From timc+perl at divide.net Sun Feb 10 16:50:25 2013 From: timc+perl at divide.net (Tim Chambers) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:50:25 -0700 Subject: [Pikes-peak-pm] Fwd: UG News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly In-Reply-To: <1360454468.19676.0.305734@post.oreilly.com> References: <1360454468.19676.0.305734@post.oreilly.com> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Marsee Henon and Jon Johns* Date: Saturday, February 9, 2013 Subject: UG News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly ** View in browser. Forward this announcement to a friend [image: Header] Hi there, We're excited to announce that we are now offering user group members a 35% discount on Wiley ebooks. Just use code *DSUG35* when placing an order online at oreilly.com. You'll know Wiley for their trusted brands that include Wrox, Sybex, For Dummies, Visual, and more. (Sorry, but at this time we're unable to offer review copies of Wiley titles for your meetings or special events.) Cheers, Marsee Henon and Jon Johns P.S. If you haven't yet, please take a look at our *Industrial Internet Series*on O'Reilly Radar. If you have projects, MeetUps, or other items to share, please let us know. ------------------------------ Available for Review [image: Lean UX] The UG team is looking for book reviewers for the following books. Consider posting your reviews on Amazon, Slashdot, oreilly.com, and/or your blog. - Lean UX - Getting Started with Mule Cloud Connect - The Definitive ANTLR 4 Reference, 2nd Edition It's easy for you to get books for your meeting or special events?just email usergroups at oreilly.com and include the words "book request" in the subject line. Don't forget to include your deadline and shipping address. Prefer ebooks? We can send you a free ebook certificate to print out for raffles or book reviewers. ------------------------------ New Releases [image: Build Windows 8 Apps with Microsoft?? Visual C++ Step by Step] [image: Jump Start Sinatra] [image: Developing with Couchbase Server] [image: Electrical Engineering Bibliography] [image: Programming PHP, 3rd Edition] [image: Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 33] ------------------------------ Science Hack Day [image: Science Hack Day] Slated for different times at different places all over the world, *Science Hack Day*is a 48-hour event that brings together designers, developers, scientists, citizen scientists, web geeks and anyone with good ideas for a brief but intense period of collaboration, hacking, and building "cool stuff". By working together on focused tasks during this intense two-day period, small groups are capable of producing remarkable results. Find out if there is a Science Hack Day near you, or start your own! ------------------------------ Linux Plumbers Conference CFP [image: Linux Plumbers Conference CFP] Slated for New Orleans this September, the *Linux Plumber's Conference*encourages you to submit track presentation or propose/run a microconference. Refereed track presentations are traditional presentation-format sessions. A microconference is a collection of collaborative sessions focused on a particular area of the kernel plumbing. Won't you try it? ------------------------------ O'Reilly at the SharePoint Technology Conference [image: O'Reilly at the SharePoint Technology Conference] Come join us at *SPTechCon*, March 3-6 in San Francisco. Attend 90+ technical classes, tutorials and breakout classes with content geared to IT professionals, business managers, and developers ranging from top Microsoft MVPs, to such experts as Microsoft Press and O'Reilly Media authors. Exhibit admission is free or receive a $100 discount off either the 4 or 3-day pass by inserting the code *OREILLY* when prompted on the eRegistration page. ------------------------------ Slashdot Video: Jono Bacon Talks Up Ubuntu for Phones [image: Slashdot Video: Jono Bacon Talks Up Ubuntu for Phones] Slashdot's *Tim Lord talks with Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon*at CES. Here's the video. Jono is the author of The Art of Community, 2ed. ------------------------------ How Sci-Fi and Real World Interfaces Influence Each Other *Presented by:* Chris Noessel *Duration:* Approx. 60 min. *Cost:* Free [image: Learn More] Wednesday, February 27, 2013 10AM PT, San Francisco Make It So: Interaction Design lessons from Science Fictionexplores how sci-fi and interface design relate to each other. *Join Chris Noessel*as he describes the model that traces lines of influence between the two, and how he and his co-author, Nathan Shedroff, use it as a scaffold to investigate how the depiction of technologies evolve over time, how fictional interfaces influence those in the real world, and what lessons interface designers can learn through this process. ------------------------------ Put up a Banner & Get a Free Book?UG leaders only We're looking for groups to display our discount banners on their websites. 