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Date: Aug 24, 2014 5:11 PM
Subject: Community News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly
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Hello,

Our annual Back-to-school sale
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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
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Cheers,

—Marsee Henon and Jon Johns

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We're looking for reviewers for the following books & videos. Consider
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Video Training New Releases [image: Programming 3D Applications in HTML5
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We're looking for reviewers for the following videos. Consider posting your
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   - Programming 3D Applications in HTML5 and WebGL - 3D Animation and
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   - OSCON 2014: Complete Video Compilation
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Stories we're following at O'Reilly

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"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.

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The folks at CheckiO are running a programming challenge
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Bundles Available Until 9/4.
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Northeast PHP Conference (Sept 6-7, Boston, MA)

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Business of Innovation Summit (Sept 17-18, Providence, RI)

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Why go to the BIF Summit
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Answers range from "opening my mind" to "new ideas that blow the top of my
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collisions of unusual suspects." Join 30 storytellers and 400 innovation
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disruptive technology.
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The Lean Startup Conference (Dec 8-12, San Francisco, CA)

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They've opened a new round of Call for Proposals, you can submit here
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