Hi fellow DP members, I'm looking for some open-source-minded programmers to contribute their tutorials or scripts for this website: http://www.php-etc.com. The site is focussing on PHP and JavaScript, so topics around the area will be most relevant. However, other related materials (Apache, MySQL, Postgresql, etc) will be more than welcome. Each contribution will be acknowledged fully to the contributor, with the option to add a link to their website / blog / email (if they choose to). A biography page will also be added to the site in the future for top contributors. Unless requested otherwise, all source code contributed will be published and released under GNU Public License. If you have any questions or comments, please email me on: coder(at)php-etc(d.o.t)com. Or if you'd like to send in your contribution(s) straight away, please send them to the same email address and include: - Name or nickname you'd like to get displayed. - URL to website, blog and/or email that you'd like to get displayed, if you want to at all. - Brief description of what you are contributing. Thank you very much. Rob
You always have to give in order to get, no matter how teasing by the nature of contribution you might sound. Everyone can have a blog today and write for their own gain instead of your adsense ads and earnings. The only thing that can make people write for you is money and...money, money, money....or, maybe a PR7 for a year.
manilodisan has a good point -- (not wanting to sound mercenary) what's in it for us? The most obvious thing would be a link from a site with PR -- how will you promote your site / how much will you spend? If you can convince us that the site will grow then you may have some interest.
I disagree with your opinions about that everything is all about money. We'd be living in a very sad world if this was true, but fortunately we aren't. The success of the open source community, the amount of help people get from this DP forum (and many other similar forums) are some of the proofs. Different people have different reasons / motivation to spending their time, skills and effort, giving away their work for free - apart from of course the self-satisfaction from making themselves useful to others. Some do it for indirect business potentials, some do it for "fame", some do it for their portfolio / something they can put in their C.V. / resume, some do it to get feedback from other people that can lead to improvement of their work, etc. I am one of these people, and I am looking for more.