Re: you know...

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

On 06/02/2015, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:
> You know just having an IDE is not enough, it would be great if we
> could get someone to write a a book or something on gnome development
> that we can sell and use the proceeds to fund GNOME.

It would be great, but writing a good book takes a lot of time and
effort so I would find it surprising if someone was to write one and
donate the rights to GNOME. If it happens, great, but it doesn't seem
likely.

Another approach would be to organise something along the lines of a
book sprint. These basically work a bit like a very targeted, short
hackfests. The first day is spent planning out the index, splitting it
into short chapters and letting the attendees pick what they're
working on. The second day is writing (usually 1-2 chapters per
person) and the third day is for reviewing. By the fourth day, we had
a short, published book in our hands. This did inspire a similar
approach from the documentation team towards some of the devel docs in
the last year which were written as relatively self-contained guides
with examples and could be taken for a book quite easily. The key to
organising something like this is to get the leading developers into
one room.

The other issue to consider if that our toolkit and even application
design change quite quickly so the book would become outdated fast.
One way around this is to use an on-demand printing service so that we
don't have to hold books in stock.

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