[vox] [fwd] Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, April 16

Sat Apr 18 09:49:07 PDT 2009

And here's one from O'Reilly.  (Again with some content
chopped out... we prob don't care about an event on the
northeast side of the US, for example ;) )

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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:21:46 -0700
From: "Marsee Henon"
Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, April 16

Hi there,

We've got a couple of ug/community leader events to share--

In July, Jono Bacon, the author of the upcoming "Art Of Community"
to be published by O'Reilly in August, and Ubuntu Community Manager,
has organized a Community Leadership Summit designed for community
managers, leaders and organizers of all kinds (that includes user group
leaders too!). The summit takes place July 18th and 19th at the San Jose
McEnery Convention Center in San Jose immediately before O'Reilly's Open
Source Convention (OSCON). The summit is entirely free but requires
pre-registration at <http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/register/>.

O'Reilly needs your help! Dave Hoover and Adewale Oshineye, authors of
the upcoming book "Apprenticeship Patterns," are looking for people
to share stories of career development that may be relevant to the book
<http://softwarecraftsmanship.oreilly.com/wiki>.

Please email Dave Hoover <dave.hoover at gmail.com> with your story to share
about your own career development experiences as you think it relates to
aprenticeship patterns.

Here's a recent Rubiverse podcast by Dave Hoover on Software 
Craftsmanship:
<http://rubiverse.com/podcasts/8-dave-hoover-on-software-craftsmanship>

And if you haven't yet, make sure you check out our new Ignite shows
--weekly releases of talks for and by geeks. The latest episode features
Monica Guzman on Being an Awesome News Commenter. You can find the
Ignite Show on iTunes at http://bit.ly/ignite or our site at
<http://ignite.oreilly.com/show>

--Marsee

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Until next time--

Marsee Henon

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-bill!
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