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

[Ben Barrett]

Great offer, and I'm sure the publisher would appreciate any publicity, but
it was not mentioned at all in either interaction I had with them :)

ben


On 9/12/07, Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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, a=
s well
> > > as an ongoing 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 provid=
e 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 host=
ing
> > 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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