Seventh Status Report -- April 17, 2007

  • 73 people registered as wiki users
  • 969 commits (wiki updates) by 39 users
  • 16 users with at least 5 commits
  • 6 users with at least 25 commits
  • 50 sections have an author signed up (15 total authors)
  • 41 sections have at least one technical reviewer signed up (14 total technical reviewers)
  • 71 sections have at least an author or technical reviewer signed up
  • List of topics needing someone to sign up
  • approximately 89 sections have topic in progress
  • approximately 38 sections have significant content (and maybe almost finished)
  • 104 sections total -- all with concept prewritten
  • approximately 10 sections have new content that do not have an author or technical reviewer assigned
  • 22 PDF files generated
  • book is 201 total printed pages, around 190 content pages, 3 page index
  • 4426 PDF files downloaded
  • Table of Contents wiki page downloaded 3563 times

Sixth Status Report -- February 27, 2007

  • 67 people registered as wiki users
  • 934 commits (wiki updates) by 36 users
  • 16 users with at least 5 commits
  • 6 users with at least 25 commits
  • 50 sections have an author signed up (15 total authors)
  • 40 sections have at least one technical reviewer signed up (14 total technical reviewers)
  • 71 sections have at least an author or technical reviewer signed up
  • List of topics needing someone to sign up
  • approximately 88 sections have topic in progress
  • approximately 38 sections have significant content (and maybe almost finished)
  • 104 sections total -- all with concept prewritten
  • approximately 10 sections have new content that do not have an author or technical reviewer assigned
  • 21 PDF files generated
  • book is 199 total printed pages, 188 content pages, 3 page index
  • 2070 PDF files downloaded
  • Table of Contents wiki page downloaded 2405 times

Fifth Status Report -- February 8, 2007

  • 60 people registered as wiki users
  • 886 commits (wiki updates) by 32 users
  • 16 users with at least 5 commits
  • 6 users with at least 25 commits
  • 46 sections have an author signed up (14 total authors)
  • 40 sections have at least one technical reviewer signed up (14 total technical reviewers)
  • 67 sections have at least an author or technical reviewer signed up
  • List of topics needing someone to sign up
  • approximately 86 sections have topic in progress
  • approximately 33 sections have significant content (and maybe almost finished)
  • 104 sections total -- all with concept prewritten
  • approximately 17 sections have new content that do not have an author or technical reviewer assigned
  • 19 PDF files generated
  • book is 189 total printed pages, 178 content pages, 3 page index
  • 1379 PDF files downloaded
  • Table of Contents wiki page downloaded 1926 times

Fourth Status Report -- February 1, 2007

  • 56 people registered as wiki users
  • 856 commits (wiki updates) by 32 users
  • 16 users with at least 5 commits
  • 5 users with at least 25 commits
  • 47 sections have an author signed up (15 total authors)
  • 39 sections have at least one technical reviewer signed up (13 total technical reviewers)
  • 68 sections have at least an author or technical reviewer signed up
  • List of topics needing someone to sign up
  • approximately 85 sections have topic in progress
  • approximately 32 sections have significant content (and maybe almost finished)
  • 104 sections total -- all with concept prewritten
  • approximately 29 sections have new content that do not have an author or technical reviewer assigned
  • 18 PDF files generated
  • book is 187 total printed pages, 175 content pages, 3 page index
  • 1167 PDF files downloaded
  • Table of Contents wiki page downloaded 1704 times

Please sign up as a reviewer or author for unclaimed topics.


Third Status Report -- January 25, 2007

  • 55 people registered as wiki users
  • 756 commits (wiki updates) by 32 users
  • 16 users with at least 5 commits
  • 5 users with at least 25 commits
  • 43 sections have an author signed up (15 total authors)
  • 39 sections have at least one technical reviewer signed up (13 total technical reviewers)
  • 64 sections have at least an author or technical reviewer signed up
  • List of topics needing someone to sign up
  • approximately 75 sections have topic in progress
  • approximately 29 sections have significant content (and maybe almost finished)
  • 103 sections total -- all with concept prewritten
  • approximately 26 sections have new content that do not have an author or technical reviewer assigned
  • 15 PDF files generated
  • book is 168 total printed pages, 159 content pages, 2 page index
  • 914 PDF files downloaded
  • Table of Contents wiki page downloaded 1376 times

Next deadline:

  • January 31: Topic content rough draft or mostly written by January 31.

The writeathon is January 26 and 27.

Also please sign up as a reviewer or author for unclaimed topics.


Second Status Report -- January 18, 2007

  • 50 people registered as wiki users
  • 608 commits (wiki updates) by 28 users
  • 15 users with at least 5 commits
  • 5 users with at least 25 commits
  • approximately 15 people signed up as authors or technical reviewers and doing writing
  • 38 sections have an author signed up
  • 38 sections have at least one technical reviewer signed up
  • 60 sections have at least an author or technical reviewer signed up
  • List of topics needing someone to sign up
  • approximately 52 sections have topic in progress
  • approximately 28 sections have significant content (and maybe almost finished)
  • 103 sections total -- all with concept prewritten
  • approximately 33 sections have new content that do not have an author or technical reviewer assigned
  • 12 PDF files generated
  • book is 156 total printed pages, 145 content pages, only 1.5 page index
  • 620 PDF files downloaded
  • Table of Contents wiki page downloaded 944 times

Current deadlines

  • January 15: Every topic have an author signed up by January 15. Authors sign up for topic and rewrite or write introductory paragraph for topic and/or write an outline for topic by January 15.
  • January 22: Two technical reviewers sign up for each topic by January 22.
  • January 31: Topic content rough draft or mostly written by January 31.

First Status Report -- January 11, 2007

  • 44 people registered as wiki users
  • 509 commits (wiki updates) by 27 users
  • 15 users with at least 5 commits
  • 4 users with at least 25 commits
  • approximately 15 people signed up as authors or technical reviewers and doing writing
  • 27 sections have an author signed up
  • 37 sections have at least one technical reviewer signed up
  • 49 sections have at least an author or technical reviewer signed up
  • List of topics needing someone to sign up
  • approximately 32 sections have topic in progress
  • approximately 20 sections have significant content (and maybe almost finished)
  • 103 sections total -- all with concept prewritten
  • approximately 12 sections have new content that do not have an author or technical reviewer assigned
  • 9 PDF files generated
  • book as of yesterday is 118 total printed pages, 108 content pages, only 1.5 page index
  • 432 PDF files downloaded (subtracting 590 from someone's broken "Download Master")
  • Table of Contents wiki page downloaded 500 times

Next two deadlines

  • January 15: Every topic have an author signed up by January 15. Authors sign up for topic and rewrite or write introductory paragraph for topic and/or write an outline for topic by January 15.
  • January 22: Two technical reviewers sign up for each topic by January 22.