Re: [Qgis-community-team] Books section on our website

2015-10-13 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Neumann, Andreas wrote: > Hi website team, > > I have been in contact with the company PacktPub - a company specializing > in IT and in particular OpenSource IT books. They publish several books on > QGIS. The nice thing is that they

[Qgis-community-team] Books section on our website

2015-10-13 Thread Neumann, Andreas
Hi website team, I have been in contact with the company PacktPub - a company specializing in IT and in particular OpenSource IT books. They publish several books on QGIS. The nice thing is that they return some of the revenues back to the Open Source projects. We just received a payment over

Re: [Qgis-community-team] Books section on our website

2015-10-13 Thread João Gaspar
Hi Andreas, i think that is a good idea. +1 João 2015-10-13 9:52 GMT+01:00 Tim Sutton : > Hi > > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Neumann, Andreas > wrote: > >> Hi website team, >> >> I have been in contact with the company PacktPub - a company

Re: [Qgis-community-team] Books section on our website

2015-10-13 Thread Otto Dassau
Hi, +1 from me to add a book section to the web. Some additional thoughts: There are already several QGIS books published on packtpub. It seems to be attractive to write about QGIS there and not within the project. Within the project we usually don't have enough people, writing and updating our

Re: [Qgis-community-team] Books section on our website

2015-10-13 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Otto, I think we should distinguish between the manual, training manual and books. QGIS.ORG should be in charge/control about the manual, training manual and Python documentation/cookbook - and let the other books be written by other authors/publishers. I see nothing wrong about asking