F# Advent Calendar posts -- raise money for a good cause?
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Scott Wlaschin
Nov 27, 2016, 8:50:38 AM11/27/16
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F# Advent Calendar authors and readers, how do you feel about making an e-book from the posts and using it to raise money for a good cause?
I'd be happy to do the work of assembling the book and putting it on Leanpub or similar.
Leanpub supports some non-profits such as EFF and Oxfam directly, or we could host it on gitbook and put a button (like PayPal Giving Fund) for donations to the charity of your choice.
Any authors willing to do this? And readers, would you be willing to donate?
round crisis
Nov 27, 2016, 12:05:44 PM11/27/16
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Sounds great, A++ would book for EFF
Anthony Lloyd
Nov 27, 2016, 12:45:57 PM11/27/16
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Great idea. Thanks for offering to do it.
Riccardo Terrell
Nov 27, 2016, 2:48:01 PM11/27/16
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Great idea!
Come completely agree!
Come completely agree!
Great idea. Thanks for offering to do it.
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Rick Pack
Nov 27, 2016, 2:53:16 PM11/27/16
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Great idea!
Tomas Jansson
Nov 27, 2016, 4:19:21 PM11/27/16
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I'm not writing anything this year, but it is a great initiative.
Paulmichael Blasucci
Nov 27, 2016, 11:38:38 PM11/27/16
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I love this idea. Count me in!
Mark Seemann
Dec 3, 2016, 4:46:50 PM12/3/16
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My short answer is: yes, please use my entry with proper attribution (author, publication date, original URL, copyright remaining mine).
Slightly longer, if I may be allowed to be the cynical voice in the crowd: If money can be made off blog posts, I've been doing something wrong for the last 10 years. I don't think that raising money for a worthy cause will change this, but if I'm wrong, then the world is ever so slightly better than I think it is.
Jose Mª González
Dec 4, 2016, 6:41:33 AM12/4/16
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Yes!
And if you consider that there's some error on my writing I also authorize modifications
And if you consider that there's some error on my writing I also authorize modifications
Jose Mª González
Dec 4, 2016, 6:42:46 AM12/4/16
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Since I don't know if my email is shown I am Josesoyo
Steffen Forkmann
Dec 4, 2016, 7:56:03 AM12/4/16
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I’m in as well.
TBH I also don’t think this will make any money, but people already asked me for the ebook since the pace of the blog posts is too fast.
Basically they want to read later on vacation or something like that. I mean that’s already reason enough for a book ;-
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Greg Young
Dec 4, 2016, 8:09:01 AM12/4/16
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The other side of this will be the editing. Taking blog posts and
moving them into a book is not as easy as people may think. A lot of
work needs to be done with images, formatting of code/text and getting
all the posts into a consistent visual style. The main question should
be whether this work is worth the amount of charity that will be
brought in. (as example if this work is done say 40 hours of work and
it raises 1000$ for charity it would be better just to donate 1000$
instead of spending the time).
I think the charity ebook/dead tree version could be successful
though. IMO best would be to make it clear that 100% goes to charity
and then to put a reasonably high price on it (say $50 for a dead tree
version and $20 for the ebook of course these would be minimums and I
would allow people to pay more if they wanted).
Cheers,
Greg
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moving them into a book is not as easy as people may think. A lot of
work needs to be done with images, formatting of code/text and getting
all the posts into a consistent visual style. The main question should
be whether this work is worth the amount of charity that will be
brought in. (as example if this work is done say 40 hours of work and
it raises 1000$ for charity it would be better just to donate 1000$
instead of spending the time).
I think the charity ebook/dead tree version could be successful
though. IMO best would be to make it clear that 100% goes to charity
and then to put a reasonably high price on it (say $50 for a dead tree
version and $20 for the ebook of course these would be minimums and I
would allow people to pay more if they wanted).
Cheers,
Greg
Studying for the Turing test
Scott Wlaschin
Dec 4, 2016, 9:51:42 AM12/4/16
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Hello everyone,
The status so far:
The first 4 days are now available to download
The first 4 days are now available on GitBook at https://www.gitbook.com/book/swlaschin/fsadvent-2016/details You can download in epub, mobi and PDF. I wasn't thinking of doing a paper version at all.
I'll be adding the next four days tomorrow.
I was originally thinking of using LeanPub, which has a scheme where you can donate sales from the book to a non-profit directly.
