This is great Jono, thanks! I will order the books for the Irish LoCo now.
They'll come handy for the Ubuntu-ie booth/stand at OSSBarCamp in Dublin on 19th September. Also will start passing the books around to the team members as soon as they get delivered. Cheers, Maciej Danielski aka Mean-Machine On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:59:15 -0700 Jono Bacon <j...@ubuntu.com> 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 > -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
