[Wellington-pm] New Zealand book

[Marcus Holland-Moritz]

Hi Grant,

On 2010-02-12, at 15:43:28 +1300, Grant McLean wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 01:54 +0100, Marcus Holland-Moritz wrote:
> > Hi Mongers,
> > 
> > it's been a while since my visit to New Zealand and wellington.pm.
> > I really enjoyed my stay back then (and I hope to come back!).
> > 
> > I've spent the last couple of months working on a book about my
> > trip. Of course, this work involved a lot of Perl -- but also a
> > bunch of other free tools. It feels really good to see that free
> > software is perfectly capable of keeping up with commercial stuff.
> > 
> > The book is released under a CC-BY-NC-ND license and is available
> > both as a real book and as a free PDF download.
> > 
> > So, without further ado, thank you for making my visit to
> > Wellington a pleasurable one! And I hope you enjoy my view on
> > your beautiful country a little bit...
> > 
> >   http://nzbook.mhxnet.de
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Marcus
> 
> What a beautiful book!  I look forward to sitting down and really
> getting into it.

Thanks! :)

> The colophon is a fascinating read -

Yeah, that's definitely the page for nerds and hackers... ;)

> maybe that could be a talk in
> itself on your next visit to Wellington.pm :-)

Oh, I would be very glad to do this!

> Congratulations on an visually stunning creation.

:)

Thanks && cheers,
Marcus
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