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Aug 27, 2020 • Mike Kanakos

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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”.

Mar 21, 2020 • Mark Kraus (markekraus)

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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! http://bit.ly/PSConfBook3CFA 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.

Jan 22, 2020 • Don Jones

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Book: "Shell of an Idea," the Untold History of PowerShell

I’ve launched a new book project, which I’m hoping you’ll support: Shell of an Idea, the Untold History of PowerShell is now available for pre-purchase at a $10 discount on Leanpub. You’ll get the initial introductory chapters right now, and when I start pumping out the main manuscript in April-May 2020, you’ll get that too. The price will rise to the final $30 after the first 100 preorders, so don’t delay too much if you want in on the deal.

Oct 4, 2018 • Don Jones

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Free (beta) eBook: PowerShell.org, History of a Community

Now available in “preview” is a new ebook, **PowerShell.org: History of a Community. ** There’s still a bit left to write, but this short (under 30 pages at the moment) ebook is designed to share some of what went into the building of PowerShell.org, the PowerShell Summit, and so on. The goal is to help those who may become involved with the organization in the future understand some of the decisions that have been made to this point.

Jul 4, 2018 • Don Jones

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The Re-Launch of the PowerShell.org Free eBooks (now in Spanish, too!)

We’re pleased to announce the re-launch of our Free eBook Store, now hosted exclusively on Leanpub. This re-launch includes 7 titles translated into Spanish by community contributor Alvaro Torres. All eBooks are free, although you can also choose to pay any amount of $5 or more, which becomes a donation to The DevOps Collective, Inc. Leanpub offers a web-based reader and, if you “buy” the book, options to download in EPUB, MOBI, and PDF formats.

May 9, 2016 • Don Jones

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Your feedback wanted! New eBook Hosting for PowerShell.org

After dealing with numerous problems from PenFlip (where our free ebooks are currently located), we’ve decided to try two new hosting providers: GitBook and LeanPub. Both of these are, or can be, based on Git/GitHub, which means the Markdown text of the book will always be open-sourced and available. Both offer conversion into PDF, MOBI, and EPUB formats, so you can download whichever you want. Both enable us to update the books at any time.

Jan 25, 2015 • Don Jones

Announcements

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.

Jan 17, 2015 • Don Jones

Announcements

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.

Jan 6, 2015 • Don Jones

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eBook Cover Contest

Fancy yourself a graphics person? Just like to doodle? We’re holding a contest to create new covers for our various ebooks. Winners will receive absolutely nothing, other than a cover credit within the text (hey, we’ll also give you a full set of the ebooks for free, what the heck). Covers must include the book title, and should include the PowerShell.org logo. The logo is below. Don’t include author names in the artwork.

Apr 8, 2014 • Don Jones

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Massive Update to All Seven Free eBooks at PowerShell.org

We’ve just finished a massive re-do of all 7 PowerShell.org free ebooks. First, they’re now hosted in a public OneDrive folder. This means you can quickly and easily view them online, download a DOCX, or download a PDF. Anytime, anywhere. Second, we’ve had folks go through and make the formatting more consistent, using a more modern font and somewhat “airier” spacing. Hopefully that translates to “nicer to read.” All the original code is also accessible, and available for one-click downloading.

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