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Originally Posted by ThereseWeel We have to remember that vast majority of people on the planet have no idea that open source portal engines like Mambo exist and more importantly dont understand how their lives can benefit from them. Many people, especially oldies like me, learn better by sitting down with a physical book rather than reading something on-line. I can hardly wait to see your book sitting on the shelf at the local bookstore.
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The book itself has a primary goal well summarized in the paragraph above, but the content of the book and its CD-ROM use some new learning ideas to teach the user all things Mambo from cover to cover. Before reading the first chapter, the reader will have the opportunity to see Mambo in action and use the tools included on the CD-ROM to meet the Mambo community.
The underlying reason for creating the book is to provide the reader with a means of experiencing a highly active opensource community where users help other users at no cost to each other, help resolve difficult to grasp problems, and have a chance to make their wishes come true in the process. Mambo is the glue holding the community together, but the community itself closely parallels everyday life. As a community, we have our ups and downs, we sometimes disagree about this or that, and we meet new chalenges head on. In this respect, the community itself is a second home for many because we interact well together.
Thanks to a nice mix of rich media content on CD-ROM, the book is highly visual for those with the impatience to read and a good read for those who enjoy reading. It might be best to think of the book as a container for getting a number of messages across. It's also intended to give recognition to those in the community who make it so rewarding.