PowerShell Conference Book Volume 3 Call For Authors
EDIT: We have extended the CFA to May 25th!
The _ PowerShell Conference Book Volume 3 _ Call for Authors (CFA) is now open!
The timeline for this process should be as follows:
Close submissions on Monday, May 4th, at 11:00 PM PDT
Notify everyone by May 25th
Final drafts will be due by June 1st
Finalize publication by September 30th
We are looking for one chapter per author on the topics of PowerShell, DevOps, WinOps, Open Source, or IT Careers. Topic depths can range from novice to expert. Chapters can be technical or cover cultural aspects. Authors can be new or well established. The book will be written in American English, but non-native speakers are welcome (our editorial team will support you)!
You may submit up to 5 chapter proposals in the CFA, but we will choose only one (1) chapter per author. Chapters will be selected based on the contents of the abstract. The more information and clarity you provide about your chapter, the better chance we will choose it over vague abstracts on the same topic. Submitting multiple abstracts will help in case someone else submitted an abstract on the same topic. You may return the form and edit it as many times as you like until the close date.
Published authors will receive one (1) free e-book copy. We will attempt to provide one (1) at-cost physical copy but can make no advanced guarantees.
About Volume 3
_ PowerShell Conference Book Volume 3 _ furthers the traditions of Volume 1 and Volume 3 by acting as a “conference in a book.” It will contain all-new chapters and is not just a new edition of the previous volumes. A different author will write each chapter. Topics will cover PowerShell, DevOps, WinOps, Open Source, or IT Careers. The authors will be a mix of well-known PowerShell community members, new faces, bloggers, authors, trainers, and presenters.
Everyone has something to share that everyone can learn from!
** 100% of proceeds ** will go to the OnRamp scholarship program . The editors and authors will only be compensated with a complimentary e-copy of the book. The true payment will come in the authors and editors knowing that the knowledge they shared has helped not only those they shared it with but to new and diverse professionals awarded OnRamp scholarships!
About the Editorial Staff
For Volume 3, Mark E. Kraus will act as Editor-in-Chief with support from Senior Editor Michael Zanatta. The rest of the editorial staff includes Phil Bossman, Christian Coventry, Justin Gehman, Joe Houghee, Steven Judd, Bill Kindle, Adil Leghari, and Arnaud Petitjean.
We learned our lessons from Volume 2 and have increased our editorial staff. This increase should help us compress our timelines so we can publish sooner and start supporting the OnRamp program even earlier!
We look forward to reading your submissions at http://bit.ly/PSConfBook3CFA!
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The PowerShell Conference Book volume 3 is here!
The third edition of the PowerShell Conference Book is now available and on sale at the discounted price of $19.99. But you need to hurry because the discounted price is only available until Friday evening!
What is the PowerShell Conference Book?
The book is designed to be a representation of what it’s like when you attend a conference. Traditional books have a singular topic, such as “Windows Server 2019” or “Mastering Ansible”. But this book is not geared towards a single topic. Instead, much like a conference, it’s a collection of ideas all focused around a general theme. All the chapters are related in some way to PowerShell and DevOps.
The book contains over 20 different chapters, each written by a different author. The authors of the book are community members and subject matter experts who have graciously donated their time and knowledge for a good cause. Each chapter is similar in length and focus to what it would be like if you attended a conference and listened to the author present their topic to a live audience, except now it’s in written form. Imagine if you were able to capture those sessions and lock them into a format that you could refer to over and over again. It’s a conference in a book format!
PowerShell.org Free eBook Transition
Over the past few weeks, Matt Penny has been busy moving our free eBooks into their new home on Penflip. Code, when available, is located in our GitHub repo, and modules will soon be available in the PowerShell Gallery for downloading via Install-Module.
Penflip is a Markdown-based editing system backed by GitHub. This means anyone can contribute corrections, additional material, and so on - which will make it easier to maintain these great books over time. You can download ebooks directly from Penflip in a variety of e-book formats. We’re now focused on electronic formats, rather than traditional page-based layout, although PDF is still an available download option if you want to make a hardcopy.
The conversion from Word to Markdown was challenging and largely manual, so if you run across formatting problems (especially with code), we absolutely appreciate your help in fixing those. Simply “branch” the book, creating your own copy of the project. Make corrections, and then submit those back to the master branch. Approvals are manual, so give us a few days to review what you’ve done and merge it into the master.
Massive thanks to Matt for all the long hours making this conversion happen, and to the folks who’ve submitted cover art for the new books.
Our eBook Transition – and Your Chance to Contribute!
We’re in the process of migrating our free ebook collection over to Penflip, an online, Git-based collaborative authoring and publishing tool. Matt Penny has taken the lead in converting our Word documents to the Markdown syntax used by Penflip, and as you can see on our ebooks page, most of the titles now have an initial version in Penflip.
One neat thing about Penflip is that anyone can register for a free account, fork one of our projects, and make their own modifications. You can then submit your changes back to the master branch, so we can incorporate your changes into the ebook. This will make it easy for everyone in the community to suggest new content, offer corrections, and so on. I encourage you to help out - right now, you may simply notice some flaws from the semi-automated and fully hellish Markdown conversion, and we’d love your assistance in correcting those.
Penflip also supports on-demand downloads of each ebook in a variety of common formats, including EPUB, PDF, and more. That means you’ll always be able to grab the latest version of your favorite ebook. We’ve not yet migrated the source code that goes with some of the ebooks; the plan is to move those into our GitHub repo over the next week.
Penflip will be enabling the next generation of our ebooks, including a massive new DSC title I plan to begin working on in 2015.
Thanks for any help you can provide, and I hope you continue to find the ebooks helpful!