[Asterisk-Users] FAQ, Documentation, How-to, etc

[Steven Critchfield]

On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 14:34, Michael Graves wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:11:22 -0600, Steven Sokol wrote:
> 
> >Would anybody be willing to shell out some money and hire (or offer a
> >bounty for) a viable "Getting Started with Asterisk" or "Asterisk for
> >Dummies" or "The Complete Idiot's Guide To Asterisk" or something like
> >that?  RTFM is better/easier than UTFG, IMHO.
> >
> >The Vovida/vocal team (granted they are funded by Cisco) has actually
> >written a book that was published by O'Reilly (sp?) an company last
> >year.  While a printed book may not be a great idea, considering the
> >pace at which things change, how about an e-book?
> 
> I was wondering why there was such a book in place, but none for *. If
> there was such a book for say $50...I'd buy it.

With as much as I would hate the onslaught of new users that have to be
taught how to search for answers, I think this is the best way to get
the word out. It is probably likely we could get several thousand new
users by having a book that is available at most books stores. I'd
suggest the O'rieley proceeds get turned into hosting payments for
Digium though as this will no doubt increase their hosting needs without
necessarily a great upturn at first in their revenues. I may be wrong on
that though.
-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>