looking for an author of a Beginning Pharo or related

Hello,

The timing of this mail is interesting, because just yesterday I stumbled on the "Free Software Needs Free Documentation" preface of the GDB documentation.

It's a dozen paragraph so not exactly a short read, but the gist of it is that the author urges other authors to use free documentation licenses for the documentations/manuals they are writing, so that they can be modified and grown by the community along with the free software they talk about.

I've attached the full version if some people are interested in reading it.

Sorry for this tangent, Stéphane. The timing was just too perfect. :)

Thomas

On 01/03/2019 08:09, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:

Hi guys

We have been contacted by a (good) editor that would like to publish on Beginning Pharo or related. 

I have a lot of material that I can give but no energy to write such book :)

If one of you in interested, let me know. I could even be a co-author. 

Stef

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Stéphane Ducasse

http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr

http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 

03 59 35 87 52

Assistant: Julie Jonas 

FAX 03 59 57 78 50

TEL 03 59 35 86 16

S. Ducasse - Inria

40, avenue Halley, 

Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza

Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650

France

Ok I will contact the editor telling that there are some wishes from the community to do something. 

After we can brainstorm on what should be purpose and outline. 

Stef

On 1 Mar 2019, at 18:21, Ben Coman <[hidden email]> wrote:

Obviously its good to be circumspect at such an earlier stage,

but I can imagine a few "good" editors who publishing a book would really lend some legitimacy and exposure to Pharo.

That would be overall beneficial even if the book is not free.

Stef, I am interested to know more.

cheers -ben

On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 at 17:01, Thomas Dupriez <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hello,

The timing of this mail is interesting, because just yesterday I stumbled on the "Free Software Needs Free Documentation" preface of the GDB documentation.

It's a dozen paragraph so not exactly a short read, but the gist of it is that the author urges other authors to use free documentation licenses for the documentations/manuals they are writing, so that they can be modified and grown by the community along with the free software they talk about.

I've attached the full version if some people are interested in reading it.

Sorry for this tangent, Stéphane. The timing was just too perfect. :)

Thomas

On 01/03/2019 08:09, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:

Hi guys

We have been contacted by a (good) editor that would like to publish on Beginning Pharo or related. 

I have a lot of material that I can give but no energy to write such book :)

If one of you in interested, let me know. I could even be a co-author. 

Stef

--------------------------------------------

Stéphane Ducasse

http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr

http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 

03 59 35 87 52

Assistant: Julie Jonas 

FAX 03 59 57 78 50

TEL 03 59 35 86 16

S. Ducasse - Inria

40, avenue Halley, 

Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza

Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650

France

--------------------------------------------

Stéphane Ducasse

http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr

http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 

03 59 35 87 52

Assistant: Julie Jonas 

FAX 03 59 57 78 50

TEL 03 59 35 86 16

S. Ducasse - Inria

40, avenue Halley, 

Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza

Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650

France