ElenQ Publishing

Finished 22 / 05 / 2020
Funded!
Received
$ 1,640
Minimum
$ 757
Optimum
$ 1,838
42 Backers
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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...

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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...

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Our collective reward after Goteo's campaign is already available through our project's website.
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
25
We made it! Campaign successfully funded in Goteo thanks to lots of people ;)
April
22
We are almost there. We need you, they already supported us!
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
One week left in this all-or-nothing round. You have nothing to loose because we can do everything together.
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...

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April
02
Wow, we've doubled what we hoped for in 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
Already 20 days of campaign in Goteo and still a world ahead. Who could also help with this? (click here).
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
25
After a week campaigning, we remind you our reasons (click here).
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
23
Drop after drop, donation after donation, help us to achieve our goals (click here).
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
21
Do you know about our project? Find more info. here about who we are
February
19
100% of the minimum achieved, it's a total joy! Thank you!

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
Very close to our funding goal in Goteo, donation after donation!
Getting here has merit: 50% of the funding goal is over!

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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20% of our funding goal is over! great!

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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First few donations, thanks! :)
This campaign kicks off!