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

[Dominic Hopf]

Yep, got that mail as well...


2013/4/19 Robert Fekete <fekete77.robert at gmail.com>

> 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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