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Comment by Linda Nowakowski

Author: Linda Nowakowski (189)
Date posted: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:32:16 PST
Comment on: Volunteers in Editing , design and graphics, teaching will ma... (0)
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I made a plan space for you and put your list over there, Kasinja.

I think that things might happen a bit quicker if you focus a bit. You can not do everything at once.

If you want to distribute books to poor students, I would suggest that you talk to teachers and find out exactly what they need. Do a survey. Once you know what texts are needed, you can work on writing them. Once they are written, they will need to be tested.

There is little sense in focusing your time on publishing techniques, and office space and distribution techniques before you have publishable material. With a master plan though, you can whittle away at the later things in the plan but still not get totally distracted from the task at hand.

Start small. Start simple. Worry about functional and quality content and not about gold edged leather bindings (I am exaggerating....) I wrote a text for a course entitled "Technological Change and the Environment" last year. I found someone to master how to print double sided for a book (not an easy task and it certainly wasn't me who took the time to do that!) We printed one copy and then photo-copied and bound with BIG staples and tape and plastic. It was great and the cost was like $2.

Consider setting up a google account and try out google documents. It allows for editing word docs by multiple editors at the same time. Keeps a revision history as well, kind of like a wiki.

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