Last copies of Joe Armstrong's thesis

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Richard Carlsson

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Nov 28, 2020, 1:55:51 PM11/28/20
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Hello, all Erlangers!

I've got a dozen original copies of Joe Armstrong's PhD thesis books, "Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors" (2003), the last of his personal stash when he passed away.  They were handed to me by his wife Helen to distribute in a suitable way, and we decided to offer them to the members of the Erlang community, for a symbolic sum.  These are paperback books, unread, about 280 pages in length, weighing just over 500 grams.

The books are available on a first-come-first-served basis, for a basic price of $25 plus postage from Sweden, which should amount to between $10 and $30 depending on your country. Just reply to this mail if you want one. Please keep in mind that I have no idea how many people will respond to this, and that only 12 copies are available. I will post again when they are all gone.

The proceeds will be donated to the Sonic Pi project that Joe was a contributor to. Note that for practical reasons I can only accept PayPal for payments from outside Sweden.

        /Richard

eric koorn

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Nov 28, 2020, 2:46:01 PM11/28/20
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Hello Richard,

I would like to have a copy of Joe's thesis.

Regards Eric
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Duncan Paul Attard

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Nov 28, 2020, 2:51:32 PM11/28/20
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I would like a copy as well please!

Duncan Paul

Richard Carlsson

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Nov 28, 2020, 2:52:12 PM11/28/20
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Thank you everyone! That went quick! I've already had more replies than there are books. 

        /Richard

Reza Nikoopour

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Nov 29, 2020, 1:56:42 AM11/29/20
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Is this available online as well?

If not Will there be anyway to turn this into a published copy that could be purchased?

Torben Hoffmann

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Nov 29, 2020, 2:03:03 AM11/29/20
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That's a very good idea. I have read it nnd would like a physical copy of it.

Cheers,
Torben
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Roberto Aloi

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Nov 29, 2020, 2:33:57 AM11/29/20
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The digital version is already available at erlang.org:

Richard Carlsson

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Dec 2, 2020, 5:07:45 AM12/2/20
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Just to let everyone know - many of the buyers donated additional money, and in total we raised just under $800 to the Sonic Pi project. A big thanks to all of you - this couldn't have gone better.

        /Richard

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