[wplug] Book published using Open Source software

[Michael Semcheski]

I've got a Slashdot account with excellent karma, but what would the
story submission be?  A friend of a friend tells me this book was put
together with OSS...  we discuss it on our LUG's mailing list at this
link.


On 8/17/07, Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:
> In response to DK <curlynoodle at gmail.com>:
>
> > On 8/16/07, Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Not a huge deal, but I know the publisher of _Triangulation:_End_of_Time_
> > >
> > > http://www.amazon.com/Triangulation-End-Time-Pete-Butler/dp/0615152805/ref=sr_1_1/102-1920268-2723344?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187301794&sr=1-1
> > >
> > > and I know from first hand experience that all the publishing work was
> > > done exclusively with Open Source software.  He used an Ubuntu system
> > > with OpenOffice for the internal layout, and Scribus for the cover
> > > layout.
> >
> > Always good to discover such uses of OSS.  Wish Amazon made that known
> > on their site.  Maybe submit to Slashdot for alittle more publicity.
>
> I don't have a Slashdot account, but I'd be indebted to anyone who
> bothers to post this for me.  :)
>
> I was going to post to Scribus and OOo lists, but neither of those
> projects seem to have advocacy@ or otherwise appropriate lists for such
> a posting.
>
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