcey, but I agree with Joe. We need to at least have few folks review the book. It would be bad to endorse a book that has mistakes or misrepresents ACS.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Brockmeier [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 4:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Packt Book - Publish on our website? > > On Wed, May 22, 2013, at 03:01 PM, Kelcey Jamison Damage wrote: > > I agree with Noah, > > > > We have to take the good with the bad otherwise we are inadvertently > > endorsing specific works as an organization. > > I'd rather point to none than have to point to everything that's slung out > with > "CloudStack" in the title. Like I said - I used to review these, and there's > a lot, > lot, lot of subpar books out there. > > In the Solr example, I looked - in each case, the authors have either been > involved in Solr directly or have extensive histories with Solr. > And Solr only points to two books, when there are actually quite a few other > Solr books on Amazon. > > Looking at other Apache projects, I'm not seeing a lot of projects that point > to books written about them. > > Best, > > jzb > -- > Joe Brockmeier > [email protected] > Twitter: @jzb > http://www.dissociatedpress.net/