Unfortunately, LeanPub now charges money to create a book. :(
So instead, I've put it on GitBook and have provided links for voluntary donations. If you have suggestions for other links to add, let me know.
Will it be worth it?
I don't know! I was surprised how many people wanted to download my site as an ebook, and there might be similar pent up demand for FsAdvent as well.
As to how much money it will make, if we get donations of even a few hundred bucks, I'd be happy :)
The status so far:
The first 4 days are now available to download
The first 4 days are now available on GitBook at https://www.gitbook.com/book/swlaschin/fsadvent-2016/details You can download in epub, mobi and PDF. I wasn't thinking of doing a paper version at all.
I'll be adding the next four days tomorrow.
Greg was worried that would take a long time to format, but it takes less than 15 minutes to convert a post to markdown (and only a minute or two if the post is available in markdown already!).
The posts are not going look super nice, but they should be readable.
The source for the book is here: https://github.com/swlaschin/fsadvent2016book so if you find typos, etc, I accept PRs!
The posts are not going look super nice, but they should be readable.
The source for the book is here: https://github.com/swlaschin/fsadvent2016book so if you find typos, etc, I accept PRs!
Raising money
Unfortunately, LeanPub now charges money to create a book. :(
So instead, I've put it on GitBook and have provided links for voluntary donations. If you have suggestions for other links to add, let me know.
Will it be worth it?
I don't know! I was surprised how many people wanted to download my site as an ebook, and there might be similar pent up demand for FsAdvent as well.
As to how much money it will make, if we get donations of even a few hundred bucks, I'd be happy :)
Greg Young
Dec 4, 2016, 9:54:12 AM12/4/16
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15 minutes * 30 posts = quite a bit of work :)
Its more work if there are images.
Its more work if there are images.
Scott Wlaschin
Dec 4, 2016, 10:01:53 AM12/4/16
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15 minutes * 30 posts = quite a bit of work :)
A hour every few days. Plus I quite enjoy it!
Also, I'm downloading the images as-is and not doing any processing on them, so that's easy! If it was going to be printed on paper, then yes I would take more care :)
Also, I'm downloading the images as-is and not doing any processing on them, so that's easy! If it was going to be printed on paper, then yes I would take more care :)
Greg Young
Dec 4, 2016, 10:09:56 AM12/4/16
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I think gitbook can do paper copies IIRC Pieter H was doing that.
Anthony Lloyd
Dec 4, 2016, 3:35:54 PM12/4/16
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Looking great so far!
The only minor issue I spotted on mine was an problem in the highlighting on the line '
More fine grained concurrency is possible andMakingonElf`'Thanks again for doing this.
Scott Wlaschin
Dec 10, 2016, 10:07:30 AM12/10/16
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Any typos or formatting fixes, let me know (or do a PR to https://github.com/swlaschin/fsadvent2016book)
Cheers!
Jose Mª González
Dec 12, 2016, 5:02:57 AM12/12/16
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One doubt about the license, can we personally change the license of our part?
I'd like to change the statement of copyright from my part to some copyleft/creative commons, but I am not sure if this can represent a problem to our scope of raise money for a good cause. Something like creative commons Attribution+NonCommercial should protect our rights as authors and shouldn't be a conflict with our desire to raise money.
If there's no conflict I'll probably change the sentence on github
I'd like to change the statement of copyright from my part to some copyleft/creative commons, but I am not sure if this can represent a problem to our scope of raise money for a good cause. Something like creative commons Attribution+NonCommercial should protect our rights as authors and shouldn't be a conflict with our desire to raise money.
If there's no conflict I'll probably change the sentence on github
Jose
El domingo, 27 de noviembre de 2016, 14:50:38 (UTC+1), Scott Wlaschin escribió:
Scott Wlaschin
Dec 12, 2016, 5:33:02 AM12/12/16
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Yes, of course you can change the license for your part. I defaulted to everyone having full rights to be safe.
If you want to use a CCBY license, say, just let me know, or submit a PR :)
We're not actually "selling" the book anyway, just asking for donations. The license doesn't affect anything in that respect.
We're not actually "selling" the book anyway, just asking for donations. The license doesn't affect anything in that respect.
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Scott Wlaschin
Dec 21, 2016, 11:40:37 AM12/21/16
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FYI: The eBook (https://www.gitbook.com/book/swlaschin/fsadvent-2016) is now up to date as of Dec 21st. The PDF is 476 pages!
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