[drupal-docs] New book about Drupal?

[Jeremy Epstein]

Liza - I admit that my main role in the Drupal community has always
been a development one, so it's hard for me to see things from an
end-user's perspective. Maybe that's why it's a good thing someone
else is writing this book.

But despite my bias, I still think that developers, as the people most
intimate with Drupal, are the ones that are most hungry for a new and
solid informational source, such as a book. I didn't say that the
entire book should be written in geek-speak. But certainly a
reasonable portion of it should be. I would be very disappointed if
the first published Drupal book was of little or no value to me as a
developer.

There are many books about the 'cultural revolution' of blogging, and
about 'web 2.0' (*snickers* when's 2.1 coming out?), and I'm sure that
many more will be written in the next 12 months. There are no books
about Drupal. Let's stick to Drupal, and people can read about the
wider phenomenon elsewhere (if they're so inclined). Don't mistake
what I'm saying for narrow-minded code-junkie-speak. Even
non-technical end-users, such as bloggers and artists, will be
disappointed if they buy a book about Drupal, and half the book isn't
about Drupal at all, but about the 'cultural revolution' of which it's
a part.

On 8/10/05, Liza Sabater <blogdiva at culturekitchen.com> wrote:
> If you think Drupal is just for developers you have no understanding of
> the cultural revolution that blogging has wrought. That revolution was
> a metaphor in net art 10 years ago. What we are seeing here in
> conferences like BlogHer and online in places like DailyKos, is a
> cultural phenomenon agenced by the technology and changing how we are
> living and forming communities online and off.
> 
> My challenge to you as a developer is to take a step back and think of
> yourself as the guy chipping flints off a rock in the cave. Think of
> what that did to the development of humanity. You're the flint chipper,
> blogs the spearhead. Look how easy and transparent the development of
> that technology was. That's blogging 1.0. The question now is what does
> blogging 2.0 look lik. That's what Drupal is poised to be.