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It's cool that someone is writing a book about Docker, but I think its too early. At this stage there are new features added every month, so once the book comes out several of the features might not work the same way anymore.

Hi - I'm the author. It is very early. But the book won't be published until Docker is 1.0 at least. The site is there to gauge interest and provide a bookmark for people to suggest ideas on content.

Why would you promote this so early with a site devoid of content? Maybe it would be better to delete this submission until you have something substantial to show.

To measure the level of interest in the product, I guess. If there are enough signups, he will actually write the book.

From the submission history, it appears that the OP is a fan of docker, so it's likely the site was shared with that in mind, rather than him/her being the author of the linked content.

Yep I'm just a fan and minor contributor to Docker. Thought it was interesting to see a book so early but I do agree it's probably too early. Docker is changing fast. Version 0.5 should likely be out today.

Great initiative! I'm a big fan of starting with books when I'm learning something new as they usually have a better narrative and deeper explanation than the docs and 'getting started' guides do. Maybe this could be written using github with pull requests and stuff when things change? Open sourced books rocks. ;)

If you are looking for an open source docker book, check out https://github.com/kencochrane/docker-tutorial I'm building a Docker Guidebook, that I hope to release as a free ebook.

It is on github, and pull requests are welcome. It is currently written for Docker 0.5. I will keep it up to date, and when we hit 1.0 I'll look at getting some hard copies made, if there is a demand.

I still need to pick a license, not sure what is best for a book, open to suggestions.

CC-BY IMO, as a content license it most closely matches the ASL that Docker is released under.

I was disappointed when I clicked through to OP's submission. As with the Flynn post yesterday, I'm glad to see at least he's not the only game in town. Unfortunately I am not able to reach github right now. The isup.me site says I'm alone in that. Does anyone else have this problem now?

Neat! Great to have an ecosystem of content starting to grow. The Creative Commons license chooser is a good way to go: http://creativecommons.org/choose/. And their "before licensing" page is pretty good too: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Before_Licensing.

If James happens to see this I'd be interested to know what tool chain he uses to produce his books (I don't think the OP is the author right)?

Please let it include DocBook.

I was hoping for org-mode actually :-)

I write mostly in Markdown using VIM or IAWriter with a scattering of LaTeX for some complex formatting. I have some Rake-based automation that hooks into pandoc to take the content and generate PDF, ePub, Mobi, HTML etc formats. You can see an example of the finished product in the sample chapter from one of my other books: http://www.logstashbook.com/TheLogStashBook_sample.pdf.

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