Making paper copies of the ubuntu-doc guides available

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Sat Apr 22 19:09:30 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 18:42 +0100, Jane Silber wrote:
> Hi all -
> 
> >I'm writing to ask your opinion on an idea one of the members of the
> >Documentation Team had for making published copies of the guides that we
> >are shipping with Dapper. He pointed out that we could potentially sign
> >up with a publishing company which does "pay as you go" production of
> >books. What we had envisaged was to include in the guides a link to the
> >website of such a publisher (e.g. http://www.lulu.com) from which a
> >reader could obtain a printed copy if they wished.\
> >
> Great idea!

{snip}

> No problem at all on this end.

Thanks for your support!

> Will we be able to get data back in 
> terms of how many are produced and in what languages? This isn't 
> critical, but it would be interesting and valuable data to be able to 
> assess the program and future similar efforts.

I will look into it in the next few days and see what it takes to set
this up. I would have thought that getting the data will be pretty
simple.

thanks, Matt
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