[Gambas-user] Nice book of Gambas

[Kari Laine]

Hi,

as nobody has volunteered I try to write this proposal for publisher.

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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>
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You may now open the fire :-)

Best Regards
Kari