The sproutcore 60-60 days for 60 devs to train for 60 hours to write one book

This sounds great. The weakest part of sproutcore right now is the documentation, which has actually gotten worse since I first learned 14 months ago due to bit rot. Fixing that will go a long way towards increasing adoption.

If Strobe is the book sponsor than they only need 100 people, 25 companies or some combination of the two, to raise the money.

This sounds like an excellent candidate for Kickstarter - have you considered that option?

Totally agree, but apparently the Kickstarter people turned them down.

From the article: "I had originally hoped to do a Kickstarter project, but I have since been informed that we do not fit the profile of project they are trying to promote at this time."

That's too bad. Regardless SproutCore will be huge now that they also have Katz on their team :-)

When is the deadline for funding?