I've got a couple of publishing world contacts, and am a published writer (technical financial articles a few years ago, "finance explained" type website that had tens of thousands of readers, film script in development with producer)
There doesn't seem to be anything out there on Drupal.
I'm good at writing English, and translating geek into English, but lack the hardcore techie side.
I'd like to partner up with a techie co-author to put a proposal together for a "Building Websites and Communities with Drupal" style book.
Target audience - people who want to build the NGO,NFP,Edu type sites that Drupal is so good for, but who are NOT programmers and for whom running Fantastico is the only install they want, and for whom copy/paste SQL to install new mods is way scary.
I know this should be OS and all that, but this will be a hundreds of hours project (there's a lot of typing in writing a book) and I'm not independently wealthy and will only do it if I can get a commission (for the two of us).
Partner should ideally be UK based, but will consider Europe or even North America.
Money - standard author terms. May get an advance but don't bank on it. OTOH tax treatment of royalty income is quite nice in most countries. (If you are in Ireland you might even argue it's a creative work - tax free money?).
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About time
I just saw this (www.packtpub.com/mambo/book) about a book on Mambo and was going to post a message here...
I don't have the technical expertise, but can wish you all the best in your effort. Before you go to a publisher, you may like to look up lulu.com (a venture by Bob Young of Red Hat) and Packt Publishing also. Or, how about Bruce Perens initiative on open source books?
Ramdak
Graphics
I am not a tech but I will happily help you with themes, graphics, cover art etc.
Conánn
Contact me
Hi Ian
I tried to contact you twice about this, but got no reply so far.
Please contact me.
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suggestion
if you do end up starting a book, i would suggest making it available on the web as you're writing it, in much the same way Bruce Eckel does with his books: http://www.mindview.net/Books
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