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December
06
Website published - Campaign finished
The website is published and the books are sent a while ago so it's time to consider this done.
We'd like to thank everyone who took part on the campaign in way way or another, and those who supported us during this hard year.
We'd also like...
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November
13
Shipping: last round
The last round of the shipping is planned for this week so we are almost done.
Next weeks we'll spend time on ElenQ Publishing's website that will be available at https://publishing.elenq.tech and will be built with simple and accessible...
November
03
Shipping - Round 1
First round of national shippings has being completed successfully.
Next days the rest of the packages will be sent and my living room will not have any box full of books.
The international shippings are going to be delayed to the last round...
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October
16
Final sprint
These weeks have been hard. The printing, the paperwork, the pandemic and all the problems associated with it... but at finally the books are printed and we managed all the paperwork to make them available.
Next days we'll contact all the backers...
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September
25
In the printers
Short but good news today: The books have been sent to the printers to make the first printing tests. They'll be available pretty soon.
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September
01
Final paperwork
We are working in the last steps of the paperwork. We are already working on the ISBN and we will start the paperwork for the Legal Deposit as soon as we have the ISBN.
Once we have both of them the books will be sent to the printers.
This means...
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August
12
Almost there
In this weird times of vacation and pandemic we can already say we are near to the first milestone: send the books to the printer.
Books are being revised for external people so in next days we'll get a list of corrections to apply and well send...
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July
21
Updates
Hi,
Sorry for the delay since the latest update, but these weeks have been hard for everyone for obvious reasons.
We prioritized some other pending tasks we had because we considered they were good for the future of the campaign and the live...
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May
29
Book generation is in the way
It have been a really tough week.
We are working on an independent course that can become an ElenQ Publishing publication someday and it has drained many of our energy and time.
On the other hand, some of the tools we use everyday needed some...
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May
22
Goal achieved!
Thanks to everyone that took part in the project, we reached the minimum goal.
Sadly, we didn't reach the optimum goal, so English translations won't be available but we received enough funds to make the project happen and also think a little bit...
April
28
Programming in Python: Translated to Galician
The power of Creative Common licenses and the community is that if someone publishes something useful others can use it and even improve the original. That happened these days.
The people behind bricolabs.cc translated our...
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April
19
First printing test for the cover
Finally, locked at home we have been able to make the printing tests for the covers.
The material is soft to the touch and has a slightly glossy finishing on the black secions.
We consider the test a success. Text is sharply rendered in every...
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April
18
April
05
Working on the web version
As everything is stopped due to the current health crisis that the world is facing, we are working on the web version of the books.
There's a lot of work to do because there are many conversions to make and everything must be created...
April
02
¡Wow, hemos doblado lo que esperábamos obtener en Goteo!
March
17
Status report
You already know there's a global pandemic. You may not be aware that Spain is under a 15 day quarantine that is making everything go slower. Being under quarantine doesn't affect our performance as long as we have a computer and internet connection...
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March
10
Printing tests begin
As we said in the past, we are working in the covers. We already finished configurable templates for them and we are in contact with the printing service to make the first printing tests.
You'll be notified as soon as we have more information...
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March
09
March
04
Contents (WIP) freed
We still have a long run until the end of the campaign but as we hate to leave the work for the last day we published all the contents of the books in our repository:
https://gitlab.com/ElenQ/Publishing
Keep in mind all the repositories are...
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February
28
Helpful paperwork
As we already got the minimum goal for the project we started the paperwork to become officially a publishing house. It's just simple paperwork but it's really helpful for the goals of the project.
Being a publishing house we can get a ISBN...
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February
24
Automaton and tools
While waiting to reach that optimum goal that will let us translate our contents to English, we are working on the automaton of the covers, spliting the content from the view in order to configure specific printing details automatically.
For...
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February
22
For the optimum, first steps
We are near from reaching the optimum goal and meanwhile we are working hard trying to put something more in the campaign.
We are studying other formats (epub) and we are working on the covers.
The covers were designed by the great designer...
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February
19
100% del mínimo superado, toda una alegría… ¡Gracias!
What to say...
We achieved the minimum goal in 25h since the campaign started (yesterday).
Now we have 79 days to focus in the optimum goal.
We didn't have the time to show the contents of the books or introducing new formats. We'll do it soon.
Just wanted...
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February
18
Muy cerca del objetivo en Goteo, ¡aporte a aporte!
Llegar hasta aquí ya tiene mérito: ¡50% de recaudación superado!
50% completed
Should I believe what I see?
We achieved the 50% in 10 hours. This is great.
Thank you everyone for taking part in the campaign.
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Superado el 20% del objetivo de recaudación en Goteo, ¡bien!
Campaign starts
The campaign just started and we already have some contributions. We hope to get all the funds on time but if we keep this speed we surely get them.
We wrote a long post about our thoughts and feelings about the prject as a presentation for our...
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Primer par de donaciones, ¡gracias! :)