Free Official Ubuntu books for Approved LoCo Teams

[Neal McBurnett]

Great idea - thanks!

But using a wiki for authentication is an awful idea, not one we want
to promote to either the locos or the publishers.

How about using the launchpad team owner instead?

How about getting the launchpad folks to write a little app with their
api to do this in a way that wouldn't even require much approval or
checking by the publisher?

Then we could build yet more collaboration on the same building
blocks.

Neal McBurnett                 http://neal.mcburnett.org/

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:59:15AM -0700, Jono Bacon wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Recently I have been talking to Prentice Hall, the rather spanky-awesome 
> publishers of The Official Ubuntu Book 
> (http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0137021208) by Mako, 
> Matthew Helmke and Corey Burger, and the brand new Official Ubuntu 
> Server Book (http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0137021186) 
> by our friend and yours, Kyle Rankin and Mako. These books were 
> commissioned by Debra Williams-Cauley who has been awesome getting them 
> on the shelves, and her sidekick is one Heather Fox who I have been 
> chatting with recently to see if we can score some free copies for our 
> rather fantastic Ubuntu LoCo Teams. Fortunately, Heather has been able 
> to make the magic happen.
> 
> Prentice Hall are happy to send each and every *approved* LoCo team one 
> free copy of *The Official Ubuntu Book* and one free copy of *The 
> Official Ubuntu Server* book. To be entirely clear: this is one copy of 
> each book per team. This will be a great addition to each team's library 
> of Ubuntu books!
> 
> To keep this as simple as possible, you can request your books by 
> following these steps:
> 
>   1. The team contact shown on our LoCo Team List 
> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamList) (and only the team contact) 
> should send Heather Fox an email at *heather DOT fox AT pearson DOT com* 
> and include the following details:
>    * Your full name.
>    * Which team you are from.
>    * Your full address (including zip/postal code, region and country).
>    * Your phone number, including country and area code.
>   2. Heather will process your application and let you know if it is 
> approved.
>   3. If approved, she will get your books in the post.
> 
> A few notes:
> 
>   * Only approved teams are eligible for the free copies of the books.
>   * Only the team contact for each team (shown on 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamList) can make the request for the book.
>   * There is a limit of one copy of each book per approved team.
>   * Prentice Hall will cover postage, but not any import tax or other 
> shipping fees.
>   * When you have the books, it is up to you what you do with them. We 
> recommend you share them between members of the team. LoCo Leaders: 
> please don't hog them for yourselves!
>   * The deadline for getting your requests in **Wed 12th August 2009**.
> 
> If you have any questions or queries, *don't* contact me or Canonical, 
> contact Heather Fox at *heather DOT fox AT pearson DOT com*.
> 
> Also, for those teams who are not approved or yet to approved, you can 
> still score a rather nice 35% discount on the books by registering your 
> LoCo with the [Prentice Hall User Groups 
> Program](http://www.informit.com/usergroups).
> 
> All in all a pretty sweet deal, methinks. Enjoy!
> 
>      Jono
> 
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