Re: [Pharo-users] New booklets organisation and new booklet

2018-02-06 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi Hernán, I think that LeanPub model[1] has a lot of sense for open source tech and its publications. As they say in their introductory videos in the home page[2][3], it will allow the author to improve the fitness between book as a product and audience as a market and there is a long history

Re: [Pharo-users] New booklets organisation and new booklet

2018-02-06 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Thanks Steph, I think that a good starting point will be the Panama Papers essay[1] and also installing Grafoscopio and showing her other interactive notebooks available in the "Help" menu (more to come soon). [1] http://mutabit.com/offray/blog/en/entry/panama-papers-1 Cheers, Offray On

Re: [Pharo-users] New booklets organisation and new booklet

2018-02-03 Thread Stephane Ducasse
> > Let me know if you'd like to add a bioinformatics or geographic > information retrieval chapter. I wrote the chapters in Markdown for > pandoc but I can convert them to Pillar once it's ready for Windows. Sure I will set up a booklet-folder and make sure that it compiles on travis so that you

Re: [Pharo-users] New booklets organisation and new booklet

2018-02-02 Thread Hernán Morales Durand
Hi Stef, 2018-02-02 16:16 GMT-03:00 Stephane Ducasse : > On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 2:05 PM, Hernán Morales Durand > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> One can make money by writing a Pharo-related book? > > Since most of the books I wrote are free I did not earn

Re: [Pharo-users] New booklets organisation and new booklet

2018-02-02 Thread Stephane Ducasse
On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 2:05 PM, Hernán Morales Durand wrote: > Hi, > > One can make money by writing a Pharo-related book? Since most of the books I wrote are free I did not earn much. Most of the time if ESUG would not sponsor I would earn 200 Euros max. Now the

Re: [Pharo-users] New booklets organisation and new booklet

2018-02-02 Thread Hernán Morales Durand
Hi, One can make money by writing a Pharo-related book? It takes a significant amount of effort to write a book, you know better of course. Is there a plan for monetization so people maybe gets more motivated to write Pharo material? Cheers, Hernán 2018-01-27 16:55 GMT-03:00 Stephane

Re: [Pharo-users] New booklets organisation and new booklet

2018-02-02 Thread Stephane Ducasse
We will have a journalist visiting us and I would like to show her roassal and show her your work :) On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 7:54 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote: > Hi, > > > On 30/01/18 11:36, Ben Coman wrote: >> On 30 January 2018 at 15:54, Stephane Ducasse

Re: [Pharo-users] New booklets organisation and new booklet

2018-02-01 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, On 30/01/18 11:36, Ben Coman wrote: > On 30 January 2018 at 15:54, Stephane Ducasse wrote: >> Now I wonder if it makes sense to have all the docs of drGeo here. I >> can do it but I'm thinking about it. >> May be I could create another category. > Perhaps a category

Re: [Pharo-users] New booklets organisation and new booklet

2018-02-01 Thread Hilaire
Hi Phil, I don't think it makes much sense. books.pharo.org is a resource page about programming with Pharo, not Dr.Geo. Hilaire Le 28/01/2018 à 11:55, p...@highoctane.be a écrit : We should also put the books of Dr Geo in there but maybe they are GPL. But at least a link to

Re: [Pharo-users] New booklets organisation and new booklet

2018-01-30 Thread Ben Coman
On 30 January 2018 at 15:54, Stephane Ducasse wrote: > Now I wonder if it makes sense to have all the docs of drGeo here. I > can do it but I'm thinking about it. > May be I could create another category. Perhaps a category named "Applications" or "Libraries" cheers

Re: [Pharo-users] New booklets organisation and new booklet

2018-01-30 Thread p...@highoctane.be
We have numerical methods. Why is DrGeo not making sense? Phil On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 8:54 AM, Stephane Ducasse wrote: > Now I wonder if it makes sense to have all the docs of drGeo here. I > can do it but I'm thinking about it. > May be I could create another

Re: [Pharo-users] New booklets organisation and new booklet

2018-01-29 Thread Stephane Ducasse
Now I wonder if it makes sense to have all the docs of drGeo here. I can do it but I'm thinking about it. May be I could create another category. I "read" your handbook and I do not think that it should be listed among the pharo books. Now what I would love to have is a handbook: Pharo for the

Re: [Pharo-users] New booklets organisation and new booklet

2018-01-28 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, Nice to see this collection organized in this way with more targeted reading audiences. The DrGeo PDFs are linked in the page  Phil pointed to: * English: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/300141633/drgeo-english.pdf * French: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/322576649/drgeo.pdf You could

Re: [Pharo-users] New booklets organisation and new booklet

2018-01-28 Thread Stephane Ducasse
If hilaire send me a pdf I will add them. I did not about them. Stef On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 11:55 AM, p...@highoctane.be wrote: > Looks nice. > > We should also put the books of Dr Geo in there but maybe they are GPL. > > But at least a link to http://www.drgeo.eu/help

Re: [Pharo-users] New booklets organisation and new booklet

2018-01-28 Thread p...@highoctane.be
Looks nice. We should also put the books of Dr Geo in there but maybe they are GPL. But at least a link to http://www.drgeo.eu/help would be nice. Phil On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 10:47 AM, Esteban Lorenzano wrote: > +1 > > > On 27 Jan 2018, at 20:55, Stephane Ducasse

Re: [Pharo-users] New booklets organisation and new booklet

2018-01-28 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
+1 > On 27 Jan 2018, at 20:55, Stephane Ducasse wrote: > > Hi > > We reorganised the books.pharo.org web site to make the distinction > between technology and teaching oriented booklet. > We will have specific covers soon and print available on lulu. > > In addition

[Pharo-users] New booklets organisation and new booklet

2018-01-27 Thread Stephane Ducasse
Hi We reorganised the books.pharo.org web site to make the distinction between technology and teaching oriented booklet. We will have specific covers soon and print available on lulu. In addition we got the new booklet from C. Bera that explains Call Stack Management.