+1, if they indeed guarantee %2 contribution to ASF.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 3:26 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Packt Book - Publish on our website? > > Also I too have high expectation, I hope they responded to the dozens of > pages of notes I sent them, lol. > > FYI I have not yet received my copy. > > Sent from my HTC > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Packt Book - Publish on our website? > Date: Mon, May 20, 2013 12:22 PM > > That's the book I was a technical advisor on. Really curious to see how it > turned out. :) > > Sent from my HTC > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "David Nalley" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Packt Book - Publish on our website? > Date: Mon, May 20, 2013 10:10 AM > > On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Joe Brockmeier <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, May 20, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Chip Childers wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> It appears that Packt has published their Apache CloudStack book [1], > >> and will be making a donation to the ASF for 2% of all sales of the > >> book. > >> > >> They asked my off list if we wanted to promote the book on our > >> website, so I'm raising this question here. I've found an example of > >> another Apache project that does this: Solr has books on their website > [2]. > >> > >> BTW - if we add the Packt book, I'd also suggest adding the book that > >> our Japanese User Group's book [3]. > >> > >> Thoughts? > > > > I'd see adding a book to the Web site as an endorsement. Are we > > prepared to endorse this book? > > > > I am a few chapters in now (I just got started this morning) Let's get a few > people to read through it first. > Kelcey was one of the technical reviewers, so I have high expectations :) > > --David
