Printed gnucash manual

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

I think printed manuals would be great.

I think updating the manuals would be even greater!

I encourage you to become involved.

-derek

"Dick Hamilton" <rlhamilton at frii.com> writes:

> Phil,
>
> Thanks very much. I am on both lists, though using a different email
> address (hamilton at xmlpress.net, which I should have used for my original
> message:). I'll look for replies there.
>
> Best Regards,
> Dick
> ---------------------------------
> XML Press
> XML for Technical Communicators
> http://xmlpress.net
> (970) 231-3624 
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Phil Longstaff [mailto:plongstaff at rogers.com] 
>> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 3:43 PM
>> To: Dick Hamilton
>> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org; Gnucash Devel
>> Subject: Re: Printed gnucash manual
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Dick,
>> 
>> the gnucash project has some mailing lists.  I've added these to the
>> distribution of this e-mail.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Phil
>> 
>> On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 14:47 -0600, Dick Hamilton wrote:
>> > Phil,
>> > 
>> > I have a small publishing company (XML Press) that works 
>> primarily with
>> > DocBook XML. We have been using gnucash for our books for 
>> the last year
>> > and have found it to be very useful.
>> > 
>> > I've been thinking that there are probably some users of gnucash who
>> > would like to have the tutorial and concepts guide in printed form.
>> > 
>> > Therefore I'm thinking about preparing a print edition and making it
>> > available through XML Press. This would be a print on 
>> demand publication
>> > (so no paper is used until a book is purchased) available worldwide
>> > through the expected online retailers (Amazon, BN, etc.), and other
>> > channels as well.
>> > 
>> > I know that the GNU Free Documentation License allows us to do this
>> > independently, but I wanted to see if you or any of the gnucash team
>> > would like to be involved. I think it would make a better 
>> publication,
>> > and we could arrange for the project to share in the revenue. I was
>> > thinking of targeting the 2.4 release, though depending on when that
>> > release will come out, I'm open to publishing the current 
>> version first.
>> > 
>> > I'm writing you because I wasn't sure who to speak with 
>> regarding docs.
>> > Since you are clearly at the center of activity, I figured you were
>> > either the right person or you could help me find the right 
>> person to
>> > talk with.
>> > 
>> > Please let me know if you'd be interested in pursuing this 
>> further or if
>> > you can direct me to another contact.
>> > 
>> > Best Regards,
>> > Richard Hamilton
>> > ---------------------------------
>> > XML Press
>> > XML for Technical Communicators
>> > http://xmlpress.net
>> > (970) 231-3624 
>> > 
>> > 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>
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