World Uniting Press launches bookShop

World Uniting Press (a division of World Uniting) is excited to announce the latest release of bookShop. (The source-code can be found here). This is a tool that we use internally to manage the creation, editing, and publishing of our authors' books and materials.

bookShop is an OSS ruby-based framework for docbook toolchain happiness and sustainable productivity. The framework is optimized to help developers quickly ramp-up, allowing them to more rapidly jump in and develop their DocBook-to-Output flows, by favoring convention over configuration, setting them up with best practices, standards and tools from the get-go. This gem is brought to you by World Uniting Press, a division of World Uniting.

We are constantly adding new features, but currently bookShop features the ability to take a DocBook format of a book and convert it to ePub (Apple iBook), pdf (Print), and mobi (Kindle) versions.

If you would like to see an example of a DocBook book that is currently in production and being published, you can look at the source for D.a. Thompson's book, Over Coffee. D.a. has released this work under the Creative Commons license.

WorldUniting.org Website Goes Live

We are very excited to announce the release of the new website for World Uniting. Thank you to our volunteers for making this happen so quickly!

Here is it http:/www.worlduniting.org

Please take a look around and let us know what else we can add.

World Uniting Incorporates

We are excited to announce that World Uniting has officially been incorporated and registered in the State of Washington as a nonprofit.

Thanks to everyone for all of their hard work!