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Thanks for organizing this, Kevin. I did some initial work a couple months ago as part of the sponsorship committee. Rosenfeld Media is sending Tim McGeary a bunch of giveaway books. O'Reilly is also offering a free ebook to all attendees, but if you can convince them to donate physical giveaway books too, that would be great. -Shaun On 11/22/13 12:04 PM, Kevin S. Clarke wrote: > Who doesn't like free programming/tech/library books? > > Each year at the Code4Lib conference, we try to give away goodies (books, > licenses, etc.) in a raffle (that takes place throughout the conference). > To make this possible, we need folks willing to contact book publishers > and inquire whether they'd like to contribute some books to the Code4Lib > conference. This is good exposure for the publishers and good for the > individual Code4Lib'ers who get to walk away with nice books and licenses, > etc. When we contact publishers, we usually mention how long Code4Lib has > been around, the focus of the group, and that we have a website we'd be > glad to thank them on (and from the podium at the conference, too, of > course). > > If you are interested in being a book (or license, etc.) wrangler, please > sign up on the conference planning wiki: > > > http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Code4Lib_2014_Conference_Planning_Volunteers#Book_Give-Away_Committee > > Below are some of the book publishers that have, in the past, donated books > to us: > > Pragmatic Programmers -- http://www.pragprog.com/ (mbklein is currently > signed up for this) > Chandos Publishing -- > http://www.woodheadpublishing.com/en/menuList.aspx?name=Chandos > No Starch -- http://nostarch.com/ > O'Reilly -- http://oreilly.com/ug/ (ksclarke is currently signed up for > this) > APress -- http://www.apress.com/ > Packt Publishing -- http://www.packtpub.com/ > Manning -- http://www.manning.com/ > Morgan and Claypool -- http://www.morganclaypool.com/ > > If you'd like to contact one of them, feel free to pick one and add it to > your name on the Book_Give-Away_Committee wiki page. > > OxygenXML has contributed licenses in the past; Andrew Nagy, I think you've > been their contact? Would you like to do that again? > > Also, if you know of other publishers we haven't contacted before (local NC > Triangle tech bookstores, for instance) that might like to contribute, feel > free to sign up on the wiki page and indicate that you'll contact them. > > And, as a reward for reading this far, if you have titles that you'd like > for us to request from these publishers, feel free to respond to this email > letting the Book Give-Away Committee know so that we can request them from > the publishers. > > Thanks! > Kevin -- Shaun Ellis User Interface Developer, Digital Initiatives Princeton University Library 609.258.1698