Comments on: Writing a Book With Free Software http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/01/28/writing-a-book-with-free-software/ The Book On Community Management, by Jono Bacon Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jono Bacon http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/01/28/writing-a-book-with-free-software/#comment-139 Jono Bacon Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:13:37 +0000 http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/01/28/writing-a-book-with-free-software/#comment-139 <p>Thanks for your continued support, Josh!</p> Thanks for your continued support, Josh!

]]> By: JoshPanter http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/01/28/writing-a-book-with-free-software/#comment-138 JoshPanter Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:25:52 +0000 http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/01/28/writing-a-book-with-free-software/#comment-138 <p>I'm going to school using all open source software. I plan on achieving a masters and hopefully a doctorate using only open source software for my papers and projects. So far so good! This achievement will, if all goes well, be on my resume some day.</p> <p>Thank you for doing this: announcing that it is not only possible to write a book using all open source software is one thing, but doing it, being a proven example, is an entirely other thing all together.</p> <p>So thank you.</p> I’m going to school using all open source software. I plan on achieving a masters and hopefully a doctorate using only open source software for my papers and projects. So far so good! This achievement will, if all goes well, be on my resume some day.

Thank you for doing this: announcing that it is not only possible to write a book using all open source software is one thing, but doing it, being a proven example, is an entirely other thing all together.

So thank you.

]]> By: Jono Bacon http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/01/28/writing-a-book-with-free-software/#comment-135 Jono Bacon Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:57:05 +0000 http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/01/28/writing-a-book-with-free-software/#comment-135 <p>linuxcrypt: thanks so much! :)</p> linuxcrypt: thanks so much! :)

]]> By: linuxcrypt http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/01/28/writing-a-book-with-free-software/#comment-134 linuxcrypt Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:48:12 +0000 http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/01/28/writing-a-book-with-free-software/#comment-134 <p>I am loving this project Jono. Great job thus far, looking forward to the final product and spiral media and attention from this. Great Work!</p> I am loving this project Jono. Great job thus far, looking forward to the final product and spiral media and attention from this. Great Work!

]]> By: Jono Bacon http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/01/28/writing-a-book-with-free-software/#comment-131 Jono Bacon Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:59:47 +0000 http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/01/28/writing-a-book-with-free-software/#comment-131 <p>Lee: yes, OpenOffice.org is merely used for me to write the content in and mark it up: O'Reilly will typeset it.</p> Lee: yes, OpenOffice.org is merely used for me to write the content in and mark it up: O’Reilly will typeset it.

]]> By: Florian http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/01/28/writing-a-book-with-free-software/#comment-130 Florian Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:55:56 +0000 http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/01/28/writing-a-book-with-free-software/#comment-130 <p>Very nice to see that you're using openoffice to write this book.</p> <p>Openoffice is in my opinion not anymore just an alternative for MS word. No, Openoffice is now on the same eye level as word. with 3.0 it became a really good office suite.</p> <p>In Germany lots of government agencies from various cities changed from word to openoffice. So schools, universities and many other institutions now work with openoffice!</p> <p>Great!</p> <p>best regards</p> <p>Florian</p> Very nice to see that you’re using openoffice to write this book.

Openoffice is in my opinion not anymore just an alternative for MS word. No, Openoffice is now on the same eye level as word. with 3.0 it became a really good office suite.

In Germany lots of government agencies from various cities changed from word to openoffice. So schools, universities and many other institutions now work with openoffice!

Great!

best regards

Florian

]]> By: Lee Aylward http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/01/28/writing-a-book-with-free-software/#comment-129 Lee Aylward Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:10:04 +0000 http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/01/28/writing-a-book-with-free-software/#comment-129 <p>Is O'Reilly going to have a designer covert your OOo document to a professionally typeset version for print? I'm not entirely clear how the process works, but I'm curious if they are picky about what formats and formatting they'll accept.</p> <p>Thanks for the interesting peek into the process.</p> Is O’Reilly going to have a designer covert your OOo document to a professionally typeset version for print? I’m not entirely clear how the process works, but I’m curious if they are picky about what formats and formatting they’ll accept.

Thanks for the interesting peek into the process.

]]> By: amaneiro http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/01/28/writing-a-book-with-free-software/#comment-128 amaneiro Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:41:48 +0000 http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/01/28/writing-a-book-with-free-software/#comment-128 <p>Good of hearing that O'Reilly is using subversion to share the previous documents. My experience of using this kind of tools to share contents between non-programmers is a bit dissapointed.</p> <p>Although control-version-systems could be a real useful tool in some projects I was involved, finally, I had to used other tools like wiki or google docs to write contents in a way that other people could see them easily.</p> <p>Because this, we needed to do a further stage (format it the doc to print) and it was a bit hard & boring task :S</p> Good of hearing that O’Reilly is using subversion to share the previous documents. My experience of using this kind of tools to share contents between non-programmers is a bit dissapointed.

Although control-version-systems could be a real useful tool in some projects I was involved, finally, I had to used other tools like wiki or google docs to write contents in a way that other people could see them easily.

Because this, we needed to do a further stage (format it the doc to print) and it was a bit hard & boring task :S

]]> By: Jono Bacon http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/01/28/writing-a-book-with-free-software/#comment-126 Jono Bacon Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:45:23 +0000 http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/01/28/writing-a-book-with-free-software/#comment-126 <p>Blaise: not right now.</p> <p>jorge: hah, not quite. I think I will just stick with OOo.</p> <p>Malcolm: to be honest, so long as it has the change tracking and notes functionality, I don't really care which version I use. :)</p> <p>Jonathan: hey! Yeah, when I wrote for the Ubuntu book I needed to use Word too. Times are a-changing. :)</p> Blaise: not right now.

jorge: hah, not quite. I think I will just stick with OOo.

Malcolm: to be honest, so long as it has the change tracking and notes functionality, I don’t really care which version I use. :)

Jonathan: hey! Yeah, when I wrote for the Ubuntu book I needed to use Word too. Times are a-changing. :)

]]> By: Jonathan http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/01/28/writing-a-book-with-free-software/#comment-124 Jonathan Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:35:50 +0000 http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/01/28/writing-a-book-with-free-software/#comment-124 <p>Jono,</p> <p>Nice to see you using OpenOffice for this. The last time we did a revision of the Official Ubuntu book I tried to use OpenOffice but the commenting and tracking that Word has is so much better then OpenOffice 2.0. Looking forward to trying this in OPenOffice 3.0</p> <p>Jonathan</p> Jono,

Nice to see you using OpenOffice for this. The last time we did a revision of the Official Ubuntu book I tried to use OpenOffice but the commenting and tracking that Word has is so much better then OpenOffice 2.0. Looking forward to trying this in OPenOffice 3.0

Jonathan

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