Does is have to be reviews of books. What if it is of the Make magazine? --Jonathan
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 10:40 -0800, Lan Barnes wrote: > > ================================================ > > Book News > > ================================================ > > Did you know you can request a free book to review for your > > group? Ask your group leader for more information. > > > > For book review writing tips and suggestions, go to: > > http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html > > > > OK, I'm one of the big miscreants here, but here goes a proposal laced > with a screed: > > We -- Kplug as a whole -- have been woefully remiss in our > responsibility to review the books that are donated to us by O'Reilly. > How big a deal is this? Well, the books fuel the raffle and the raffle > is our main source of club income. If the books dry up, we might even > have to pay real dues. The meetings would be a lot duller, too. > > So I'm going to put out a challenge, kinda like pledge week on KPBS: I > will write a review of an O'Reilly book to match every review another > Kplugger writes, up to six (6), for the month of February. > > That's right -- you write a review of an O'Reilly book (hopefully one > you've read, maybe even one from the raffle) and send it to Neil; Neil > does his thing (I believe they go on our web site) and thanks you on the > list; and then I see the thank-you note and I belt out a review _of a > completely different O'Reilly book_ (!) and submit it. > > The result -- within less than four weeks we'll have a dozen reviews to > show O'Reilly. Heck, maybe they'll even send down some T-shirts. > > Go to it, gang. > > -- > Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
