Status of the picture book

stabus report/slight rant time now -- it looks long but please read :) 1) Blocking on release forms. I'm assured RH Legal is working on it. In the meantime if you're willing to take photos of people and have their contact information so you can hunt them down with a New and Improved Release Form then there's no reason stopping you; you just can't upload them to the wiki yet. 2) As far as I'm concerned we'll be using Lightning Source Inc. (LSI) for publishing. It'll be on-demand, woo. We've yet to make a decision on whether to print color or grayscale pages, and what page size we want (I think I'm leaning towards 8.5" square). Any objectors should reply to this email. 3) I have no clue how we're getting initial funding. I made some original contacts with gregdek and spevack but I'm so confused about it. Somebody who knows what they're talking about with relation to this (community architecture, etc) please reply to this message or to me personally. 4) The original plan of publishing four of these books at the very start seems to be getting... less and less feasible per day. Right now I'm at the idea of publishing one, 80-page book and selling that. We can get at least 200 photos in there (more than one per page). Understanding that we got about 20 or so photos from the wonderful Mo Duffy at FUDConF11, this will make the target much more feasible. 5) We've got a great number of volunteers on our wiki page[1] but we could still use more regional photographers. Keep in mind that if you own a nice camera (generally a D-SLR) and you might have extra time we'd absolutely love you to volunteer as a regional photographer. 6) Does anybody know what we do to convert bitmap images to CMYK with free software? 7) Are there any currently unanswered questions people have? [1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Picture_book -- Ian Weller <ianweller(a)gmail.com&gt; http://ianweller.org GnuPG fingerprint: E51E 0517 7A92 70A2 4226 B050 87ED 7C97 EFA8 4A36 "Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet." ~ Douglas Adams