From pppm at timchambersusa.com Sun Aug 3 21:03:17 2014 From: pppm at timchambersusa.com (Tim Chambers) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 22:03:17 -0600 Subject: [Pikes-peak-pm] Fwd: Community News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly In-Reply-To: <1407106899.6545.0.202649@post.oreilly.com> References: <1407106899.6545.0.202649@post.oreilly.com> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marsee Henon and Jon Johns Date: Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 5:01 PM Subject: Community News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly To: pppm at timchambersusa.com View in browser . Forward this announcement to a friend [image: O'Reilly User Group Newsletter] ------------------------------ Hello, [image: Head First] You may be familiar with our very popular Head First series , but have you ever thought about writing one of our brain-friendly guides? It takes a special storyteller to weave learning principles with code! If you are interested in learning more, please contact our Head First editor Meg Blanchette . Cheers, ?Marsee Henon and Jon Johns P.S. Jon will be in San Francisco at Scala by the Bay Aug 8-9. Come by Ft. Mason and say hi. ------------------------------ Available for Review [image: Hands-On Sencha Touch 2] We're looking for reviewers for the following books & videos. Consider posting your reviews on Amazon, Slashdot, oreilly.com, goodreads.com, and/or your blog. - Hands-On Sencha Touch 2 - MySQL Cookbook, 3rd Edition - Using Flume 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: Fire Phone: Out of the Box] [image: Build iOS Games with Sprite Kit] [image: Galaxy S5: The Missing Manual] [image: App Inventor 2] [image: Design For Kids] [image: Getting Started with Sensors] ------------------------------ Video Training New Releases [image: Intermediate PHP] We're looking for reviewers for the following videos. Consider posting your reviews on Slashdot, oreilly.com, and/or your blog. - Intermediate PHP - Velocity Conference Santa Clara 2014: Complete Video Compilation - PHP Web Services ------------------------------ Spread the word?and earn a commission [image: BioCoderSpring2014] Join the O'Reilly Affiliate Program and get paid for helping people find high-quality technical content. When you direct a visitor to shop.oreilly.com and they make a qualified purchase, you'll receive a sales commission of 5% on books, ebooks, and videos, and $100 for each qualified conference registration. It's easy to become an Affiliate, and it's free. ------------------------------ Stories we're following at O'Reilly [image: Lambda] - Online communities could benefit from the power of offline meetings - Face-to-face engagement can cement relationships and build depth in online communities. - Signals from OSCON 2014: From tiny satellites to young programmers to reasoned paranoia, here are key talks from OSCON 2014. - Materials that make up our world Digital manufacturing is the future ??? reusable, composable, and rapid from top to bottom. - Podcast: Design for how the world should work - Josh Clark and Tim O'Reilly on designing beyond screens, and beyond a single device. - Applying design values to programming - Can we create more vibrant intersections? ------------------------------ MoDevCon CFP due August 21 (Washington D.C. December 11-12) [image: coderfaire] The Call for Speakers and pre-registration is open for the 4th Annual Edition of ModevCon (formerly ModevEast), from our friends at Modev. This year's event focuses heavily on the APIs and SDKs powering the mobile ecosystem. Submit a talk by Aug 21 and join more than 800 of your peers this Dec 11-12. Speaking topics include Mobile Development, UX + Design, API / SDK Strategies, Enterprise Apps, Gaming, more. ------------------------------ Come join Scala By the Bay (San Francisco, August 8th-9th) [image: Scala] Keynotes from Marius Eriksen of Twitter and Matei Zaharia of Databricks, and deep dives on all aspects of Scala from key engineers, including O'Reilly authors -- coding talks only. A hackathon, an unconference, and food trucks will be there, with streaming coffee. SF Scala offers a Typesafe Certified Fast Track to Scala course (Aug 6-7) and a Fast Track to Spark (Aug 11-12). See you By the Bay! ------------------------------ 15th Cloud Expo ??? (Santa Clara November 4-6) [image: CloudExpo] Cloud Expo offers a vast selection of Industry Keynotes, General Sessions, Breakout Sessions, and signature Power Panels. The Expo Floor features two Demo Theaters that give delegates the opportunity to get even closer to the technology they want to see. ------------------------------ Put Up a Banner & Get a Free Book?Group 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 or video of your choice. Choose from the following list of banners: [image: Strata] - Strata + Hadoop World Banners - Discount Slides (Powerpoint, Keynote, Open Office) - UG Discount Banners ------------------------------ [image: Buy 1 Ebook, Get 1 Free with your user group discount code: DSUG50] ------------------------------ Looking for more? Visit oreilly.com . You are receiving this email because you are a User Group contact with O'Reilly Media. If you would like to stop receiving these newsletters or announcements from O'Reilly, send an email to: usergroups at oreilly.com O'Reilly Media, Inc. 