FYI. This company publishes books about open source applications. Rashmi's area is security, but if there is an aspiring uPortal book author out there, I'm sure he would pass a proposal on to the appropriate editor. :-)
-Jonathan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rashmi Phadnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:17 AM Subject: Re: A book on Backtrack? To: Jonathan Markow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sure. It would be great. Jonathan Markow wrote: Hi Rashmi- Actually, I am not at all active in the Backtrack community--am not sure how you got that impression. However, I am executive director of JA-SIG, a global consortium of higher education institutions that sponsors open source software projects (www.jas-ig.org). For example, we are sponsors of uPortal and CAS (Central Authentication Service). If you are interested, I can invite some of our community's leaders to propose book topics to you. -Jonathan On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:40 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jonathan > > I am an acquisition editor for Packt Publishing ( > http://www.packtpub.com/aboutus) working on Security. > Packt publishes a range of books, with a particular focus on Open Source > tools. We pay authors in the form of a royalty and an advance against that > royalty. Our royalty offers are much higher than most tech publishers. We > also support open source projects through an Open Source royalty. This means > that when we publish a Joomla book, the Joomla project will receive a share > of the book's revenue. > Unlike other publishers, who publish titles that aggregate technologies and > often cover more than what the reader would need, Packt publishes focused > titles each of which targets a smaller market and cater for more specific > needs. Most of our titles are therefore 200-300 pages, although we publish > larger books if required by the topic. As an example of our "focused > publishing," we have published a book on building websites with Drupal that > does not include any coding, another book that focuses on developing themes > for Drupal, a third that focuses on Drupal modules, and other titles which > you can see on our website. Another publisher that publishes broader books > would have probably lumped all of these together in one title. > We are currently in process of developing a book on Backtrack. I saw that > you are very active in the Backtrack community and would like to call you on > board to write this book. Please let me know if this sounds interesting to > you. You can contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Of course, if you like the sound of writing but you believe there are other > topics that you would be better suited to write about then please let me > know. I'm always on the look out for new ideas, especially Security topics. > I look forward to hearing from you. > > Thanks > Rashmi > > > > -- You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
