WHOO HOO!! YAY!!
Thank you Jean, this is so cool. Good job Linda, good job Jean. I hope
the guides at Lulu are great hit. Incidentally, Friends of OpenDocument
has been a great sponsor for the OpenDocument Fellowship.
Cheers,
Daniel.
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
An exciting announcment!
Well, *I* think it's exciting. :-)
Printed copies of the OOoAuthors books "Getting Started with OOo2.0" and
"OOo2.0 Writer Guide" are now available for purchase through Lulu.com.
Getting Started: http://www.lulu.com/content/177729
Writer Guide: http://www.lulu.com/content/180466
I reformatted these books for the more common computer book size of 6x9
inches for the printed version. The interiors are printed in
black-and-white. Linda Worthington did the covers and all the work of
setting this up on Lulu. Yay, Linda!
The Getting Started book does not include all of the chapters in the
PDF, because I wanted to keep the printed version short and inexpensive.
PDFs of the extra chapters can be downloaded from the OOoAuthors or Docs
websites, as can the entire book (PDFs are still formatted for US letter
page size). Those chapters are:
* Working with the Gallery
* Getting Started with Macros
* Using Fontwork: Creating Graphical Text Art Objects
* Creating Web Pages: Saving Documents as HTML Files
The printed version of the Writer Guide includes all of the chapters
currently available in the PDF version.
When you go to the Lulu pages for these books, you will notice they are
listed as published by Friends of OpenDocument Inc. This is a group that
I (Jean) formed in Australia for the purpose of handling money raised
from sales of OOoAuthors books and other items, some of them for other
groups. (For example, Friends of OpenDocument Inc also provides the
OpenDocument Fellowship's website.) For more info, see
http://friendsofopendocument.org/
Money raised from sales of OOoAuthors books will be spent as decided by
the contributors to those books. At some point (when we actually have
some money in the account), we'll need to work out just how to handle
these decisions, but that's a topic for another thread, and probably
another day.
Linda and I are looking forward to getting some of the other books
finished so we can publish them in printed form too. That's a hint! ;-)
Cheers, Jean
--
"It's like a rainbow. Without an observer at a 23 degree angle to
the light reflecting off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no
rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a 23
degree angle to the universe. There is some new thing created at the
contact of photon and retina, some space between rock and mind."
- Zoya Boone, Red Mars
