Debian Bullseye from Discovery to Mastery
Google+ tends to be very popular in the free software community. That’s why when Google announced that it’s now possible to create “pages” for your favorite product/company/organization/etc., we immediately wanted to try it out with The Debian Administrator’s Handbook.
Click here to discover the Google+ page for “The Debian Administrator’s Handbook”
Thanks to everybody, we managed to secure the base funding required for the translation to happen. The 15 K€ target has been reached with 380 supporters. This is really an important milestone and we’re glad to be there already.
But as initially announced, this is only the first step in this project. We really want to liberate the book and the requirement for this to happen is that the liberation fund reaches 25 K€. Out of the 15 K€ pledged so far, 8771 € have been put in the liberation fund. This means that we’re at 35% of this second target, but we’re approaching the middle of this crowdfunding campaign! So we’re a bit behind in terms of timing.
That’s why we really count on you to promote this campaign. As usual, you can share the link to your friends, blog about it, etc. But more than this, you can put some advertisement in your signature on forums, mailing lists, and so on. Here are some ready to use signatures for you:
Liberate The Debian Administrator’s Handbook:
http://debian-handbook.info/go/ulule/
Pre-order a copy of the Debian Administrator’s Handbook and help
liberate it: http://debian-handbook.info/go/ulule/
Help liberate a Debian bestseller: http://debian-handbook.info/go/ulule/
If you want, you can replace the link with one of the special links below so that a part of the money raised goes to Debian or Ubuntu. The corresponding links are http://debian-handbook.info/go/ulule-debian/ and http://debian-handbook.info/go/ulule-ubuntu/.
Thank you all!
It has taken us longer than I expected: more than a year elapsed since we announced our plans to get our French book about Debian translated into English.
But we’re now ready and we just launched the fundraising campaign on Ulule.com since that ended up being the preferred option in the poll we ran last year.
Click here to head over to our Ulule project page and make a pledge to support this project.
Roland and me are both excited by the experience. This crowdfunding project is a bit different since we actually have two targets: the first one at €15000 is the absolute minimum to make this project a reality, the second one at €25000 in what we call the “liberation fund” is the minimum required to get the resulting book published under a license compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
Since we’re lacking a good DFSG-free book about Debian, this is a great opportunity to improve the situation and bring Debian to more people thanks to this book.
On top of this, when you support this project you can select a reward that goes from a copy of the ebook to a dinner with the authors (only 10 places for the latter)! Among the other rewards, there’s obviously a paperback version of the book, but also an individual one-hour mentoring session with Raphaël Hertzog… a nice way to get you hooked as a new Debian contributor (limited to 40 persons, don’t miss the opportunity!).
Wait no longer, click here and pledge some money to bring this reference book to Debian and the rest of the world.
We also need your help to spread the news and get as many supporters as possible. Share the link with your friends, write an article on your blog, put a widget on your website, etc. Thank you very much!
Almost a year has elapsed since I announced the project on my blog. Unfortunately real life and the Squeeze release made it impossible for me to restart the project sooner.
But this time, we’re getting closer: the Debian Administrator’s Handbook has now its dedicated website: https://debian-handbook.info.
This is hopefully the start of a long journey. The next step is to setup the fundraising on ulule.com that will enable us to complete the translation of the book.
But if we want the fundraising to be a success we will have to convince a lot of people to participate. This means that we need your help to spread the news once it’s live. Do you have ideas on how to best promote the event? Do you know how to reach a large number of persons using Debian or a Debian-based distribution? If yes, please get in touch with me.
Thank you in advance for your help. Now I’m going back to preparing the marketing material for the fundraising.