[Geany-Users] Fwd: [Harold], Write a micro book on Geany IDE - Starter for Packt Publishing

[Lex Trotman]

On 19 April 2013 22:21, Eric Crastes <eric.crastes at 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 at 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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