Hi, as nobody has volunteered I try to write this proposal for publisher.
---------------------- Dear Sir, You are the publisher for a book from John W. Rittinghouse titled as Beginner's Guide to Gambas. It is very fine book but parts of it are pretty dated. Gambas project is very active and it has users all over the world. *Gambas* is a free development environment based on a *Basic* interpreter with object extensions, a bit like *Visual Basic™* (but it is *NOT* a clone !) More information at the http://gambas.sourceforge.net . Benoit Minisini is the starter of the project and main developer. <this needs more accuracy - has Benoit made almost all of it?> Gambas is now at version 2.8.2 and version 3.x.x is under development. Book was based on version 1.x.x. As is typical for open source projects documentation is always little behind. Developer's do what they like most - code! And producing nice documentation is quite tuff and dull project. So it is not done. On the Gambas mailing list an idea was raised that maybe if we get permission from you we would turn this book as a baseline for wiki. Then Gambas users and developers all over the world make it current and better. It is hard to start wiki from zero so that is the reason for this request. Only you know how good seller it is at the moment. But it's little old and possible customers noticing that might not like the situation. Also it is already available as free download in pdf-format. What's your benefit 1. There would be your add on the wiki mentioning what book and publisher it is based on. 2. After the wiki has lived for something around 12 months someone from the Gambas community might turn contents of the wiki to a book you could publish. Many people like to buy the real book also independent that same information is in the net. <here more good points for the publisher> Yours Sincerely <whoever> ------------------------ You may now open the fire :-) Best Regards Kari ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
