Mary Anne Weeks Mayo was the production editor and Chris Downey was the copyeditor for Producing Open Source Software. Sada Preisch proofread the book. Claire Cloutier provided quality control. John Bickelhaupt wrote the index.
Mike Kohnke designed the cover of this book. Karen Montgomery produced the cover layout in Adobe InDesign CS using Akzidenz Grotesk and Orator fonts.
Phyllis McKee designed the interior layout and the template. This book was converted by Andrew Savikas to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Adobe's Meridien; the heading font is ITC Bailey.
The online edition of this book was created by the Digital Books production group (John Chodacki, Ken Douglass, and Ellie Cutler) using a set of Frame-to-XML conversion and cleanup tools written and maintained by Erik Ray, Benn Salter, John Chodacki, Ellie Cutler, and Jeff Liggett.