[CoLoCo] Free ubuntu books

[Brian Fromme]

I second that.  Good idea, Neal.

 Brian

On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 17:27 -0600, Neal McBurnett wrote:
> As you suggest, one fine option is to parcel out the two free books at
> the release party.
> 
> But with another hat on, I'll throw out another charitable option.
> I'm sitting here at KGNU (88.5 FM, 1490 AM), the cool non-profit
> community radio station where I'm a volunteer, which has a growing
> list of ubuntu servers that I've helped set up.
> 
> I'd love to put the server book on the rack here for the folks that do
> administration on the machines here :)
> 
> It probably wouldn't get a ton of use, but in a crisis it would be
> great.
> 
> Neal McBurnett                 http://neal.mcburnett.org/
> 
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:36:15PM -0600, NICK VERBECK wrote:
> > Also as I somehow spaced out the Install Fest being last weekend. I
> > still have those 2 books that need to be awarded to 2 lucky members.
> > So I'm feeling that as the release party is not to long into the
> > future we will just do it then. Does this work for everyone else?
> > 
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:34 PM, NICK VERBECK <nerdynick at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > After someone brought up the fact that this is Halloween weekend. It
> > > might best not be that weekend. Will look for a different date on
> > > that. However Joey brings up the Thursday/Friday idea. If that works
> > > better for people we can do it on a weekday if you all want.
> > >
> > > As for the CD's I would love to have it once I get them, but however I
> > > can never be sure when they get here. Last time they got here real
> > > fast but the time before it took a few weeks after the release before
> > > we ever got CD's. So not sure how well that will work out. However we
> > > can aim for about the same distance from release date as last time and
> > > hope to get cd's in time. Else we can burn a few for the event.
> > >
> > > Joey has also brought up the idea of team elections. What is the
> > > consensus on this? Do we have anyone who wishes to take my place
> > > and/or assist in managing the group? We can also make this part of the
> > > Release Party as well. Kind of have an end of party election or
> > > something.
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:42 PM, David Overcash
> > > <funnylookinhat at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> [Snip]
> > >> I would also say, based on some comments I heard at the CLUE INSTALLFEST
> > >> last weekend, try to schedule it so that it is late enough that you will
> > >> have disks.  One of the comments I heard from several noobs was were do I
> > >> get disks.  I referred at least three people to watch for this announcement
> > >> and to get them from you.
> > >> [/Snip]
> > >>
> > >> Totally agree with Kevin - However, I know the discs can often be
> > >> unpredictable at best for when they're supposed to show up.  So if
> > >> necessary, put me down for burning 30 CDs to bring with.
> > >>
> > >> -David
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