I think this is a great initiative and thanks to all those involved! Whilst documentation is important to have, I agree that the authors should not go unrewarded. I would be happy to pay an amount of dollars that I would otherwise pay for a book which ends up collecting dust (well most of them). Say a $US 50 to get access to the website? If all OL applications developers did this we would be collectively giving back just a small piece of the huge benefits of using OL in the first place. I wonder how many others out there would be prepared to donate this amount?
Cheers, Brad.... -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christopher Schmidt Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:49 AM To: Chip Taylor Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] OpenLayers Book On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 02:31:14PM -0800, Chip Taylor wrote: > Just curious about your statement "I don't think we should take it upon > ourselves to waste beautiful Saturdays generating documentation for free > (person opinion)." Why would you "waste your beautiful Saturdays" > generating code for free then? I think the same sentiment applies to code. The idea is that there should not be an expectation from the community that all this hard work comes for free -- a sentiment that many seem to express. (In fact, this whole thread started off by someone volunteering me to write a book.) > Open Source is cool, Open Source is fun but > there has to be a reason for a person to make that effort to develop the > software. Most times that reason is the pride in a job well done and the > appreciation one feels when you see your efforts being used. And sometimes, it needs to be more than that. In other words, "If you really love the software, support it: financially, documentation wise, code wise, or whatever, rather than expecting things to magically happen from the people who have supported the project in the past." I can't speak for Tim directly here, but that is the impression I get. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
