<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/12/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael E. Hancock</b> <<a href="mailto:mhancock@us.net">mhancock@us.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
From: "Michael B" <<a href="mailto:miklb.online@gmail.com">miklb.online@gmail.com</a>><br>> Was poking around recently and just discovered the site <a href="http://www.lulu.com">www.lulu.com</a>,<br>> and wondered if there had already been any discussion of taking the
<br>> most pertinent info from the codex and making a printed version<br>> available. Doesn't seem there would be any out of pocket expenses,<br>> and might be something the new blogger might want to possess, not to
<br>> mention, even the dedicated user to have around as reference as well.<br>> I'm actually assuming it's already been discussed, but being new to<br>> the mail list, thought I'd ask.<br><br>miklb,<br><br>Based on the discussions on the hackers email list regarding the GPL
<br>license, it seems there's nothing to stop you from creating (and even<br>selling) a book compiled from Codex.<br><br> I'm sure new users of WordPress would thank you for creating something like<br>you suggest.<br><br>
Michael E. Hancock</blockquote><div>So if there's nothing stopping me, why did Lorelle say "There is also a lot that must be clarified for copyright protection and<br>
contribution acknowledgements"? <br>
I by no means was suggesting that I was thinking of such a task on my
own, I guess I was thinking out loud after seeing Urban Giraffee offer
a printed version of their dissection of a theme.<br>
<a href="http://www.urbangiraffe.com/themes/guides">http://www.urbangiraffe.com/themes/guides</a><br>
I thought there may be a demand for a printed, scaled down version of
the codex, that would also generate some revenue (I thought I'd seen a
recent page in the codex referencing upcoming fund raising
plans/ideas). If it was something that the overall community (or
developers)wanted to pursue, I would by all means volunteer to assist in
extracting the most pertinent info from the codex (installation,
migration, upgrading, themes, template tags, CSS basics/reference, etc).<br>
It wouldn't have to be offered as a comprehensive manual, rather simply
a printed and bound "quick reference". Some people simply do
better with something they can hold in their hand, and scribble in the
margins. And a lot of these people would rather pay $20 for the
info to be collected and printed for them, rather than doing it
themselves.<br>
And again, for anyone not familiar with the site that does this,<br>
<a href="http://www.lulu.com/reader/create.php">http://www.lulu.com/reader/create.php</a><br>
No out of pocket expenses are needed, as mentioned before.<br>
</div><br></div>-- <br>------------------------------------<br>Michael B aka miklb