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[Belinda Lopez <belinda.lopez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,
  I've outlined a basic schedule for getting to 1.0.  For authors, 
January 15 is a hard deadline for the first draft of your topic.  If you 
can't commit to that date, then we need to find someone else to cover 
that topic asap.  If you can get your first draft into me or the 
uploaded to the Bzr branch before then, even better.

Monday 12/13/2010 - IRC meeeting #quickly, 17:00 UTC - general help 
discussion
Monday 3 January 2011 - Style Guide Updated, Bzr branch ready to accept 
submissions
*Friday 15 January 2011 - First draft of each chapter due from all authors*
Monday 17 - 29 Jan 2011 - Copy editing, schedule work time with each 
author to resolve any questions/issue
Monday 31 - Second draft of each chapter due, image placeholders & 
captions for all screenshots - exception Putting it all together chapter 
can now be written
Monday 31 Jan - 5 February - Copy editing and send to Latex formatting 
experts
Monday 7 -19 February - Proofreading/QA, feedback incorporated
Monday 21 Feb - Incorporate screenshots, any other graphics, cover 
design (24 Feb-Natty Feature Freeze)
Monday 28 Feb - Final QA, formatting fixes, Branch fixes
Friday 12 March - Version 1.0 released to public
14 - 31 March - Marketing & distribution push - blogs, other online free 
bookstores

I'll work on the Style Guide and send out some general writing 
guidelines over the next few days.  I'm on holiday starting Dec. 20 and 
Canonical is closed for business from Christmas to New Year's (though 
I'll be around and check online a few times) but the goal is to have all 
the infrastructure in place and ready to start accepting your 
contributions by Jan 3.  Then I start 'strongly encouraging' and working 
with individual authors to get their pieces completed.  Let me know if 
anything seems amiss with projected deadlines.

thanks all!

Belinda

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