Honestly, I am surprised that you think so negatively about that.

Ok, spamming the community might not be the best method to find authors.
But if the (somewhat) greater visibility, more users, and maybe even more developers mean only greater support requirements, that's kinda sad to hear. No offense meant.

Robert

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr@gmail.com> wrote:

On 19 April 2013 22:21, Eric Crastes <eric.crastes@gmail.com> wrote:

Well, Packt is a well known edition company. I own some of them books (or ebook).

If they want to write a book on Geany, why not ? it could be a good way to increase it visibility !

However, for those who expect to become rich by writing technical book like this, forget about it ;-)

ericc

Yes, packt exists and publishes books on computing topics.  However I don't think much of their quality.  And their spamming methods to find authors are questionable.  A quick web search shows they do the same to many projects.

My concern is the potential impact on the Geany community, unless everyone agrees, if one person writes the book and gets paid, even a little, others may feel that they have been used, answering questions on the ML and IRC.

And the benefit to the community is likely to only be greater support requirements.

Cheers

Lex

 

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Frank Lanitz <frank@frank.uvena.de> wrote:

Am 19.04.2013 12:45, schrieb Harold Aling:

> Anybody else got the following spam message?

Yes. I assume everybody who put something to github.

Cheers,
Frank

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