I wanted to share an update on the ebook. Editing is going a little slower than expected, because the other volunteer editors were not available. So I'm editing the ebook on my own. If anyone has technical editing experience and wants to help, let me know.
I have finished a rough first draft of the ebook. This is a copy/paste of all the interview responses, and assembled into the ebook by question, where each interview question effectively starts a new "chapter." This should be a good way to organize the ebook. I'll write some additional commentary for each question to set a context. In "draft 2," I may also write some additional text to "weave" the responses into more of a story. But for "draft 1," this is a good start. The ebook project is here: https://gitlab.com/freedosproject/freedos28 You can find the "draft 1" ODT and PDF here: https://gitlab.com/freedosproject/freedos28/-/tree/main/draft1 You can find additional editing notes on page 2 in the PDF, describing planned edits for "draft 2." For example, the table of contents will get updated (it currently shows author names, the updated TOC will likely include just the interview questions as "chapter" titles). I AM LOOKING FOR COMMUNITY REVIEW AND FEEDBACK. Do you see any obvious errors? (I only did light editing in this draft. I'll do closer editing in draft 2 - but don't assume I'll spot errors, let me know if you see any problems.) For this round of editing and feedback, please focus on text, not formatting. If you have a GitLab account, feel free to enter issues in the project's issue tracker. Or you can email me with any fixes or edits (please use the email subject "Edits for FreeDOS-28 book" so I can keep them organized in my inbox, and so they don't get lost). ** If you responded to the interview, check that your text is correct. ** If you responded to the interview but don't see your responses in the draft, I didn't mean to ignore you. Your interview probably got lost in my inbox. Email your interview response to me again and I'll include it in "draft 2." Next step: late August to early September - second draft Goal to publish final version: mid September On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 1:45 PM Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > > Hi everyone > > I wanted to share an update on the FreeDOS 28th Anniversary Ebook. You > may remember this is the book of interviews with FreeDOS developers > and users. > > I've started a GitLab project for the ebook. You can find it here: > https://gitlab.com/freedosproject/freedos28/ > > I've uploaded plain text copies of the interviews I've received so > far. If you are interested in participating in the ebook, and > ESPECIALLY IF YOU ALREADY RESPONDED TO THE INTERVIEW, please take a > look at the project. If you responded to the interview, but you don't > see your interview listed, THAT MEANS I DON'T HAVE A COPY OF YOUR > INTERVIEW (I may have missed it in my Inbox, or it was caught by a > spam filter, etc.) If your interview isn't there, LET ME KNOW so I can > get your interview response added. > > If you want to contribute to the ebook, but haven't responded to the > interview, this is your last opportunity to do so. You can find the > list of questions in the GitLab project. > > I originally planned to have other technical editors help me with the > editing process, but that didn't work out due to timing. So I will do > the editing myself, with input from the community! I'll plan to edit > everything in the open on GitLab. > > The first phase was to get everyone's raw interview responses into > GitLab. The next phase is to organize the responses into a structure > or format. I'll do those edits in LibreOffice, which is how I'll > publish the ebook. Drafts will get posted as ODT and PDF files. > > The updated (expected) schedule is: > > July to early August - edit > early to mid August - first draft > community review opportunity > mid to late August - second draft > community review opportunity > late August - final (published) > > > Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
