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Re: [LUG] O'Reilly Community News letter revamp.

 

On 6 Sep 2014, at 11:59, Tom <madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 06/09/14 10:23, Joseph Bennie wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> In the early days, I was around when O'Reilly came to actual lug meet ups and 
>> ever since I've had more direct contact with them in an informal basis.
>> 
>> Recently there was a change of guard as some folks moved on to other community 
>> projects and the current team felt like revamping the O'Reilly Community project.
>> 
>> They shouted out for feedback on the newsletter in particular - a PDF with lots 
>> of embedded links and the community requested the format be changed to be more 
>> transparent.
>> 
>> You would not believe how shocked they were when we demanded a plain text 
>> version! The Community team have however come good and this month the first ever 
>> text version and an online html version are available, the Pdf is gone and the 
>> content more readable. (subject to being dazzled by the cyan links!)
>> 
>> So If you have a moment please can you visit these new online versions and share 
>> your thoughts on the list, or sign up to receive the letter, as i don't think its 
>> appropriate to just forward the text version to the list for all the reasons i 
>> can think but mostly thats so 1998!
>> 
>> text version
>> http://us8.campaign-archive1.com/?u=4babc22b9b74ea96c4cc6ca7a&id=f746a7d0d3&e=610de99cf4
>> 
>> html version
>> http://us8.campaign-archive2.com/?u=4babc22b9b74ea96c4cc6ca7a&id=969eecdc36&e=610de99cf4
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Jay
>> 
>> 
>> Also for random conversation at the next meet up - can you go to the site  
>> www.oreilly.com, and Search for your last book and find out what your last 
>> O'Reilly picture was ?
>> 
>> You can find it in the book detail page i.e.- 
>> http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920029564.do?sortby=publicationDate   Click 
>> Colophon for the full description of the animal.
>> 
>> :)
>> 
>> 
> One of the books on sale in sept is 'Designing Mobile Payment Experiences' . My 
> lower intestine has promised to strangle me if I think of reading that…..

“shoot a hipster” came to mind … but I really want to meet the first person who buys 
this one and integrates some drone tech.  
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781457182921.do?green=C2FA69A2-0FB9-5D1A-B965-A0E639C8B780&intcmp=af-mybuy-9781457182921.IP

then we can upgrade to “fire a missile at hipsters day” 

> Tom te tom te tom
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