Going Public Step 4

[awodey]

Write blog posts, publish on G+, Facebook, etc.

[guillaumebrunerie]

Is uploading the book on the arXiv part of step 4?

[awodey]

no, that's step 5!

On Jun 19, 2013, at 6:10 PM, Guillaume Brunerie notifications@github.com wrote:

Is uploading the book on the arXiv part of step 4?

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[andrejbauer]

I am not sure we will succeed in uploading the book to the arXiv. Do they accept PDFs?

[guillaumebrunerie]

I think they do not accept PDFs generated from LaTeX. Do you think the book would not compile on their servers?

[andrejbauer]

We shall see.

[spitters]

They have been helpful in the past. If it does not compile, we may just ask for their help. We have tested the laTeX source on many machines already.

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We shall see.

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[awodey]

Go!

[mikeshulman]

nCafe post is up; still waiting on Andrej it looks like.

[mikeshulman]

Now how about mailing lists? I think categories and FOM were mentioned. What about constructivenews? algtop-l? Are there appropriate CSy lists?

[spitters]

I agree. For CS: coqclub, agda, types-announce

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Now how about mailing lists? I think categories and FOM were mentioned. What about constructivenews? algtop-l? Are there appropriate CSy lists?

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[awodey]

I've just sent it to FOM. Mike, would you like to do the honors for Categories?

On Jun 20, 2013, at 3:13 PM, Bas Spitters notifications@github.com wrote:

I agree. For CS: coqclub, agda, types-announce

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[andrejbauer]

May I do constructivenews?

[andrejbauer]

My G+ page looks like this:

[awodey]

by all means!

On Jun 20, 2013, at 3:35 PM, Andrej Bauer notifications@github.com wrote:

May I do constructivenews?

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[mikeshulman]

Hahaha!

hmm, I suppose we should technically also email the hott list... (-:O

[spitters]

Sure, will you include: coqclub, agda, types-announce

or shall I do it?

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Andrej Bauer notifications@github.comwrote:

May I do constructivenews?

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[spitters]

Mine is very similar. Will we have stats for the downloads of the book?

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Andrej Bauer notifications@github.comwrote:

My G+ page looks like this:

[image: hottg]https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/646599/683509/edf4520e-d9e0-11e2-804c-a8a47f85ef6b.png

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[spitters]

You should do that!

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Mike Shulman notifications@github.comwrote:

Hahaha!

hmm, I suppose we should technically also email the hott list... (-:O

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[RobertHarper]

please link my blog post this post.

bob

On Jun 20, 2013, at 2:56 PM, Mike Shulman wrote:

nCafe post is up; still waiting on Andrej it looks like.

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[mikeshulman]

Ok, sent to categories. What do people think about the algebraic topology list?

I think wordpress keeps some stats on link clicks, at least. It looks like so far we have 80 downloads.

[awodey]

alg top = yes!

On Jun 20, 2013, at 3:50 PM, Mike Shulman notifications@github.com wrote:

Ok, sent to categories. What do people think about the algebraic topology list?

I think wordpress keeps some stats on link clicks, at least. It looks like so far we have 80 downloads.

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[mikeshulman]

Hmm, somehow I forgot to include a subject line on my email to categories. Oh well. Algtop is done now too.

[andrejbauer]

My site is experiencing heavy load! I am getting about three requests per second. Where is this comming from?

[infogulch]

Hacker News says hi: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5914395

[andrejbauer]

Yeah, it seems like that's where it's comming from. I can't even get to the dashboard to check whether page caching is turned on.

[awodey]

your site seems to be frozen …

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My site is experiencing heavy load! I am getting about three requests per second. Where is this comming from?

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[cangiuli]

For what it's worth, I've also written a "more elaborate" blog post at http://www.carloangiuli.com/blog/homotopy-type-theory-univalent-foundations-of-mathematics/

[awodey]

nicely done!

On Jun 20, 2013, at 5:04 PM, Carlo Angiuli notifications@github.com wrote:

For what it's worth, I've also written a "more elaborate" blog post at http://www.carloangiuli.com/blog/homotopy-type-theory-univalent-foundations-of-mathematics/

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[andrejbauer]

Guys I am getting several visits per second on my blog post. That's thousands and thousands of people.

[awodey]

Scary! But are you sure it's not a robot or something?

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 20, 2013, at 6:50 PM, Andrej Bauer notifications@github.com wrote:

Guys I am getting several visits per second on my blog post. That's thousands and thousands of people.

