[Bf-docboard] Blender books -> official reference

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

I'm not looking for quick and easy ways to extract printable content  
from wiki.
That's really a technical detail for later. :)

It might go the opposite way even, where parts of the book have to be  
imported in wiki.

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

On 3 Mar, 2010, at 14:19, Wahooney wrote:

> 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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>> Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The  
>> Netherlands
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