Hi all! Happy New Year! As I was writing, I decided to turn a few early chapters (plus the intro and proposed outline) into a small (38-page) ebook of its own <https://changeset.nyc/resources/getting-unstuck-sampler-offer.html>, which I launched a few days ago.
> *Who this book is for and what you should get out of it:* > You are about to get an open source project unstuck. > Maybe a bunch of work is piling up in the repository and users are getting worried, waiting for a release. Maybe developers have gotten bogged down, trying to finish a big rewrite while maintaining the stable release. Maybe the project's suffering for lack of infrastructure — testing, money, an institutional home. > You noticed the problem. So that means it's up to you to fix it. Or you're getting paid to fix it, even though you didn't start this thing. > A while ago I blurted out the phrase "dammit-driven leadership." Because sometimes you look around, and you realize something needs doing, and you're the only one who really gets why, so you say, “Dammit, okay, I'll do it, then.” The sample has: * Introduction (including my controversial? "Basic assumptions about open source and the tech industries") * Conducting a SWOT analysis (assessing a project's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, with example analysis of the pip project) * How to start thinking about budgets and money (including two exercises) * Teaching and including unskilled volunteers (with twelve specific tactics) * An outline of the full forthcoming book Right now, people have to subscribe to my email newsletter <https://buttondown.email/Changeset> to get a copy, to help me gather data about audience numbers. The license is CC BY-SA and I will likely bring this out from behind the subscribewall once I have a new edition that can have a "the full book is coming on [date] from [publisher]!" line. (This week I'm working on the book proposal and I'm thinking about O'Reilly, Apress, Stripe, No Starch, Pragmatic Bookshelf, Taylor & Francis, and maybe Wiley, plus of course the self-publishing option/Leanpub; I welcome your contacts, experiences, introductions to editors, etc.) Let me know off-list if you want a copy but really do not want to be on my "1-10 times per year" email newsletter - I can give you PDF, ePub, and/or MOBI. On Sunday, February 02, 2020, at 8:48 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > If you're interested in reviewing my outline or chapters as I write them and > giving feedback then I welcome off-list replies. If you merely want to say > "yes! please write this book! here is how/where I want to use it!" then I > welcome replies on-list (which will help me prove the market to publishers). > :-) This is all still true! -Sumana Harihareswara ------------------------------------------ This list is for the purpose of general discussion about The Carpentries including community activities, upcoming events, and announcements. Some other lists you may also be interested in include discuss-hpc, discuss-r, and our local groups. Visit https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/ to learn more. All activity on this and other Carpentries spaces should abide by The Carpentries Code of Conduct found here: https://docs.carpentries.org/topic_folders/policies/code-of-conduct.html The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T1a0d4bfdb582b443-M5b1b14e37bb275b9e5208bd9 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