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[awodey]

5,000+ views on HoTT in just a few hours.

On Jun 20, 2013, at 6:50 PM, Andrej Bauer notifications@github.com wrote:

Guys I am getting several visits per second on my blog post. That's thousands and thousands of people.

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[andrejbauer]

It's called the slashdot effect. I was listed in a popular social bookmarking site Hacker News, here.

[awodey]

a useful comment from that source:

Quibble: I downloaded the pdf, which defaults to a file called 'hott-online.pdf'. Why not Homotopy Type Theory - 1st Edition.pdf'? I download a lot of pdfs (mainly because of being a law nerd), and I am sick to the back teeth of having to rename virtually everything that I download so that I'll be able to find the filename again later. I do use Mendeley to keep my documents more-or-less organized, but what have people got against human-readable filenames? Really I ought to be able to get semantic metadata for everything I download.

On Jun 20, 2013, at 7:10 PM, Andrej Bauer notifications@github.com wrote:

It's called the slashdot effect. I was listed in a popular social bookmarking site Hacker News, here.

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[andrejbauer]

The perils of fame, this in my inbox (I redacted the personal info):

Hello,
My name is [name redacted].
I developed an interest in you.
If you have the opportunity then please send me information material or souvenirs.
I would be very grateful.
> My adress
> Ukraine
> Zhytomirs'ka oblast (Zhytomir region )
> Ovruch area
> Pidruddya
> [street redacted]
> 11116
> [name redacted]

Should I be flattered?

[andrejbauer]

31 books sold so far, about half-half split between hardcover and paperback.

[awodey]

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 20, 2013, at 7:29 PM, Andrej Bauer notifications@github.com wrote:

The perils of fame, this in my inbox (I redacted the personal info):

Hello, My name is [name redacted]. I developed an interest in you. If you have the opportunity then please send me information material or souvenirs. I would be very grateful.

My adress Ukraine Zhytomirs'ka oblast (Zhytomir region ) Ovruch area Pidruddya [street redacted] 11116 [name redacted] Should I be flattered?

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[mikeshulman]

Huh. It never occurred to me that I might not have to rename every PDF file that I download, because I have a system for naming my PDFs, and the chances are virtually nil that whoever posted a file is going to have named it in conformance with my system, regardless of how human-readable their chosen name may be.

[awodey]

good point. and really, come to think of it, hott-online, hott-letter, and hott-ebook are pretty sensible names. I think this guy just has a thing about file names in general.

On Jun 20, 2013, at 7:52 PM, Mike Shulman notifications@github.com wrote:

Huh. It never occurred to me that I might not have to rename every PDF file that I download, because I have a system for naming my PDFs, and the chances are virtually nil that whoever posted a file is going to have named it in conformance with my system, regardless of how human-readable their chosen name may be.

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[awodey]

I think we're done with Step 4.

[spitters]

@Steve: Do we want to put a note on the http://homotopytypetheory.org/frontpage? Perhaps it is time to update it a bit.

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Steve Awodey notifications@github.comwrote:

I've just sent it to FOM. Mike, would you like to do the honors for Categories?

On Jun 20, 2013, at 3:13 PM, Bas Spitters notifications@github.com wrote:

I agree. For CS: coqclub, agda, types-announce

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Now how about mailing lists? I think categories and FOM were mentioned. What about constructivenews? algtop-l? Are there appropriate CSy lists?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub< https://github.com/HoTT/book/issues/278#issuecomment-19775765> .

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[Steve]

Hi - I bet you meant to send this to someone other than me!

Good luck with your book.

• Steve Sanderson (steve on github)

[andrejbauer]

He meant @awodey.

[awodey]

good idea!

On Jun 21, 2013, at 3:17 AM, Bas Spitters notifications@github.com wrote:

@Steve: Do we want to put a note on the http://homotopytypetheory.org/frontpage? Perhaps it is time to update it a bit.

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Steve Awodey notifications@github.comwrote:

I've just sent it to FOM. Mike, would you like to do the honors for Categories?

On Jun 20, 2013, at 3:13 PM, Bas Spitters notifications@github.com wrote:

I agree. For CS: coqclub, agda, types-announce

Will you post the announcement? On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Mike Shulman notifications@github.comwrote:

Now how about mailing lists? I think categories and FOM were mentioned. What about constructivenews? algtop-l? Are there appropriate CSy lists?

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