[Qgis-psc] Advertizing books

[Marco Bernasocchi]

Absolutely agree with Anita, I was asked multiple times to author
/co-author qgis books but I always had to back off due to lack of time and
fear of the ammount of work involved.
Cheers

On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, 08:37 Anita Graser, <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:

> I also don't see it as concerning to list books from people that don't
> seem actively engaged in the wider community.
> If someone has a financial motive for writing books, they'll soon realize
> that there are much easier ways to make money.
> In the case of books, I think we should be proud about the increasing body
> of materials, particularly in other languages than English.
>
> Regards,
> Anita
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 11:18 PM Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I agree with Richard on this as well. Nothing wrong with having promoted
>> books but I think we just just list them all.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Nathan
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 4:56 AM Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I agree with Richard. Let's be happy that there are books out there.
>>>
>>> If someone writes a book about QGIS - it is not about the money anyway -
>>> you can't make a living out of that.
>>>
>>> Andreas
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 26.09.2018 um 20:39 schrieb Richard Duivenvoorde:
>>> > On 09/26/2018 07:57 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>>> >> Hi all,
>>> >>
>>> >> the page
>>> >>
>>> >> https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/books/index.html
>>> >>
>>> >> lists books done by core qgis developers and team, as well as others
>>> >> done by people who never contributed. In line with what we are doing
>>> for
>>> >> certification, promoting only people who actively collaborate with the
>>> >> project, it seems coherent to list only the first ones.
>>> >>
>>> >> Opinions?
>>> > Mmm, isn't that too much?
>>> >
>>> > I was just happy that we have some non-english books into the list (I
>>> > added a turkish one today). Only books of community members (which also
>>> > write) would be a short list.
>>> > I think we should just be happy to see as much books as possible :-)
>>> >
>>> > The ordering at this moment is just:
>>> >
>>> > - language
>>> > - date of publishing
>>> >
>>> > But if others feel really differently, let me know.
>>> >
>>> > Let's stay an open and inviting community I think.
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> >
>>> > Richard Duivenvoorde
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