[Gambas-user] Nice book of Gambas

[Jason Hackney]

I'm not certain how much the publisher cares. Feel free to let me know
if this has already been hashed over.

Excerpt from page 2 of the book:

"All rights reserved. Personal use of this material is permitted.
However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising
or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for
resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any
copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained
from the author, John W. Rittinghouse."

Without diving into technicalities, I think that just about covers it.
And trying to find a way around it will likely take more effort than
just creating a new/original work from the community.

I originally offered to assist with getting the dead-tree version of
the book up-to-date without knowing Mr. Rittinghouse's personal
concern that will likely prevent him from continuing work on the book.
It was from that thought that the wiki idea was brought up by John
(allbasic).

I'm personally not very interested in wiki since wiki doesn't travel
well on airplanes (I fly for a living) or to hotels with spotty
internet access. I have a strong preference for paper. My offer still
stands. I'd be willing to offer my time to help edit a [new] book for
Gambas. I do a fair job at spell checking and some general grammar
cleanup.

This is my feeling: I think what may be best is not to attempt to
use/revise/rehash this book out of respect for Mr. Rittinghouse, but
perhaps to create a new book altogether (paper, electronic, whatever).

I started creating some very basic documentation (based almost
exclusively on gambasdoc.org/help) for my personal use, but what I
really want--and probably what most everyone learning Gambas wants--is
a lot of good examples.

Respectfully,
Jason