As I have been teaching SI502 (www.si502.com) and SI539 (www.si539.com) I have been accumulating a bunch of lecture and written material about the Google Application Engine. It started to very much feel like a book that should have a pretty good market if it could be done quickly.
So I called up my buddy Michael Loukides at O’Reilly and pitched a book proposal to him. Half of the book already has first draft written materials from SI539 and the other half of the book has well-developed lecture materials from a combination of SI539 and SI502.
Here is my book proposal for you to look at if you find it interesting:
http://www.appenginelearn.com/chapters/toc.htm
The proposal has links to existing printed and lecture material for all of the proposed chapters.
I hope and expect to be able to keep the first drafts of the AppEngine chapters in their current form under Creative Commons Attribution License. Once I sign a contract with O’Reilly, further work will be according to their terms and conditions. Of course ORA is pretty cool about giving books back to me under CC after they are out of print – another reason I like ORA as a publisher.
As always, comments are welcome. I may be looking for reviewers if the book moves forward.