[Bf-docboard] Blender books -> official reference

[Wahooney]

Not sure how much this will help, but here goes anyway:

Mediawiki recently added a new feature to wikipedia (which may be 
available to all mediawiki installs via extension) that allows one to 
build books out of wiki pages, wikipedia goes one step further by 
offering a service to have said books published.

If the Online Wiki Docs for blender can be made complete enough, this 
might be a viable solution.

If not, there's always Scribus/OpenOffice.org.

- Keith

On 3/3/2010 3:14 PM, Ton Roosendaal wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Writing Blender books for (commercial) publishers is already a good
> and common bizz nowadays. I can only recommend anyone who is
> interested in this to contact publishers with good plans!
>
> Blender Foundation is also publisher, we did this initially also to
> open up the market for Blender in bookstores. That's not really needed
> anymore. :)
>
> What would be useful though is still:
> - have about one book published per year to get additional income
> - support the current active documentation volunteers
> - have good quality, open and free docs in wiki.
>
> I'd like to get two projects running for this.
> One is for an updated "Blender Essential 2.5" book, for that I'll
> first work with the team who has done the first Essential book.
>
> Another project is to check on the feasibility for a good (annual?)
> printed reference guide. Check for example how the 2.3 guide reference
> was done, I still think a good example of useful reference content for
> users (includes screenshots etc).
> Would there be a useful and efficient way to organize this? To get
> both a great printed book as content for wiki? How? Who? :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Ton-
>
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