Quaker calendar alternatives

September 28, 2020

John Jere­mi­ah Edmin­ster sent me a note about yesterday’s post about the demise of the Scat­ter­good Mot­to Calendar:

I had­n’t real­ized that the Scat­ter­good Cal­en­dar was ceas­ing pub­li­ca­tion. But the Tract Asso­ci­a­tion of Friends con­tin­ues to pub­lish its cal­en­dar in both the pock­et ver­sion and the wall ver­sion, each for $2 per copy and $20 per dozen, and it might be a wor­thy pub­lic ser­vice of thee to direct read­ers to the web­site, trac​tas​so​ci​a​tion​.org, so that any­one griev­ing the demise of the Scat­ter­good Cal­en­dar and won­der­ing what to do for the Friends they used to give gift-calendars to might know where else to look.

 

Tract Association of Friends

March 15, 2011

Tract Association of FriendsThe Tract Asso­ci­a­tion is ven­er­a­ble Quak­er pub­lish­er dat­ing back to the ear­ly part of the Nine­teenth Cen­tu­ry. They had a web­site but want­ed a new one built with a con­tent man­age­ment sys­tem that would allow for eas­i­er edit­ing. The new site is built in Word­Press. Befit­ting the orga­ni­za­tion’s ethos, the site is rel­a­tive­ly plain but there’s a lot going on under­neath the surface.

Many peo­ple use the site to print out copies of the tracts. There’s a spe­cial print stylesheet – cre­at­ed by the tem­plate design­er and cus­tomized by me – that means print-outs of these pages will be very clean and unclut­tered, per­fect for per­son­al pho­to­copy­ing. There’s the abil­i­ty to make tracts avail­able as PDFs through Scribd and there’s a inter­face in the Word­Press dash­board to allow embed­ding of these in the sidebar.

Quaker publications meeting (QUIP) in Indiana

April 28, 2004

Quak­ers Unit­ing in Pub­li­ca­tions, bet­ter known as “QUIP,” is a col­lec­tion of 50 Quak­er pub­lish­ers, book­sellers and authors com­mit­ted to the “min­istry of the writ­ten word.” I often think of QUIP as a sup­port group of sorts for those of us who real­ly believe that pub­lish­ing can make a dif­fer­ence. It’s also one of those places where dif­fer­ent branch­es of Friends come togeth­er to work and tell sto­ries. QUIP ses­sions strike a nice bal­ance between work and unstruc­tured time. It has its own nice cul­ture of friend­li­ness and coop­er­a­tion that are the real rea­son many of us go every year.

Quakers Uniting in Publications annual meeting in Richmond Indiana 2004.
Quak­ers Unit­ing in Pub­li­ca­tions annu­al meet­ing in Rich­mond Indi­ana 2004.