Hello Open Org community and stakeholders for the IT Culture Change book project.
I want to first say thank you to everyone we have talked to already, your feedback, excitement, and encouragement is making this project go very smoothly so far. And thank you to all of the authors who have agreed to contribute to the next volume in The Open Organization series--this will truly be an outstanding resource for the open source community and beyond. Bryan Behrenshausen and I will be sending periodic updates about this project when we approach certain milestones. If you would not like to receive future updates, just politely let me know (off-list), I'd be happy to remove you from this distribution. Alternatively, if you know someone who should be added, please let me know and I'm happy to add them. *Project announcement* We formally announced the project "The Open Organization Guide to IT Culture Change" (working title) today on Opensource.com. [1] The article gives a brief project description, shares links to the GitHub repository [2], and let's people know how they can contribute. We will reserve this email forum for project announcements as we reach certain milestones. If you would like to follow the work more closely, we recommend you watch the GitHub repository. *Project timeline* * March 22—Announce project publicly * March 28—Finalized table of content and author roster published * March 30—Final book outline complete * April 7—All chapter drafts due to Opensource.com team * April 15—Drafts returned to authors for revision * May 1—Final copy editing and production (layout/design) begins * May 25—Project soft launch * June 1—Project release *Project status* Green - so far, we are looking good to meet our projected timeline. Bryan and I have recruited authors for all chapters in the book except for three of them--which are open issues on GitHub. If you happen to know an author or expert we should reach out to, let us know. Of the proposed 26 chapters and other pieces of the book [3], we need to collect 13 pieces by April 7. We are halfway there and have just over two weeks to hit that milestone. All of the contributing authors are furiously getting outlines and final touches on their work. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Bryan or myself. We are committed to making this project a success and we are doing our best to follow the best practices outlined in the Open Decision Framework [4] and do our work in the open, now that the initial idea and outline has been vetted and completed. Thanks & regards, Jason and Bryan Note: All communications like this will be re-posted to the Open Org IT Culture GitHub repository. ### [1] - https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/3/announcing-it-culture-book [2] - https://github.com/open-organization-ambassadors/open-org-it-culture [3] - https://github.com/open-organization-ambassadors/open-org-it-culture/blob/master/open_org_it_culture_toc.md [4] - https://opensource.com/open-organization/resources/open-decision-framework -- Jason Hibbets, RHCSA :: Twitter: @jhibbets Senior Community Evangelist, Red Hat :: Raleigh, NC Discover an open source world -- http://opensource.com _______________________________________________ Openorg-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/openorg-list
