hi,
The Inkscape book is online.
Its looking great! We need to get the word out. Remember all the proceeds go to the development of the manual - one idea is to sell copies so we can afford doing another inkscape book sprint. So..to help promote the book it would be great if anyone with a website log etc could cut and paste the following into their site:
<img src="http://en.flossmanuals.net/bookstore/bookstore.gif"/> <style> @import url("http://en.flossmanuals.net/bookstore/bookstore.css"); </style> <script src="http://en.flossmanuals.net/bookstore/bookstore.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> FM.init({"items":1,"paging":true,"preferred":["Inkscape"]}); </script>
This will show the book in a small 'ajax' insert in your page and link to the page with more info about it and a link to buy the book.
There is more info on configuring the embeddable shop if you look here: http://www.flossmanuals.net/bookstore
2 euro (about 2.5 USD) is made from each sale. The team can then decide what to do with the $, I personally hope it will go towards another book sprint. FLOSS Manuals takes no $ but I hope the team will make a donation to FLOSS Manuals from sales to help us build and maintain the tools/community etc.
adam
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 5:51 PM, adam hyde wrote:
2 euro (about 2.5 USD) is made from each sale. The team can then decide what to do with the $, I personally hope it will go towards another book sprint. FLOSS Manuals takes no $ but I hope the team will make a donation to FLOSS Manuals from sales to help us build and maintain the tools/community etc.
What about 1EUR to FM and 1EUR for next book sprint?
Next question: how often do we update the manual available from lulu?
Alexandre
to update the book let me know and i will upload it
it takes a few minutes
adam
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 14:09 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 5:51 PM, adam hyde wrote:
2 euro (about 2.5 USD) is made from each sale. The team can then decide what to do with the $, I personally hope it will go towards another book sprint. FLOSS Manuals takes no $ but I hope the team will make a donation to FLOSS Manuals from sales to help us build and maintain the tools/community etc.
What about 1EUR to FM and 1EUR for next book sprint?
Next question: how often do we update the manual available from lulu?
Alexandre
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Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 5:51 PM, adam hyde wrote:
2 euro (about 2.5 USD) is made from each sale. The team can then decide what to do with the $, I personally hope it will go towards another book sprint. FLOSS Manuals takes no $ but I hope the team will make a donation to FLOSS Manuals from sales to help us build and maintain the tools/community etc.
What about 1EUR to FM and 1EUR for next book sprint?
+1
Next question: how often do we update the manual available from lulu?
I think we should keep the book up to the current release and only update for release versions, unless there's a specific reason to do another update.
JF
If you're referring to this current book, there are definitely a lot of chapters that should/could be added. (I assume you're asking because you finished another one?)
I definitely think that (in particular for this initial version) when we have additional polished chapters, they should be included in the book - however, I think it's more up to Adam how often, since he's the footpad.
Additionally, we should probably be subversioning so as to keep updates obvious. It would be strange to have 45 diffferent versions of the "0.46" manual :) So, maybe add something like "rev 1" (so as to avoid confusion with subversions of the software itself). I'm not sure if this is something that would require an updated cover (I think it should if possible), but definitely, at least, be included in the book itself somehow.
Thoughts?
JF
Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Joshua Facemyer wrote:
I think we should keep the book up to the current release and only update for release versions, unless there's a specific reason to do another update.
Like a new chapter? :-)
Alexandre
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