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SIGIA-L Mail Archives: Re: SIGIA-L: The Book Idea
Re: SIGIA-L: The Book Idea
From: Edward M. Housman (emh_at_mitre.org)
Date: Fri Apr 21 2000 - 09:00:00 EDT
Craig. You just volunteered to be our book architect. Please proceed
flank speed to mobilize all the people who have expressed interest,
including myself. I would say a written proposal is the first step.
Let me know if I can help. Candy and Dick can probably help us find a
suitable publisher.
--Ed
craig_battrick_at_hp.com wrote:
>
> Wow! What a response!
>
> Give me the weekend to put together some thoughts on how to proceed with
such an
> undertaking. As a book publisher (I've done five), I can say that the
mechanics
> of book production are relatively easy. As some of you pointed out,
organizing
> the information is the tricky part. But that's what we do for a living,
no? In
> my current job at HP, I work with teams of engineers to create books. They
range
> from 100 to 250 pages in size and many of them have to do with best
practices.
> All this to say that I see no problems in doing this, just a lot of
effort. And
> think about a year or so as the length of the project.
>
> And yes, I was seeing myself as the organizer of all this since project
> management is also something I do.
>
> So... stand by for more thoughts.
>
> Craig
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