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"Open Advice" from 42 free software contributors
"Open Advice" is a new book consisting
of essays from some 42 community authors; it is available in print form or
downloadable under the CC-BY-SA license. "This book is the answer to
'What would you have liked to know when you started contributing?'. The
authors give insights into the many different talents it takes to make a
successful software project, coding of course but also design, translation,
marketing and other skills. We are here to give you a head start if you are
new. And if you have been contributing for a while already, we are here to
give you some insight into other areas and projects."
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"Open Advice" from 42 free software contributors Posted Feb 6, 2012 21:19 UTC (Mon) by eugeniy (subscriber, #24280) [Link]
It would be great to have this in epub format. It is much easier to read on small-screen devices.
"Open Advice" from 42 free software contributors Posted Feb 6, 2012 21:41 UTC (Mon) by galah (subscriber, #52673) [Link]
There is an epub target available in the makefile. Worked for me after I added tex4ht.
"Open Advice" from 42 free software contributors Posted Feb 7, 2012 0:21 UTC (Tue) by nightrose (guest, #82769) [Link]
(Lydia here, the editor of Open Advice)
We're working on epub and other formats. Conversion is quite tricky it seems. Hopefully they're ready in the next days. I'll send announcements to the info channels mentioned on the website as soon as they're available.
Targets are available already in the make file but the result still has problems.
"Open Advice" from 42 free software contributors Posted Feb 7, 2012 4:27 UTC (Tue) by JohnLenz (subscriber, #42089) [Link] Another option besides calibre for creating epubs is pandoc. Actually the latest version was just released, and in the past few weeks pandoc has seen a huge improvement in the latex pandoc input, so you could try pandoc to convert latex directly to epub.
"Open Advice" from 42 free software contributors Posted Feb 8, 2012 10:23 UTC (Wed) by galah (subscriber, #52673) [Link]
yes - cover art is missing, and so are author names.
Content seems readable though.
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