Hi Umit -- I'd love to write the equivalent of the "red book" for OSG, and Bob and I have discussed this at length. We have a couple ideas. The most expensive route would be to sit down and write it, based off of our OSG course material. This would be very time-consuming. I can tell you from my experience writing other books that the return on investment is quite small. I'd want to see outside funding before I started on such a project. So far no one has stepped forward to fund it. (At some point in the future, I want to post a book proposal on my web site and a projected cost, kind of like an open proposal. Maybe someone will hire me to do it.) Another way to fund this might be by selling promotional opportunities to companies. For example, donate $1000 and get a screenshot from your product on the cover, donate $5000 and get 5 pages in the book about how your company is using OSG, etc. Another angle is an "OSG Recipes" -type of book created from contributed articles on OSG usage. This would distribute the workload over many people, and the reward would be a nice bullet point on your resume or CV. Bob and I announced this project at the last OSG BOF at SIGGRAPH, but we've been sidetracked from finalizing the details and therefore the project launch is delayed. Our OSG Reference Manuals have also been derailed (the last was for v2.2) but I hope we can hit the streets running with v2.8. This is a great resource, as it's wonderfully organized and presented and the PDF buys you hyperlinks to related material. However, revenue on these books is also low, and so far hasn't funded the code comment cleanup that I hoped it would. Revenue has barely covered production costs. To summarize, books are great resources, I love making them, and lots of people love them. But if we price them affordably (the QSG PDF is free, for example), producing them is almost a guaranteed money loser unless you have external funding. Paul Martz Skew Matrix Software LLC http://www.skew-matrix.com <http://www.skew-matrix.com/> +1 303 859 9466
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ümit Uzun Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 3:08 PM To: OpenSceneGraph Users Subject: Re: [osg-users] OSG Books (was: RE: Number of contributors) Hi Paul, Thanks for awesome source OSGQSG. But at this point I have a question, do you or anyone think write official guide for OSG? I mean it is like RedBook, OrangeBook or like this kind of real standard book about core OSG and/or other plugins? I think much people really needs top-down approached book about OSG. Best Regards. 2009/2/7 Sukender <[email protected]> Thanks Paul, I didn't thought the Quick Start Guide was so complete. Very nice book. However, I already know much of what's inside (Well, I guess that's the role of a "Quick Start Guide", eh? ;) )... Sukender PVLE - Lightweight cross-platform game engine - http://pvle.sourceforge.net/ Le Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:27:47 +0100, Paul Martz <[email protected]> a écrit: > You can get the current version of the Quick Start Guide here: > http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fGroupID=2076 > > The book's web site (example download, errata, etc) is here: > http://www.skew-matrix.com/OSGQSG/ > > For latest info on our book projects, visit here: > http://www.osgbooks.com/ > > Paul Martz > Skew Matrix Software LLC > http://www.skew-matrix.com > +1 303 859 9466 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sukender > Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 12:07 PM > To: OpenSceneGraph Users > Subject: Re: [osg-users] Number of contributors > > An OSG book free for OSG devs??? Oo > Where? Where? Where? :) > > Sukender > PVLE - Lightweight cross-platform game engine - http://pvle.sourceforge.net/ > > > Le Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:54:01 +0100, Wang Rui <[email protected]> a écrit: > >> Hi Paul, >> >> I'm ready to translate the updated book into Chinese again, if it >> still free for OSG developers. :-) >> >> Wang Rui >> 2009/2/7 Paul Martz <[email protected]> >> >>> Hi Robert -- I'm updating the Quick Start Guide for 2.8, and would >>> like the most up-to-date number you have for the total number of OSG >>> contributors. Currently, I have "Over 250 developers contributed to >>> OSG v2.0." If you have a more recent number, please post it. Thanks. >>> >>> Paul Martz >>> *Skew Matrix Software LLC* >>> http://www.skew-matrix.com >>> +1 303 859 9466 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> osg-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph >>> .org >>> > > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org -- Ümit Uzun
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