can words change worlds?
In October 2016, we tested an idea: can a group of conference attendees coauthor a book on software testing, in the span of a day?
The Book on Software Testing, Volume 1 is now available via leanpub, a creative platform for authoring and publishing ebooks. With leanpub, readers can set their own price above the publisher-set minimum price (in our case $0), while publishers can direct their royalties to a selection of cause(s).
Given that we crowdsourced this volume just outside of Johannesburg during the Let's Test South Africa conference, and given the project's aim to increase the software test professional's expression through the letters, we chose to direct 100% of our royalties to a charity promoting literacy in South Africa.
Shine Literacy aims "to improve literacy outcomes for young children from disadvantaged communities in South Africa."
All that's left is one more test. (There's always one more test, isn't there?) Test how much we can raise for this charity through the sales of a crowdsourced book retailing ...for free.
Just one more test.
Since 1993
so let's test this idea
Visit leanpub.com to obtain your copy. Let's illustrate, as Shine Literacy aims, that words can change worlds!