Pqluglist- Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--January

Thu Feb 4 00:33:49 EST 2010

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Subject: Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--January
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:00:48 -0800

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Hi there,

Even though it is storming in Sebastopol, CA this week--it's easy to see
spring is coming. Community events and conferences are coming up
everywhere such as Macworld, Microsoft Mix, PYCon, SCALE, RailsConf,
MySQL Conference & Expo, DevConnections, FOSDEM, MountainWest RubyConf,
and much more. If you're involved in a community event please make sure
we send some books to give away. We can provide print or ebook versions.
Don't forget we now offer 45% off our ebooks on oreilly.com. That
includes Microsoft Press as well as O'Reilly Media titles. Just use the
code DSUG when you check out. This same code give you 35% off print
books too. Feel free to post this discount on your website, mailing
list, twitter account, or other places where your members gather. We've
also got a spiffy new PowerPoint or KeyNote slide with this information
I can send you.

I recently posted a question on O'Reilly Answers to ask for suggestions
on reaching out to new members. Make sure you add your opinion and let
me know when you post so I can give you a user group leader badge for
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We're looking for a few user groups interested in having a booth at
Railsconf this year in Baltimore, MD. If you're interested, please drop
me a line. We've got a limited number of tables.

If you're thinking about learning a new technology, you should check out
the new Great Series of videos from O'Reilly. They have friendly
presentation style and the hands-on exercises let you learn as if you're
sitting next to a good friend, sharing programmer to programmer. Let me
know if you'd like to check one out.
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Travel Alert: I'll be attending Macworld February 10 & 11. Please let me
know if you're going to be in town. I'd like to say hi.

I'm also headed to the O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing
Conference in New York February 21 -24 and I'm looking for evening
activities. Do you have a meeting or just want to get together?
Please pass along any part of this newsletter to your group via email or
your website and include the discount codes. We offer both a text and an
HTML version.

Thanks,

--Marsee Henon

P.S. Hope you've noticed our new $9.99 Ebook Deal of the Day on
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Authors looking for Speaking Opportunites
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Please send me an email if you're interested in any of the following
speakers and I'll forward it along:

-Joseph Adler, author of R in a Nutshell is available in Southern
California or the San Francisco Bay Area.

-Ed Wilson, author ofWindows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices and Microsoft
Scripting Guy is available as a speaker in the Charlotte, NC region. He
is also available virtually for any user group world-wide. For more
information contact Ed directly at edwils (at) microsoft (dot) com

-Joan Preppernau, author of Windows 7 Step by Step is looking for
speaking opportunities in the Dallas/Fort Worth area (FlowerMound) of
Texas and in the Northport, Alabama area. Topics include Microsoft
Office, Windows, certification, upgrading, and computing for children
and young people, particularly girls.

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Conference User Group Discounts and Call for Participation
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RailsConf 2010 Call for Participation is now open!
Join us in Baltimore, MD on June 7-10, 2010 for largest official
conference dedicated to everything Rails. We're keeping the Call for
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minute Rails topics to come through. Bring us your hardcore technical
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Take Control of Easy Mac Backups (TidBITS)
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Security on Rails (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
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Until next time--

Marsee Henon