Friends, today I am proud to throw over the microphone to a guest blogger who is a member of the Art Of Community family: Andy Oram.
Andy is one of the editors of the book and has written a fascinating piece called Lobbyists’ tricks: the difference between coalition-building and community-building. Enjoy!
It seems strange that [...]
For the last few months Simon St. Laurent has had his feet firmly wedged into the primary editing boots for the Art Of Community. With an extensive background in community and a nose for helping to produce great writing, Simon has been helping take my stream of consciousness and refining it. I caught up with [...]
Hello all!
Firstly I apologise for the lack of updates recently on the Art Of Community. The reason for this is simple: I have been feverishly working on the book! It turns out that with my normal busy schedule as Ubuntu Community Manager, work on the book and keeping the website up to date, something was [...]
One of the forces behind the Art Of Community coming together is Andy Oram, a senior editor at O’Reilly. At O’Reilly, he specializes in open source, editing the first books put out by an American publisher on Linux and such ground-breaking works as “Peer to Peer†and “Intellectual Property and Open Sourceâ€. He is [...]
I just wanted to give you folks an update on a change in the team. Isabel Kunkle who has contributed some incredible edits to Chapters 1-3 is moving onto other things. I am pleased to welcome Simon St. Laurent from O’Reilly as her replacement.
Simon St. Laurent is a computer book author and editor living in [...]
I am excited to announce another member of the team who is proof-reading the content that I am churning out in his general direction. His keen eye and expansive knowledge of Open Source is a positive influence on the book. Of course, it is Ryan Paul.
Ryan is the editor of Ars Technica’s open source software [...]
Behind the scenes, a number of people are helping make the Art Of Community as great a read as possible. This includes the editors, the O’Reilly marketing staff, people contributing thoughts and stories and more. One important group of people in this process are the proof readers. This is a set of people who I [...]