RE: ** Son of RPG Redbook lives ** -- RPG400-L


Well, thinking out side the box usually gets me in trouble and creates
enemies because I don't conform to the norm...guess I wasn't designed that
way...  And, usually what I say gets ignored until years later
when they figure I wasn't that far off the mark....and they're up to
thier keysters in kimche...

FORTUNATELY, that's not an issue with Jon or this group... :)

Damn the torpedoes....full speed ahead... :)

Don in DC

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Chuck Lewis wrote:

> Wow Don, those are some FANTASTIC suggestions my friend. Talk about
> "thinking outside of the box" !!
>
> Chuck
>
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> On Behalf Of Don
> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 10:53 AM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: ** Son of RPG Redbook lives **
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>
> Jon, Susan, et al...
>
> instead of being contracted for a SINGLE book, I'ld like to see you
> contrated from a services standpoint...something IBM should be very
> familier with by now...
>
> I'ld like to see you take the concept that Leif is doing with the MI400
> ebook and take it a bit further.
>
> His ebook is online and is updated on a prn basis.  When something comes
> out new or a new area of need comes up, better/different examples, new MI
> functionality in a OS400 release....he not only would update the relevant
> sections, but in cases issue a new chapter.  We'd get the new stuff just
> by doing a download...thereby keeping our own docs up to date.
>
> Further, this could also be turned into something akin to an open source
> redbook with the community providing areas of interest, chapters,
> sections, examples, etc., for editorial review, validation, approval and
> inclusion.
>
> Frankly, eventually, this could become a really nice online volume that
> would be a craddle to grave reference of RPG, with open sourced (public
> domain) code snippets that people could use on a cut and paste...
>
> Being a online instrument, you could include .wav's, mpgs, etc, so that
> people could in effect sit in a mini-how-to session (kinduva mini-FTN if
> you remember those great but very hard to learn about sessions..)
>
> The potential here is really wide open...:)
>
> You could also take from the concepts we had wanted to use on
> iseriesnation.COM long ago of putting user group lectures, etc., on the
> web, but taking a seminar on a topic (from COMMON or a LUG, etc) and
> putting it up for online review/download....hell, they could even charge a
> subscription service fee (hopefully less than my News/400 or iSeries Pro
> sub rate) and get all kinds of stuff....and hopefully it wouldn't be
> plastered with spam adverts interupting things..
>
> Don in DC
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