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We're happy to say that we are now taking Paypal on oreilly.com, so you now have one more reason to order your favorite titles today. ------------------------------ Available for Review [image: Vintage Tomorrows] The UG team is looking for book reviewers for the following books. Consider posting your reviews on Amazon, Slashdot, oreilly.com, and/or your blog. - Vintage Tomorrows - Designing Games - Windows PowerShell 3.0 Step by Step It's easy for you to get books for your meeting or special events?just email usergroups at oreilly.com and include the words "book request" in the subject line. Don't forget to include your deadline and shipping address. Prefer ebooks? We can send you a free ebook certificate to print out for raffles or book reviewers. ------------------------------ New Releases [image: Windows PowerShell??? 3.0 Step by Step] [image: Best of TOC - 3rd Edition] [image: Cucumber Recipes] [image: NOOK HD: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition] [image: Learning PHP Design Patterns] [image: Take Control of iTunes 11: The FAQ] ------------------------------ Registration is Open for Velocity 2013 [image: Registraion has opened for Velocity 2013] *Registration * is open for Velocity 2013 in Santa Clara, CA, June 18-20. Join hundreds like you who are building a faster, stronger web. Whether your forte is web performance, operations, DevOps, or some combo of the three, three days and four dedicated topic tracks at Velocity will give you the practical skills and much more to make you better at what you do. Best price ends March 6. Save an additional 20% with code *USRG*. ------------------------------ Mind Tools Expert Interview with Dave Gray on "The Connected Company" [image: Science Hack Day] In this interview, Dave Gray (*Connected Company* and *Gamestorming*), talks about what is to be a "Connected Company." To keep pace with today's connected customers, your company must become a connected company. That means deeply engaging with workers, partners, and customers, changing how work is done, how you measure success, and how performance is rewarded. It requires a new way of thinking about your company: less like a machine to be controlled, and more like a complex, dynamic system that can learn and adapt over time. ------------------------------ Erlang Factory SF Bay Area 2013 - 25%Off [image: Science Hack Day] On March 21-22 50 speakers from companies such as WhatsApp, Nokia, Ericsson, Rakuten, HP, and Microsoft, will showcase tools, libraries and experiences in building massively concurrent distributed systems with Erlang at the Earlang Factory SF Bay Area 2013. Speakers include Erik Meijer, Robert Virding, Stuart Bailey, Jose Valim, and O'Reilly authors Francesco Cesarini, Fred Hebert and Noah Gift. Talks will cover areas such as Big Data, Scalability and Multi-core, use cases in Gaming, Social Media, Messaging, Web-development, Mobile, Telecoms and Databases. They will evaluate tools such as RabbitMQ, MongooseIM, Ejabberd and compare NoSQL databases such as Couch DB, Riak and LeoFS. Take advantage of a 25% discount off the price of the conference when you registerwith the code *OREILLY*. ------------------------------ Google Summer of Code 2013 is On! [image: Science Hack Day] This is the 9th year for Google Summer of Code, an innovative program dedicated to introducing students from colleges and universities around the world to open source software development. The program offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects with the help of mentoring organizations from all around the globe. The goal is to help these students pursue academic challenges over the summer break while they create and release open source code for the benefit of all. *Spread the word*?if you know of a university student who would be interested in working on open source projects this summer, or if you know of an organization that might want to mentor students to work on their open source projects, please direct them to the Google Summer of Code 2013 website where they can find the timeline along with the FAQs. ------------------------------ Five Things You Need To Know About Startup Analytics *Presented by:* Alistair Croll& Benjamin Yoskovitz *Duration:* Approx. 60 min. *Cost:* Free [image: Learn More] Wednesday, March 6, 2013 10AM PT, San Francisco In this live webcast presentationwe walk you through Lean Analytics?what it is, how it works and some important concepts that can help you as an innovator in a startup or large company. In this webcast we will discuss: - Lean From Within: Analytics for Intrapreneurs - Understanding Your Startup: The Business Model Flipbook - The Lean Analytics Stages ------------------------------ Put up a Banner & Get a Free Book?UG leaders only We're looking for groups to display our discount banners on their websites. If you send us your group's site with one or more banners posted, we'll send you the O'Reilly book(s) of your choice. Choose from the following list of banners:[image: Strata UG Discount] - Velocity Conference Banners - Fluent Conference Banners - Strata Conference Banners - UG Program Banners - UG Discount Banners ------------------------------ [image: Learn about our Ebooks here] Buy 1 Ebook, Get 1 Free with your user group discount code: *DSUG2* ------------------------------ Looking for more? Visit oreilly.com. [image: Find more at oreilly.com] You are receiving this email because you are a User Group contact with O'Reilly Media. 