[Noisebridge-discuss] FYI Safari Books Online on SFPL

[Jacob Appelbaum]

Mitch Altman wrote:
> I was hanging out with Bill Pollock, of No Starch Press, tonight
> (they're publishing a book teaching Python to kids by NB member Al
> Sweigart, and also, as of tonight me and Jeff Keyzer are now signed
> up to write a book on teaching people to play with microcontrollers).

Congratulations Mitch! That's awesome news!

> Bill has donated one of every book in the No Starch catalog to
> Noisebridge (and they're all on the bookshelves on the 2nd floor).
> He gave me the three newest ones tonight, which I added to the
> bookshelves:  "The Google Way", "Growing Software", and "The Manga
> Guide to Electricity" -- the last one is an actual manga comic book.
> 

This is also pretty wonderful, we should do something nice for Bill.

> 
> Tonight Bill offered to give us books at 50% discount, suggesting we
> could sell them at 25% off of list price, thus keeping 25% for
> Noisebridge.  What do folks think of that?
> 
> 

Wow, Bill has really outdone himself. We should write him a card or
something. This is something we should talk about in a meeting, perhaps?

Best,
Jake