Here is another update on the progress of the cookbook.

Recipe’s

We’ve gotten tones of recipes, keep posting them to the wiki. I’m going to start editing them this weekend and e-mailing people with requests for clarification. For instance I already did this with Adam Schreiber’s Plain Yogurt recipe. In it he mentioned keeping the yogurt at 110 degrees Fahrenheit so I asked him to describe in detail how and why this step is needed. For that he produced the incubator and yogurt science section which fit in really nice with the theme of a cookbook for people who like to tinker and find out how things work. I’m not going to ask that of all the recipes but I may ask for elaborations or clerifications. Please be timely with replys as we have two weeks after this weekend to have something in a publishable state (yikes!!!). One thing I will ask everyone to do is give their recipies a “title”. In other word, make my mouth water with the name of the dish. We can always put a common name next to it to make it clear what it is but food is as much about presentation as with taste. As we say, you eat with your eyes first. If your native language is something other than English then show it off.

Layout

Three people have submitted excelent layouts. There is room for more though I am not so worried about this aspect as I was a few weeks ago. There is still time to enter the design contest. Entries are due by the end of Sunday.

Cover Art

No one has sumbitted anything yet. I am getting a bit worried here. The contest may need to be extended, hopefully not up to the day we publish.

Cash from Book Sales

Though I don’t expect a windfall from sales of the book, if the cost to publish the book is reasonable enough we may wish to charge a small markup which would go to GNOME and be earmarked for promoting such projects in the future. I will have to talk to the GNOME Foundation about it and see what they think. It is hard to say without knowing how much money will be brought in but it could go to simple things like buying books for raffles at confrences or large thing such as buying studio time for the Drooling Macaque to record a GNOME song. The PDF itself and sources will be free with a suggested donation.

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