[Ubuntu Chicago] book club?

[Samir Faci]

Have you guys looked into OReilly's User Group Program?
http://ug.oreilly.com/

They send you free hardcopy for user reviews, and you keep the book in the
library.

If you're gonna read the book anyways, it doesn't take much effort to write
a 2 paragraphs review about whether you like it or not... it's a great price
compared to the retail IMO.


--
Samir

On 3/6/07, Max Luebbe <max.luebbe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> > > :)
> > >
> > > --
> > > Rich Johnson
> > > nixternal at ubuntu.com
> > > GPG Key: 0x2E2C0124
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