by Zerlgi
Book: The Art of Community
September 22, 2009 in News by Zerlgi
Jono Bacon, an Ubuntu community manager, has written a book which offers a collection of his experiences and observations in building and growing communities. It’s called “The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation“. The print edition which is published by O’Reilly is expected to cost about R400 from Amazon.com. However it is available as a free download from Jono’s site www.artofcommunityonline.org. Those who attended the Software Freedom Day event in Pretoria may find it a useful resource to go along with Stefan’s presentation on “Community”. Debian founder Ian Murdock is included among key Open Source community members recommending this book.
I’m about half-way through Jono’s book at the moment and there are many great insights so a worthy download. I’m hoping to buy a copy but at R414 from Kalahari I’m holding out for a better price elsewhere.
If you’re interested in online communities it’s also worth seeing if you can get your hands on a book called “Community Building on the Web” by Amy Jo Kim. It’s about nine years old now but I still regularly dip into it for inspiration.
Alistair,
You might want to take a look at http://www.loot.co.za.
They have it for R 383.
http://www.loot.co.za/shop/main.jsp?page=detail&id=7047761082928
@leo, thanks.
I’ve just noticed that Exclusive Books has it listed at R719! Are they crazy? http://is.gd/3ylR8
@ Alastair
Yes, but if you spend R400.00 or more then you get free shipping.
Ha, they make that easy.
@magespawn
And if I wait for my sister to bring it over from the UK in December I also get free shipping
But then I’d have to wait for a few months.
I absolutely need to read the book, we are tendering for a big account that requires this so the book would a great boon (not a mills and)but where do I get the time?
Can I get a free Matrix Operator with that order?
“Hello Operator, do you have The Book?”
“Yes”
“Can I read it please?”
“Speed Reading okay?”
“Yes”
“Thanks.”