Do we have the ability and capability to publish and print hard copies of 'Land of Sky' book bilingual version ?????

Hi all Lao Story Translation project members,
Sabaidii thuk thuk khon,
 
There is a question in my head "Do we have the ability and capability to publish and print hard copies of 'Land of Sky' book bilingual version ?????"
 
Nine (9) months ago Dao and Melody approached me if I would be interested in translating 'Land of Sky' story book, and if possible to publish and print hard copies of the book.
I jumped in immediately and help to get others involved, thus our current little group of people.
We have come a long way and is poised to complete the translation very shortly. Only 3 stories (out of 22) to go, and they are at the advanced 'bilingual layout' stage. 
 
The next phase is "to publish and print hard copies of 'Land of Sky' book bilingual version".
The challenge here is funding, obviously.
We set our goal to print 1500 copies that will require approximately US$2500.
We have so far raised US$786.00 See ...
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvBZ4YtiufwRdGpEWVViX3FuYk1TRGlpdzBkQnEwN0E#gid=0
Bounthanh has approached Land Issue Working Group (LIWG, and NGO operating in Laos) and managed to get them to pledge US$1500.
So there is a shortfall of US$214.00
 
I'm taking the liberty here to approach and appeal to all our 'Lao Story Translation project members' whose names and email addresses are listed in the 'TO:' list above to make donations, and to assist us to achieve our target goal, and help our cause in ...
"meeting Lao kids' hunger for reading and learning, and supporting them to improve their education, and living conditions."
 
For your pledge, reply to this email.
 
Just imagine if each of us pledge $50! There are 32 of us. 
Alternatively you could do donation online via ...
http://bit.ly/LOTS-Donate
 
 
Regards,
Hukphaeng,
 
Luang Vannithone
https://sites.google.com/site/criticalandcreativewritinglao/the-land-of-heaven
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Somsavath,
 
Thankyou very much for your donation.
It's also nice to see PAYPAL Service works wonderfully for us.
http://bit.ly/LOTS-Donate

Luang Vannithone
CCW Support forum
 

Chareun,
 
Thankyou very much for your donation. Fantastic!
Once BT collects the money, can you ask him to let me know so I can keep our donor register updated.
 
Cheers,
 
Luang

Road to the future  ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEiSDnpXdWU
 
Luang Vannithone
 

Hi Luck,
 
Thankyou very much for your pledged donation.
Nice to see you are trying with Paypal. It's the easiest way to do online donation in our modern time with Internet and the website, and especially when we live in different countries.
 
Luang    

Hi all,
 
On behalf of the 'Creative Writing Support' or 'Lao story translation project' team, I am delighted to let you all know that we have now reached out fundraising target of $2500 for publish and print hard copies of 'Land of Sky' book bilingual version, after receiving a number of pledged and actual donations the last few days. See below. I'm heartened to see our group rising up and meet the challenge.
 
Donors                                                        Pledged                  Actual
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Somsavath  Norindr, of Melb AUS                                            US$50
Pauline Poumindr, of Syd AUS                                                     $50
Chareun Sayako, of Vientiane Laos                 $50
Inpong Hanxomphou, of Can AUS                   $50
Pomma Chantachak, of Melb AUS                                                 $50
Malithong Sinbandhit, of Syd AUS                                                $100
Dara Stieglitz, of NJ USA                                                         US$ 50   
Luck Choummanivong, of .. Canada            US$50
Lisa Robins, of Can AUS                                                              $30
 
sub total                                                     $150                      $330
 
Thankyou all for your donations.
 
As soon as the pledged $1500 from the Land Issue Working Group (LIWG) materialised Bounthanh will prepare to go full steam ahead with the publication and printing.
 
For complete listing of donations so far see ...
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvBZ4YtiufwRdGpEWVViX3FuYk1TRGlpdzBkQnEwN0E#gid=0
 
Again thankyou to all for all kind of suuport received.
 
Luang Vannithone
 

Luck,
 
OK. I'll fix the donor list. Sorry for the error.
Luang

 

Thank you to the team for great work. Anyone here know how to transfer this into ebook?

Dara

Dear Dara
I am not sure what you mean by "this" in your question below. If you refer to the donation list please note that I do not want my name to be published in the ebook. I give for my personal satisfaction, not for recognition.
Kind regards
Pomma Chantachak

Thank you to Somsavath for info about ebook.

Pomma, Information is to possibly eventually place this book on Amazon for passive income for future printings of other translations.

Dara

Thank you for update!!

Can we get this translation into Google system as well? Dara

Dara Stieglitz

Hi (and Sabaidii) all,

You must be wondering - where the project is up to?
The final editing task is completed. Thanks to Aaron Percy and Bounthanh. We/Bounthanh have now ordered printing of 1500 copies of the book. See attached the receipt for the 1st payment of US$1000, to the printing house. We will settle the remainder of US$3150 the next two weeks (a total cost of US$4150).
 
 
"All of us have been working very hard for many months. So we must be proud of our product. I really appreciate the contribution from all of you. We cannot get stuck here; we have go ahead with another project.

 

Cheers, Hukphaeng

Luang Vannithone

 

Creative Writing Support team