Well to be fair, it didn't sound like Massimo was in favour of an online book earlier in this same thread. That was why I thought there was a case to be made.
You are right of course about raising the next question: who is going to do it? But in my mind, there isn't any point in trying to cross that bridge if influential people like Massimo wouldn't wish to go anyway. Where there's a will, there may be a way; but without that the status quo shall remain. Not that the status quo is sooo bad! (apart from the pop group, I mean) :) On Feb 3, 7:27 pm, Thadeus Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > There is no case. We all agree. > > Now who is actually going to DO it ? > > I can't. I work, sleep, and sometimes if I have time eat. Then I work > some more. My company is not going to pay me to write web2py > documentation. > > And as my comment earlier wasn't just to be funny it is serious. Do > you have time to devote to creating an online documentation book for > web2py? If you do then by all means we're not stopping you! > > -Thadeus > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 1:14 PM, villas <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think that Cakephp also has a very good online book: > > http://book.cakephp.org. > > I notice these days that they are also raising some revenue with > > adsense, which might work well. > > > However, people like me would also be willing to pay a subscription to > > access a more up to date online book. Goodness me, the book is only 12 > > dollars or something, that's 1 dollar per month. How many hours do I > > waste searching for answers and then have to waste someone else's time > > by asking on the list? That's a terrible cost to the community. > > > Ironically, whilst Web2py enables us to fully embrace the most > > efficient publishing technology that the world has ever seen, we wait > > for an entire year between updates on the main documentation. > > > Wouldn't it be a great benefit if all that wonderful assistance given > > on the group list, plus the errata, can be continually incorporated > > into the book. Making happier users, a less busy list, and our top > > development guru freer to put his brilliant ideas into action. We > > simply need an online book. I rest my case :-) > > > --David > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "web2py-users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