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This conference is not just about Linux, since many communities get together and have special eventsonsite as well. You'll find Puppet Camp LA, Los Angeles PostgreSQL Day, DevOps Day LA, MySQL community Day, UbuCon, and the Weakest Geek. If you're planning a special event with your group, make sure you let us know. We can send some books, help promote it, or even attend (no promises though). Cheers, Marsee Henon and Jon Johns P.S. We've got a great PHP Ebook dealthis week, if you'd like to pass it along. ------------------------------ Available for Review [image: Programming PHP, 3rd Edition] The UG team is looking for book reviewers for the following books. Consider posting your reviews on Amazon, Slashdot, oreilly.com, and/or your blog. - Programming PHP, 3rd Edition - Programming with the Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit - Python Cookbook It's easy for you to get books for your meeting or special events?just email usergroups at oreilly.com and include the words "book request" in the subject line. Don't forget to include your deadline and shipping address. Prefer ebooks? We can send you a free ebook certificate to print out for raffles or book reviewers. ------------------------------ New Releases [image: Programming with the Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit] [image: Agile Data] [image: Training Guide: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3] [image: Sencha Touch 2 Up and Running] [image: Outsource It!] [image: Python Cookbook] ------------------------------ Harper's Magazine features "Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress" [image: Harper's Magazine features] We're excited to have Harper's Magazine [Readings] feature Peter Tyson's "Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress:Learn to Play the Most Complex Video Game Ever Made" Here's an excerpt from the articleavailable on harpers.org: "When a 'strange mood' strikes, a dwarf will stop whatever they are doing and rush to a workshop, their heads filled with an idea for a legendary artifact that they would like to construct. If the dwarf is able to successfully complete the artifact, they will often become legendary in the associated skill, gain a happy thought, and your fortress will have a valuable artifact to use and admire." ------------------------------ Big data comes to the big screen?Using data science to predict the Oscars [image: Big data comes to the big screen--Using data science to predict the Oscars] Sophisticated algorithms are not going to write the perfect script or crawl YouTube to find the next Justin Beiber (that last one I think we can all be thankful for!). But a model can predict the probability of a nominee winning the Oscar, and recently our model has Argo overtaking Lincoln as the likely winner of Best Picture. Every day on FarsiteForecast.com we've been describing applications of data science for the media and entertainment industry, illustrating how our models work, and updating the likely winners based on the outcomes of the Awards Season leading up to the Oscars. ------------------------------ Get to Know Microsoft Press [image: Get to Know Microsoft Press] Microsoft Pressis a division of Microsoft Corporation. Since 1985, Microsoft Press has been helping IT professionals, developers, and home office and office users hone their technical skills and knowledge with books and other resources. Since 2009, Microsoft and O'Reilly Media have been in a publishing alliance, sharing the editorial direction and development of Microsoft Press products. O'Reilly also handles sales, distribution, and customer service. Written by industry experts, Microsoft Press products are available worldwide. ------------------------------ Strata 2013 is Sold Out?Keynote Livestream Available [image: Strata 2013 is Sold Out--Keynote Livestream Available] Strata 2013is sold out. For those who can't join us in person, we will livestream all keynote presentations (pending speaker consent) taking place in Mission City Ballroom on Wednesday and Thursday, as well as select breakout sessions on Wednesday and Thursday. The Livestream player will be on the Strata Home page and a separate streaming page, strataconf.com/live. We'll add a schedule to that page soon. The player is freely embeddable, so please feel free to share this excellent content. ------------------------------ Lean UX: Agility through cross-functional collaboration *Presented by:* Jeff Gothelf *Duration:* Approx. 60 min. *Cost:* Free [image: Learn More] Wednesday, March 13, 2013 10AM PT, San Francisco Join Jeff Gothelf for a hands-on webcastto learn how Lean UX aims to open up the user experience design process with a collaborative approach that involves the entire team. It's a hypothesis-based design approach that tests design ideas early and often and, along the way, builds a shared understanding with team mates that eliminates the dependencies on heavy documentation and challenging communications. ------------------------------ Put up a Banner & Get a Free Book?UG leaders only We're looking for groups to display our discount banners on their websites. If you send us your group's site with one or more banners posted, we'll send you the O'Reilly book(s) of your choice. 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