First of all - thank you for the new TW update! Second, regarding a book; I will definitely buy it. However (ah, here I go) would it not be better with a digital book so that it can be updated easily? Or maybe it is a digital version you're talking about?
With the risk of a thread-jacking; How about a book written in TW? From an educational/explanatory point TW has an absolute powertool namely sliders! Sliders allow different levels of depth in an explanation or description and in a form that allows the reader to stay in one place as opposed to hyperlinks. <:-) On Sunday, August 31, 2014 11:03:54 AM UTC+2, Eric Shulman wrote: > > On Saturday, August 30, 2014 8:33:21 AM UTC-7, TheDiveO wrote: >> >> On Monday, August 25, 2014 3:59:29 AM UTC+2, Eric Shulman wrote: >>> >>> However, once TW5 is out of beta, my primary focus will shift to >>> creating and publishing a TW5 version of TiddlyTools and developing new >>> plugins for TiddlyWiki5, as well as writing TiddlyWiki5 documentation >>> (perhaps an actual book?!?) and providing user support for the "migration >>> path" from TiddlyWiki Classic to TiddlyWiki5 (i.e., guidelines and scripts >>> for converting existing documents). >>> >> >> Eric, please write an actual book (as in actual *e*book) on TW5 ... I >> will immediately buy and gladly pay for it! An O'Reilly "TW5 in a Nutshell" >> would be great. With insight for both beginners and hackers/customizers. >> > > I would LOVE to write a book about TiddlyWiki. The only catch... is that > it takes a lot of time and undivided attention. Unfortunately, because I > am a self-employed software consultant, I have to spend a great deal of > day-to-day effort on finding and earning income from various client > projects, and TiddlyWiki inevitably get pushed to a lower priority until > the monthly bills are paid. Of course, if there was a enough income from > TiddlyWiki to cover my monthly living expenses without other client work, I > would gladly spend all of my time exclusively on writing the TiddlyWiki > book. > > Jeremy and I have been discussing how to make this happen, and we've been > talking about creating a Kickstarter campaign in order to raise enough > funds for me to work full-time on the book. > > To do this, we need to decide on an outline of topics the book should > address. Once we have a proposed "Table Of Contents", I can then estimate > how long it is likely to take to write that material. That will, in turn, > help determine the initial funding goal and any "stretch" goals needed to > complete the work. > > We will also need to structure the Kickstarter campaign to provide various > "rewards" for different levels of funding from contributors, so your ideas > for campaign rewards that you think people would like are also important. > > Your thoughts? > > -e > > > > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
