[drupal-docs] New book about Drupal?

[Boris Mann]

On 8-Aug-05, at 2:06 PM, Kieran Lal wrote:

> Working groups coming out of Drupal that could do with how to build  
> community guides.
>
> 1) Drupal for advocacy
> 2) Drupal for non-profit community organizations
> 3) Drupal for organizations that want community empowerment.
> 4) Drupal for education
> 5) Drupal for community journalism.
> 6) Drupal for artists.
>
> Walk each role through decisions to build their site and how to  
> engage.  Use lots of real world examples of success and failure.

We talked about this in Portland as well (sorry I missed you, Djun).  
I think a comprehensive English book on using Drupal that has a  
section on different kinds of sites would work well. Other topics  
include:
* the Drupal.org community
* developing with Drupal -- as web framework, basics of modules,  
vertical (new content type) vs. horizontal (new fields a la event,  
location) extensibility
* theming Drupal, the theme layer, overriding themes
* overview of core modules, some key contrib ones

There is a lot of material to be covered, and sounds like lots of  
interest in this. Dries has pretty much a standing offer to write a  
book, but no time himself to pull together the entire thing. You  
might consider collaborating with him and some others.

Cheers,

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Boris Mann
http://www.bmannconsulting.com