[Bf-docboard] Blender books -> official reference

[Ira Krakow]

Hi Ton,

That's great.  So perhaps we publish a "Blender Bookshelf" series, based on
the wiki content, with volumes based on your proposed divisions.  Some
tentative titles:

Blender Bookshelf, Volume 1:  User Interface
Blender Bookshelf, Volume 2:  Modeling
Blender Bookshelf, Volume 3:  Animation and Rigging
Blender Bookshelf, Volume 4:  Materials, Texturing, and Lighting
Blender Bookshelf, Volume 5:  Rendering and Post Production
Blender Bookshelf, Volume 6:  Extending Blender With Python

We could divide the group into teams, to work on the volume (or volumes)
they have the most interest in, to basically edit the wiki sections.

Then we end up with 6 books (perhaps more, if we decide there is too much
content for one volume), worked on by people who the most motivated.

Ira


On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:

> Hi Ira,
>
> It was always my intention that our printed guides would be create
> using wiki, and donating all new stuff back to wiki. We do that
> already since 2003.
>
> -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 6 Mar, 2010, at 8:03, Ira Krakow wrote:
>
> > An idea just came to me.  Please feel free to poke holes in it.
> > Why not publish the wiki, with the author as The Blender
> > Foundation?   The principle is just like Durian or Elephant's
> > Dream.   The title would be "The Blender 3D Wiki", by The Blender
> > Foundation.  The benefits:
> >
> > 1)  The content not only exists, but has been peer reviewed, edited
> > (by the community), and known to be high quality and useful.
> >
> > 2)   The authors can be given credit for their efforts, just as was
> > the case with the community generated movies.  We could even give
> > anyone who buys the book author credit, just like the Blender based
> > movies.
> >
> > 3)   It's useful.  How many of us would buy it?  I definitely
> > would.  There are many people who feel more comfortable with a
> > printed book than with always looking things up online.   We could
> > even have a Kindle edition of the wiki, which would give the content
> > search capability.  It would be published under the same GNU license
> > that applies to Blender, or the variant that applies to books, where
> > the Foundation keeps the copyright and grants publishing rights to
> > the publisher without giving up creative control.
> >
> > 4)   It's in the same spirit of open source that has made Blender
> > such a success.  It's been proven, for example, in the Linux
> > community, that these types of books are profitable.  Look at:
> >
> > http://oreilly.com/openbook/
> >
> > Tim O'Reilly has been very successful with this model.  I even think
> > O'Reilly Media would be interested in publishing it.
> >
> > 5)   Last, but certainly not least, this would be nice revenue for
> > The Blender Foundation :).  It would be our way of saying thanks to
> > everyone who has made Blender such a wonderful program.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Mike Belanger <
> mikejamesbelanger at gmail.com
> > > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> We already have excellent online documentation, in the form of the
> >> wiki.  It is organized very closely to the ideas that have been
> >> proposed.  Reading the wiki has helped me tremendously.  Between
> >> the wiki and Google, what more would the reference book(s) provide?
> >
> >
> >
> > There should be a distinction between what sort of topics the wiki
> > covers, and what the books do.  The books should be
> > value-added over the wiki.
> >
> > I agree with Ton et all on organizing books by common areas, ie
> > Animation, Modeling, Texturing, etc.  Those
> > could all have specific tutorials, step-by-steps, on creating
> > something.
> >
> > I think the wiki should be a generic glossary of tools, terminology,
> > and settings.  Specific tutorials in the wiki shouldn't have as much
> > priority.
> >
> >
> > Mike Belanger ( Mikahl )
> > www.watchmike.ca
> >
> >
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