[Qgis-community-team] Books section on our website

[Otto Dassau]

Hi,

+1 from me to add a book section to the web. 

Some additional thoughts: There are already several QGIS books published on
packtpub. It seems to be attractive to write about QGIS there and not within
the project. Within the project we usually don't have enough people, writing
and updating our documentation. 

I mean we just started an Application Form to update the QGIS manual and it
seems that we will find some help from that soon.

I just wonder how can we be more attractive to people writing QGIS book? Of
course we can say, we are happy to get some % from each packtpub book. But it
would be much nicer, if we could publish our own (free) documentation. We
could provide it as free download and people can pay for printed books, if
they want and authors could get payed from that, too. Would it make sense to
go in that direction, too? 

Regards,
Otto 

Am Tue, 13 Oct 2015 10:42:48 +0200
schrieb "Neumann, Andreas" <a.neumann at carto.net>:
> 
> Hi website team, 
> 
> I have been in contact with the company PacktPub - a company
> specializing in IT and in particular OpenSource IT books. They publish
> several books on QGIS. The nice thing is that they return some of the
> revenues back to the Open Source projects. We just received a payment
> over EUR 140 from Anitas book. They will add the other books to our
> royalty scheme. 
> 
> We also just recently added an entry in their Open Source section:
> https://www.packtpub.com/books/info/packt/open-source-projects-starting-q
> 
> 
> I noticed that we don't have a book section yet on our website. Given
> that there are more and more books on QGIS, it would be nice to have
> such a section. It would be a win-win situation - for PacktPub and for
> us. And of course it wouldn't have to be limited to books from PacktPub
> but can reference any books. 
> 
> The PacktPub manager would offer us additional discount codes or group
> discounts for ebooks if one wants to buy all QGIS ebooks at once - if we
> integrate this in our web page. Please note - the more books there are
> sold - the more we also get back from the royalty scheme program. 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Andreas