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472 (707) 827-7000 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pppm at timchambersusa.com Tue Aug 26 19:26:32 2014 From: pppm at timchambersusa.com (Tim Chambers) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 20:26:32 -0600 Subject: [Pikes-peak-pm] Fwd: Community News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly In-Reply-To: <1408921276.24819.0.017759@post.oreilly.com> References: <1408921276.24819.0.017759@post.oreilly.com> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Marsee Henon and Jon Johns" Date: Aug 24, 2014 5:11 PM Subject: Community News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly To: Cc: View in browser . Forward this announcement to a friend [image: O'Reilly User Group Newsletter] ------------------------------ Hello, Our annual Back-to-school sale starts Monday, August 25th. This is one of our most popular sales of the year, and we'd like you to make sure everyone gets a chance to save, and perhaps learn something new this year. Please share this info with your community, or via social media. Cheers, ?Marsee Henon and Jon Johns P.S. Did you know we have hundreds of hours of free video training available on our webcasts page? Just scroll down below the "Upcoming" section, then you can sort by category and watch full 1-hour+ presentations from experts. ------------------------------ Available for Review [image: Mobile and Web Messaging] We're looking for reviewers for the following books & videos. Consider posting your reviews on Amazon, Slashdot, oreilly.com, goodreads.com, and/or your blog. - Mobile and Web Messaging - Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition - Learning MCollective 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: Make: Rockets] [image: Getting Started with Impala] [image: Salt Essentials] [image: Hadoop Security] [image: Designing Mobile Payment Experiences] [image: Introducing GitHub] ------------------------------ Video Training New Releases [image: Programming 3D Applications in HTML5 and WebGL] We're looking for reviewers for the following videos. Consider posting your reviews on Slashdot, oreilly.com, and/or your blog. - Programming 3D Applications in HTML5 and WebGL - 3D Animation and Visualization for Web Pages - OSCON 2014: Complete Video Compilation ------------------------------ Stories we're following at O'Reilly [image: Lambda] - Not just the government's playbook - The 13 principles in the U.S. CIO's Digital Services Playbook are applicable for everyone. - Postmortems, sans finger-pointing: The O'Reilly Radar Podcast - In this episode, John Allspaw talks in-depth about blameless postmortems and creating a just culture. - Does net neutrality really matter? - Competition, access to bandwidth, and other issues muddy the net neutrality waters. - Ten years of OpenStreetMap - OSM is moving out of its awkward adolescence and into its mature, young adult phase. ------------------------------ "Usually I read and re-read a book until I wear holes in the pages. To me, this means that I have thoroughly read that book." - anonymous author. [image: CheckIO] The folks at CheckiO are running a programming challenge in the spirit of Burning Man. Try out the "Text Holes Golf" mission for a chance to win some prizes from us. You have until *August 28*. ------------------------------ Startup Grind 2015 - 2 for 1 bundles until 9/4 (Feb 9th-11th, Redwood City, CA) [image: StartupGrind] Startup Grind , a global community of entrepreneurs and technologists with chapters in 113 cities puts on a Global Conference once a year. 2,000 startups, developers, investors, marketers, and anyone looking for a little inspiration will converge at the Fox Theater in Redwood City, CA this February 9-11. Confirmed speakers include Vinod Khosla (Sun Microsystems), Adi Tatarko (Houzz), Logan Green (Lyft), and Scott Harrison (Charity: Water). 2 for 1 Bundles Available Until 9/4. ------------------------------ Northeast PHP Conference (Sept 6-7, Boston, MA) [image: nephp] Join up to 300 software developers, web technologists, and user experience professionals at the Northeast PHP Conference on Saturday, September 6th and Sunday, September 7th in Boston. Northeast PHP is a community conference bringing together technical user groups from across the northeast, including Boston PHP. Keynote speakers include Steve Krug, author of "Don't Make Me Think" and "Rocket Surgery Made Easy". Save $25 off of the already highly affordable $150 ticket price with the promotional code "*we-love-nephp*". ------------------------------ Business of Innovation Summit (Sept 17-18, Providence, RI) [image: BIF] Why go to the BIF Summit ? Answers range from "opening my mind" to "new ideas that blow the top of my head off" to "amazing connections." That's what we call #RCUS - "random collisions of unusual suspects." Join 30 storytellers and 400 innovation junkies for two days of stories that will help you connect, inspire you, and transform your world. There's also a post-Summit workshop, The Future Is Now: 3D Printing, exploring the business-model possibilities of this disruptive technology. ------------------------------ The Lean Startup Conference (Dec 8-12, San Francisco, CA) [image: lean] O'Reilly will be at the Lean Startup Conference this year, and several of our experts will be speaking, including Tim O'Reilly, Laura Klein, Cindy Alvarez, Alistair Croll, and Janice Fraser. They have five days of sessions and events designed to improve your success as an entrepreneur. Whether you're new to Lean Startup or tackling advanced topics in entrepreneurship, they're structuring the conference to address your biggest challenges and connect you with relevant experts and peers. They've opened a new round of Call for Proposals, you can submit here . Or you can register for the conference here . ------------------------------ Community Member Discounts on O'Reilly Conferences Please don't forget to share the Community and User Group member discount code with your members. *USRG* will save your members 20% off any of our conferences, including these upcoming events: - Velocity Conference NY - Strata Conference + Hadoop World - Velocity Barcelona - Strata Barcelona ------------------------------ Put Up a Banner & Get a Free Book?Group 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 or video of your choice. Choose from the following list of banners: [image: Strata] - Velocity Conference in New York - Velocity Conference in Barcelona - Strata + Hadoop World Banners - Discount Slides (Powerpoint, Keynote, Open Office) - UG Discount Banners ------------------------------ [image: Buy 1 Ebook, Get 1 Free with your user group discount code: DSUG50] ------------------------------ Looking for more? Visit oreilly.com . You are receiving this email because you are a User Group contact with O'Reilly Media. If you would like to stop receiving these newsletters or announcements from O'Reilly, send an email to: usergroups at oreilly.com O'Reilly Media, Inc. 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472 (707) 827-7000 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: