> 5. Dipankar-da's (Prof Dipankar Das of Jaipuria College, Econ Dept) has > completed his 250+ page book in Bangla on GNU/Linux entitled "GNU/Linux > Ishkool" quite sometime back. The book is a 10-chapter tutorial-text, > written in a most informal and fun manner originally written to be a > teaching aid for the GNU/Linux Thek (GLT) initiative of ILUG-Cal. > > Currently we are actively looking out for a sponsor to foot the cost of > publishing the book as hard-copy in a first edition print of 1000 > copies.
what will it cost ? > profits, if any, should go towards nuturing nascent Opensource > initiatives in India, either through ILUG-Cal or FSF India or both. what are the commercial figures ? if there ARE profits, it normally means AFTER recovering the cost of publishing/printing .. which in turn means that the sponso 'to foot the cost of publishing' would get back the money he puts in .. and the EXTRA amounts recovered thereafter would be the 'profits' which would go to 'nurturing' .. am i right in this conclusion there are a few humble requests from me .. 1. will this good work be allowed to be 'published' in an 80mm cd format .. 100 copies .. and be allowed to be freely copiable ? then any person looking for name and fame can fund it .. if no one picks up the tab .. well i am always ready and willing to be the 'supporter of last resort' of good things .. and would pick up the tab .. c'mon guys .. volunteer and get associated with being remembered in history .. i am NOT wanting to be THAT one .. i'd love to watch someone be that ONE who did this ! 2. will this good work be allowed to be put on websites for freely downloading and passing on to interested people ? 3. will this good work be free in the same way as linux ? ..pk -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
