I just wanted to throw a quick update your way regarding the [Art Of Community](https://www.artofcommunityonline.org/) book that I am feverishly working on.
On Tuesday last week I threw out a deliberately [cryptic announcement](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2009/01/13/announcement/) about a new project. In the announcement I displayed a motion blurred screenshot of what we now know as the [Art Of Community](https://www.artofcommunityonline.org/) site. Amusingly, the announcement turned into a bit of a technical challenge for some, who tried to unblur it. Most failed, but one clever bugger in the form of Kyran [managed to sharpen it](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2009/01/13/announcement/#comment-129054), revealing the name of the site which he then Googled and added the URL. Great work, Kyran! This happened about 30mins before I was due to announce while I was writing up the main announcement text.
Anyway, [up went the main announcement](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2009/01/14/the-art-of-community/) and the response has been fantastic. It also picked up rather nice press over at [Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2009/01/15/jono-bacon-announces-cc-licensed-book-project) and [OSTATIC](https://ostatic.com/blog/building-an-open-source-community-help-is-on-the-way) and across a bunch of blogs. There was also a great [write up at the Creative Commons](https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12199) who are obviously rather happy with the fact that the book is under a [CC-NC-SA license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/). Thanks to everyone for your kind words. Oh, and Facebook fans, go and be a fan of the [Art Of Community Page](https://www.facebook.com/pages/Art-of-Community/58251029357). 93 fans at the moment. Rock and Roll.
I am also really pleased to see that the [Art Of Community](https://www.artofcommunityonline.org/) website has been building a community. Each post has been getting a nice amount of discussion kicking off, and I am looking forward to the community continuing to prosper. Thanks to this first generation of community members in *Florian, JoshPanter, amaneiro, Marco* and *Blaise Alleyne*!
Work on the book has been progressing well. Today I finished up Chapter 5 and sent it off for editing. I have been interview content from [Ton Roosendaal](https://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/01/17/ton-roosendaal-contributing-content/) of Blender and [Cristina Verduzco](https://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/01/18/cristina-verduzco-spca-interview-content/) of the East Bay SPCA with more on the way. Now it is onto Chapter 6.
Stay tuned, folks!
