I tend to agree, perhaps someone should be keeping track of the reviews. ----- Original Message ----- From: jshufelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Main Discussion List for KPLUG" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Book review challenge [was: Newsletter from O'Reilly UGProgram, Feb 3] Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 20:13:45 -0800
> > 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 -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
