Thanks everyone for joining our session last week and accommodating with our tech issues. We still got a chance to hear wonderful progress reports, and chat about the final touches leading up to release.
I’ve saved our chat transcript for anyone who’d like to refer to this conversation or see the resources shared. We saw:
- An example release announcement for Electromagnetics, Volume 2 (thanks @arwalz)
- A survey form to collect student feedback, drawn from the Textbook Evaluation Kit from LaGuardia Community College (thanks @wentworth & @allisonbrown)
- A sample Adoption Form for Electromagnetics (thanks Anita)
- Mind the Gap report that provides an overview of open source publishing platforms and tools (thanks again Allison & Amanda)
- Book promotion ideas like designing a poster (kudos @LeighKP)
I’ve added all these links to the handout for the session, along with some of the examples that I screen-shared during our call. 
There were also good questions:
- Samantha @dannick asked: “Is it worth including a note if you’re not going to include a “usual suspect”? For example, I’ve seen comments in reviews of OER that there’s no index but, as noted in the previous slide/screen an index might not be appropriate for an OER”
- @chloe.lei asked about book metadata: “Are open textbooks usually assigned DOI? Why or why not?”
- Anita wanted to find out about cover design: “How do you manage design-by-committee delays? What do you do if someone on the team doesn’t like the cover?”
If any of you weren’t able to share your thoughts on these questions during our session, please feel free to dive into them here. @alexisclifton suggested that Amanda & Allison might have thoughts on that last one particularly — let us know if so! We’d also love more ideas on how to celebrate a book’s release, be it a party, vacation, sabbatical, or something else! 
