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+# Urban Camping Pro - Guide
+
+Urban camping pro is a survival guide for professionals living
+the VanLife and unhoused / homeless people alike.
+
+It focuses on the foundational activities to life off grid
+within an urban environment, which can form the basis of a
+system of habits that lead to growth beyond one's present
+circumstances in an energy efficient manner.
+
+The laws governing camping and giving apply.
+
+## State
+
+This is the second draft.
+
+The sections were directly copy and pased from the PDF into 
+Mardown files on 2022-05-16.
+
+The Markdown hasn't been formatted and tables and images
+need to be linked in. It was literally a copy and paste job
+which itself took about a half a day.
+
+The file-per-section source layout makes it easy for people to
+concurrently edit and own parts of the work.
+
+The largest change from the first draft is that much of the
+material not directly related to satisfying Layer 1 of Maslow's
+hierachy of needs has been omitted to be the basis of a dedicated
+work.
+
+## Direction
+
+The original draft was written in LibreOffice over aobut 6 weeks, 
+and edited on a few occasions over the next year.
+
+From converting it to Markdown we can accept pull requests and 
+translate it into the LibreOffice work easily.
+
+The next step is to adopt something like Pandoc to compile the e-book
+directly as PDF for print, HTML for web, and Mobi/ePub for Kindle 
+and similar.
+
+The material cut between the first and second draft will go into another
+resource titled to the effect of "Doing Business While Homeless."
+
+## Contribution
+
+For now we can accept a pull request against the markdown file, 
+or an email with the changed sections to the address listed on
+[the website](https://harlanji.com/urban-camping-pro).
+
+In terms of financial contributions, a Venmo gift to harlanji helps
+greatly.