[Eug-lug] Free open-source books from Pearson Education / Prentice Hall, from OSCON '07

[Quentin Hartman]

If we need to write reviews to maintain our "status" I'd be happy to help
out in that regard.

On 9/12/07, Ben Barrett <stircrazyben at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Howdy folks, I managed to score EUGLUG some free books for its library at
> OSCON this year.  :))
> Sorry I haven't posted about it yet, but I've not been home much since
> then.
> I'd be happy to bring some or all of these by tomorrow eve's meeting (me
> mum's in town tho, so I can't stay & play),
> or arrange delivery or pick-up of them.  Naively I'll ask, do we have a
> library listing on the website?
>
> Also, my contact from the conference asks:
>
> > I'd like to get your LUG up and running as an official member of the
> > Pearson User Group program.  This entitles your group to a complimentary
> > review copy of new open source books as they publish, as well as an ong=
oing
> > coupon and periodic special offers.
> > For starters, please designate a contact person within your group who
> > would receive the book shipments every month or so, and please provide =
that
> > person's email address and shipping address suitable for FedEx.
> >
> So, I'd be happy to be the contact person for this, but if we already have
> a group address, or if Mike wants to get them since he's been hosting
> meetings, go for it (let me know).
>
> cheers,
>
> ben
>
> THE LIST:
> Railspace: Building A Social Networking Website With Ruby On Rails, 537pp,
> by Michel Hartl and Aurelius Prochazka
> The Official Ubuntu Book, 2nd ed., 463pp (w/ 7.04 DVD), by Mako Hill and
> Jono Bacon
> Practical PHP and MySQL: Building Eight Dynamic Web Applications, 512pp,
> by Jono Bacon
> Understanding AJAX: Using JavaScript to Create Rich Internet Applications,
> 362pp, by Joshua Eichorn
>
>
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-Regards-

-Quentin Hartman-
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