[Noisebridge-discuss] Fwd: A technology workspace Noisebridge needs your help!

[Rachel McConnell]

On 12/20/11 8:29 PM, Zephyr Pellerin wrote:
>
> Hey I just sent this to O'Reilly, someone should let me know if I've
> made a terrible mistake.

Not at all!  Great idea, and kudos for taking the initiative on it.

Rachel

> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Hello O'Reilly Publishing!
>
> My name is Zephyr Pellerin, I'm a member at Noisebridge which is a
> community run infrastructure provider for technology projects in the
> Mission district of San Francisco, we're completely run as a
> collaborative institution and we're incorporated as a non-profit
> educational corporation for public benefit.
>
> We have a relatively extensive library which is used by hundreds of
> people interested in learning about technology and mathematics every
> week, we have quite a few books and people reading them already!
>
> Library <http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6041/6255312232_59cb92362f_o.jpg>
> Library 2 <http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6226/6254785459_e603087081_o.jpg>
> Library 3 <http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4016/4501319481_a21d5cd62f_b.jpg>
>
> We think O'Reilly publishing provides some of the best presented, most
> informative, and comprehensive information on virtually every topic of
> interest to programmers, we recommend your books to those looking to
> learn a technology daily, but unfortunately we don't have very many of
> them beyond what members have donated! Particularly lacking is coverage
> of newer technologies (Such as Node.js and Cassandra) and newer
> paradigms of looking at existing problems in technology (Like Machine
> Learning and Statistics) which people are increasingly interested in.
>
> Consequently, we'd like to solicit a donation from you, if your business
> would be interested in donating to this project, we'd greatly appreciate
> your input. All donations would be recognized as donated from your
> company. This letter and our letter of thank you indicating the amount
> is sufficient documentation of your donation for tax purposes.
>
> These donations of books will be used for the sole purpose and benefit
> of Noisebridge members in San Francisco, no donations will be awarded to
> members or participants in Noisebridge, Our project goal is to provide a
> public source of hands on knowledge
>
> If you have any questions, this message is cc'ed to the Noisebridge
> discussion list, which is read by many Noisebridge members who will be
> able to reply to your query, If you have any specific questions you can
> email me back and I will put you in touch with whomever is best suited
> to answer your question.
>
> Thank you in advance for your consideration and support,
>
> - Zephyr Pellerin
>
>
>
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