Disclaimer: sorry if anybody took me as shouting when I wrote CAPS. I was just highlighting a diff.
Zeljko, of course I was just thinking of the USA side of things. For example Chacon wrote a ProGit book and gives it gratis however his goal I believe is to make more users for GitHub so the book is a 'because' argument. I was thinking of writing a book on Watir a while back too. My idea was to set up a Book Website and ask people to pay money into a pledge fund voting on what issues they wanted me to cover. Then I could write few pages and examples about a particular issue people wanted to cover I think I could setup a git just like progit and use issues tracker for people to vote on what should be written next. It's a bit of a wild idea. So basically I would write a book and have people sponsor chapters for it. Another Disclaimer: I donated to the Watir pledie and so can you http://pledgie.com/campaigns/2982 I also donated last year but I didn't see it shown on pledgie Raising money for Watir features, frameworks and books, articles and so on interests me. marekj Watirloo: Semantic Page Objects in UseCases http://github.com/marekj/watirloo/ Donate to Watir: http://pledgie.com/campaigns/2982 On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Željko Filipin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:31 AM, marekj <[email protected]> wrote: >> The reason is You want to make money 'BECAUSE' of the book and not >> 'WITH THE BOOK' > > Thanks Marek, I am really thinking hard these days what to do. If I was > living in the US it would be much easier for me to make money because of the > book, but here in Croatia software testing in it's infancy, not to mention > Watir use. I will write the book, and I am not writing it for the money, but > I would like to earn some money with it. I am not sure at the moment what > will I do. As Bret suggested to me a few days ago, my next step should be to > write the book and then think what to do with it. If I decide to sell the > book, my idea at the moment is to always give the book for free to the > people that do not have the money to buy it (and to the people that have the > money, but do not want to pay). > > Željko > > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-development mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development > _______________________________________________ Wtr-development mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development
