[Ubuntu Chicago] book club?

[Max Luebbe]

I'd be in.
I read a ton of books because I spend 3 hrs on CTA a day.

I'd prefer if rather than just reading Linux books all day we made it more
of a computing/nerd general book club.

Some suggestions to start:
Just For Fun (Linus Torvalds, this needs no rationale)
Cathedral and the Bazaar (Again, obvious reasoning)
Feynmann Lectures on Computing (Got this a while ago, really interesting
read by one of the smartest people in recent history)
Any Neal Stephenson/William Gibson/Phillip K. Dick

If any of the non coders wanted to pick one of the free python.org books,
I'd also be willing to work through that with the group at whatever pace we
chose to help with debugging and understanding concepts.

Thoughts?

-Max

On 3/6/07, RJ Marsan <rjmarsan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Blah. if we DID get it working, it'd be the first real project we've
> gotten off the ground.
>
> On 3/6/07, Rich Johnson < nixternal at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Eddie Martinez wrote:
> > | Ignore or delete if this is too offtopic or stupid, but talking to RJ,
> > | Freddy Martinez, sir False Courage and a few others, has led me to
> > | really want to start a book club.
> > |
> > | Perhaps not with chi-Ubuntu exculsivly, or at all, but I think it
> > | would be a cool thing to do once or twice a month. I like reading and
> > | learning, I assume most of the Ubuntu/Linux users do too.
> > |
> > | I also remember this coming up in a previous topic, during a huge
> > | swarm of emails that had 3 million project ideas.
> > |
> > | So... any takers, any supporters? any hate mail? Let me know.
> > |
> > | -Eddie M.
> >
> > I think this would be cool. Very well could be a useful tool in creating
> > a
> > stronger bond within the team as well as getting to know more people on
> > a
> > personal level. Email Oprah and ask her how she started her book club :)
> >
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