Re: Free Official Ubuntu books for Approved LoCo Teams

2009-07-30 Thread Savvas Radevic
> > All in all a pretty sweet deal, methinks. Enjoy! > 1. It would be great if they could provide *free* *official* PDF versions instead of providing a single copy of each book. 2. Is the book still under CC-by-sa license? 3. Where can I find the source? -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contact

Re: Free Official Ubuntu books for Approved LoCo Teams

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 12:22 -0700, Jono Bacon wrote: > Because not every team is in LP. this will be easier when the LoCo > Directory is online. :-) I thought that a launchpad team, properly organised was a requirement for official recognition. Perhaps it's worth going that route and fixing team

Re: Free Official Ubuntu books for Approved LoCo Teams

2009-07-29 Thread Jono Bacon
On 07/29/2009 11:54 AM, Neal McBurnett wrote: > Great idea - thanks! > > But using a wiki for authentication is an awful idea, not one we want > to promote to either the locos or the publishers. > > How about using the launchpad team owner instead? > > Because not every team is in LP. this will

Re: Free Official Ubuntu books for Approved LoCo Teams

2009-07-29 Thread Neal McBurnett
Great idea - thanks! But using a wiki for authentication is an awful idea, not one we want to promote to either the locos or the publishers. How about using the launchpad team owner instead? How about getting the launchpad folks to write a little app with their api to do this in a way that would

Re: Free Official Ubuntu books for Approved LoCo Teams

2009-07-29 Thread Maciej Danielski
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-Ma

Re: Free Official Ubuntu books for Approved LoCo Teams

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 10:59 -0700, Jono Bacon wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently I have been talking to Prentice Hall, the rather spanky-awesome > publishers of The Official Ubuntu Book > All in all a pretty sweet deal, methinks. Enjoy! Thanks for organising and pushing for this Jono, a sweet deal

Re: Free Official Ubuntu books for Approved LoCo Teams

2009-07-29 Thread Bret Fledderjohn
Great opportunity! I've already submitted my request! Thanks Jono! - Bret 2009/7/29 Jono Bacon > 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

Free Official Ubuntu books for Approved LoCo Teams

2009-07-29 Thread Jono Bacon
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/