Thanks to everyone who has already pre-ordered The Art Of Community on Amazon so far. I am pleased to report that thanks to your wonderful folks, Amazon have applied some discounts to the book in their different international stores. This is making The Art Of Community and the ability for people to support the project [...]
A lot of people have been asking me if The Art Of Community will be available for the Amazon Kindle. I asked O’Reilly and there is a reasonable likelihood it will, but no confirmation yet. So, Kindle fans, is that the end of the story? Well, no…
Its time to vote with your feet. Or rather, [...]
Amber Graner gained press attention for her adventure of joining the Open Source community and writing a series of frank and to-the-point blog entries sharing her experience. Based upon her honesty and passion for learning about community, I was keen to ask her to review the book and offer some comments on the content. Well, [...]
Folks, I am pleased to announce that The Art Of Community has now hit all of the Amazon stores and is available to pre-order. You can pre-order it by clicking any of the links below ready to get it first when it is released in August:
Canada – CDN$ 37.99 France – EUR 22,70 Germany – EUR 24,99 Japan [...]
Hi everyone. After a few weeks in England at the Ubuntu release sprint and then a week’s holiday, I am now back home and I just wanted to check in with some updates on The Art Of Community writing process.
Things are going well and I am currently knee-deep in the editing process. I have now [...]
All is going strong on the book development, and I literally just landed in San Francisco after a few weeks back in England. I just spent a solid seven hours editing – long live spare batteries! With only a few minutes of battery life left though, I just wanted to share wit you something rather [...]
Hi Everyone! Just wanted to give you another quick update on the book.
We are currently knee deep in the editing phase and Simon has completed his primary edits on the chapters and I have merged nearly all of them in. Andy is now working his way through the chapters one by one to add his [...]
As we move forward in the development process, there are a range of different decisions to be made: one such being the sub-title for the book. This is the key piece of information that should intrigue and tempt readers to the book and say something about the general focus and direction of the book.
As you [...]
I am pleased to announce that the first writing phase for the Art Of Community has been completed! I recently completed the final chapter in the book and submitted it to my editors. Its been a long writing slog, and it isn’t over yet!
Now the editing phase begins. This stage is broken into a few [...]
Another quick writing update. Today I wrapped the first draft of the chapter on Conflict Resolution. This takes my total page count 248 so far. I have two shortish chapters left to finish and then I should be finished with my first drafts. Its then onto the edits and getting the raw material refined, shined [...]