+1 too About the found raising, maybe could it be a book project in My Major Company or Kickstarter for instance...
Regards, Sebastien. On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Josh Kamau <joshnet2...@gmail.com> wrote: > What if the developers donate (or do a fund raising... ) to fund the > writing of the book? > > We could set a budget ... then start pledging for the same.. when the > pledge amount is enough, we pay and the work begins. > > Then we get the book for free ..... or something like that. > > Josh > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Michael Mosmann <mich...@mosmann.de > >wrote: > > > Am 27.07.2012 00:16, schrieb Igor Vaynberg: > > > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Bertrand Guay-Paquet > >> <ber...@step.polymtl.ca> wrote: > >> > >>> Seeing how the previous book authors became less active after writing > >>>> a book I think this is not a very good idea... :-/ > >>>> > >>> Is this because the books didn't sell well enough? > >>> > >> i can only speak for myself, > >> > >> define enough :) i agreed to work on the book knowing full well it was > >> not going to sell a million copies. i wrote it so the community has an > >> easily accessible resource. > >> > > same for me.. but a german market differ from a more global one:) > > > > I don't know the authors > >>> personally and I don't know much about the publishing world so it could > >>> very > >>> well be another reason altogether. > >>> > >> writing the book was a very long and a very exhausting effort, much > >> much more then i thought it would be. when i was done the book was > >> actually twice as long as what was published, but the publisher wanted > >> me to trim it down to keep the cost low... they would have to charge > >> more if the book had more pages :/ > >> > > I had to come upfront with how much pages it would be in the end. The > > publisher made their calculation based on it, so the page count is more > > strict than some one may think. > > > > > >> the combination of those two things has burned me out somewhat. at > >> least enough to make me want to go play with other things for a while. > >> > >> -igor > >> > > same for me, but more time has passed, so i would take the pain again:) > > maybe i am a fool:) > > > > Michael:) > > > > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@wicket.**apache.org< > users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org> > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > > > > >
