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Prototype and Scriptaculous : meet the authors ?

 
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How do you proceed to write a book about free libraries ?
Do you meet the authors and make some kind of agreement ?
 
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Hi Satou,

I did meet Thomas Fuchs a few weeks ago, and we've talked over email and IM on and off during the course of the book, but I started out by just using the libraries, and finding them compelling enough to want to write about. The community as a whole has been supportive of better documentation for Prototype and Scriptaculous for some time, and we're just a part of that process.

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Doesn't the author want to tkae part of the book writing ?
 
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I made an offer to Thomas Fuchs, but he was too busy working on the code

Even on relatively small libraries like P & S, there are several authors, and other kinds of input from various people too. Scriptaculous and Prototype are licensed under MIT-style licenses, and aren't owned by anyone, although Sam and Thomas are still undeniably the No. 1 Code Gods of P & S respectively.

Documentation is just one of those inputs. It's the nature of Open Source, different people bring in different skill sets to contribute.

Money isn't a major motivation for my writing, anyway. Sure, it's good pocket money, but not a major source of my income, and I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't think it was an efficient way to reach out to a lot of developers and help to build up the community.

I am benefitting from P & S by writing this book. Hopefully, I'm giving back too, by bringing new people to it, raising it's profile, and so on.

Dave
 
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Thank you for clarifying this
 
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