Helping editing new Official Ubuntu Book recipes

Jono Bacon jono at ubuntu.com
Fri Sep 8 11:12:15 UTC 2006


Hi all,

I am one of the co-authors of the Official Ubuntu Book, a book available
in print and under a Creative Commons license. The book was written for
Dapper and has had a really positive reception.

Anyway, with Edgy looming, we are interested in expanding the book to
cover chunks of edgy. This edition won't go into print, but will be
distributed online and possibly be included in Edgy, depending on space
constraints on the CD.

By far one of the most popular chapters was the support chapter that
includes a large collection of recipes to solve common problems. When we
wrote the book, I made a post to the Fridge asking for the community to
submit their recipes, and the best ones would be included in the book.
This really added a lot of diversity and value to the book.

We would like to do the same for the Edgy edition of the book and we
really want to involve the doc team. The plan is to announce on the
fridge again, and submissions will probably go to Corey Burger who
ensure the submissions are looked after. Corey won't do any editing,
just keep an eye on the submissions. But, we really need some help in
getting the submissions edited. This is likely to be a tight deadline
(next few weeks) so if the documentation superstars here can help, that
would be awesome! :)

	Jono

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Jono Bacon
Ubuntu Community Manager
jono(at)ubuntu(dot)com
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