Hi,
Just letting everyone know I've applied for user group membership to the
following publishers:
O'Reilly[1]
Apress[2]
Packt Publishing[3]
Here is an excerpt from the Apress email that indicates what this means
for members of NZZUG:
<quote>
1. Overview of Membership Benefits:
* Free books in exchange for reviews.
* 25% off regular priced Apress and friends of ED titles.
* Free promotional items for user group raffles and events.
* Author speaking engagements: If our authors are in your region, I'll
try to arrange a visit to your group meeting.
* Show your affiliation with Apress. Logos for your group's site are
available here:
http://www.apress.com/community/logo .
</quote>
As part of this we'll also need to update the site to include a
'library' of books available for loan/review. Also, a facility for
people to request books as well as loan books out (a simple wiki could
do but we'll have to investigate options - suggestions welcome!).
Related to this I'm currently in the process of updating our site to
Plone 3 so will look at products particularly supported by this version
of Plone.
In the meantime, if anyone has got a particular book from the
above-mentioned publishers they'd like to view (I've got my eyes on The
Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right :), please let me
know!
I'll update everyone when I hear back from the publishers regarding the
state of our registration.
Thanks,
Tim
[1]
http://www.oreilly.com[2]
http://www.apress.com[3]
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