"The Debian Administrator's Handbook" is the title of the translation of the French best-seller known as Cahier de l'admin Debian (published by Eyrolles). Written by two Debian developers—Raphaël Hertzog and Roland Mas—it's a fantastic resource for all users of a Debian-based distribution. Accessible to all, this book teaches the essentials to anyone who wants to become an effective and independant Debian GNU/Linux administrator.
Given that traditional editors did not want to take the risk to make this translation, we decided to do the translation ourselves and to self-publish the result. Thanks to the crowdfunding campaign on Ulule, this is on good track. We hope to publish the book in April 2012.
But we want to go further than this, we want the result to be freely available (that is under the terms of a license compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines of course). Since we still want to earn some money for the huge work that a book represents, we decided to set up a “liberation fund”. If it reaches 25000 EUR, then the resulting book will be published under a free license.
During the initial crowdfunding campaign, 14935 EUR have been contributed to the liberation fund. Now it's up to you to help get it to 25000 EUR. Click here to visit our liberation campaign page and participate! If you contribute a minimum of 10 EUR, you'll get a copy of the ebook, no matter what happens with the liberation fund. You can see below the progress of the campaign.
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