[olug] O'Reilly User Group Support - MRE is mine!

[puzzled at home.com]

   I personally have maybe a dozen Oreilly books already and I'd be willing
to do some reviews - I am going to lay claim to Mastering Regular
Expressions first since I imagine there aren't that many people here who
have read it and there are probably a lot of budding perl programmers here
who need it.




John Kennedy wrote:

> I have contacted O'Reilly publishing about their User Group support
> program.  It appears that O'Reilly is very active in supporting User
> Groups such as ours.  They will provide the groups with free books so
> long as someone reviews the book on the OLUG web site.  Since I was the
> one to ask about it I am by default the Group Rep for O'Reilly.  I have
> currently requested the Perl CD Bookshelf, the new Managing IMAP book
> and the GIMP Pocket Reference.  They will also donate merchandise to the
> group to use for raffles, auctions, and other fund raising type things.
> All members of the group also get a 20% discount on O'Reilly stuff.
> Another benefit is  "O'Reilly offers to organize speaking engagements
> with our authors at User Group meetings or other venues, whenever
> possible".
> All we have to do for them is to place a banner on the OLUG site linking
> to O'Reilly (see http://ug.oreilly.com/banners for their banners), let
> them know when we have posted a review, and send them a copy of the
> review.
> I think this would be a great thing for the group.
> (Can you all tell that I would like to be the group librarian!!!
> Please??? I am about 1/2 way done cataloging my books (83 so far) to
> lend)
> John
> --
> John Kennedy
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> standard.
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