Hi Steve,
Thanks for your answers on the tutorial and your work. You miss one:
want about a free content license like the creative commons one? If
you're planning to create a book from your tutorial, you can still
consider a non-commercial variation of the license (for example the
Attribution - Share Alike - Non Commercial). Would be really a shame not
to have again, a comprehensive text on Squeak which can be modified for
academical purposes and translated, for example, in Spanish. I know that
there is a lot of work in creating good original documentation and
licensing under a Open Content License could seem a no sense, but if you
see the Light and Matter series at
http://www.lightandmatter.com/
which has even a more liberal license, allowing selling of the book, the
only condition is that people let the derivate works open also. You will
see that this model can work (in fact, the author not only has this site
and books as a prove, but also a lot of articles about why it works).
Books are also cultural artefacts which gain value in they and their
ideas circulate, and I hope that the editorial business can coexist
with this idea in an age where Internet has changed a lot of things
about distribution models.
Hoping for your answer,
Offray
Steve Wessels escribió:
I've been on vacation and just yesterday, Thursday, began to process email
messages and resuming work on my Squeak Tutorial. Many folks have written to
me, personally and here publicly, with both feedback, comments, corrections and
questions. I want to take a moment and update my status on the tutorial work.
First of all, thank you goes to everyone who has written me with positive
feedback. Thank you for your validation of my efforts.
A few people have asked for a Zip file of the tutorial contents. At this time
I have no plans to make this available. As a regular component of my
publication process I in-fact make a Zip file backup of the entire tutorial
each time I update the web site. However, the file is huge. It's not
something that can be emailed and I have not been uploading the file to the web
site because of its size.
I would like to make PDFs and will investigate that in the future.
My current activities are focused around fixing reported and self-discovered
typos, and I am doing a complete walk through from scratch as if I were an
interested student. In this way I am finding errors and omissions. I am
currently in section 3. This takes as long, perhaps longer, than it took to
actually write the tutorial.
After the coming update(s), I still have more to write. So even though the
tutorial in its present firm is highly useful, as many of you have told me, the
work itself is not done.
Furthermore I have an ambition to publish the tutorial as a book some day and
will begin work on that in earnest when this next set of activities has
completed.
- Steve
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