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

[Martin Bogomolni]

Forwarded to Tim O'Reilly.

-M

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com> wrote:
> 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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