Re: [guadec-list] Andrew Krause Sponsoring GUADEC - 3 Books up for grabs

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 13:49 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 14:21 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> > Martyn Russell wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have been in contact with Andrew Krause (author of the newly published
> > > GTK+ book [1]) lately regarding the GTK+ website I am redesigning. He
> > > has kindly donated 3 books to me for the work I have been doing there
> > > and I am making these books available as some sort of prize at GUADEC.
> > >
> > > My original thought was that we could use this as a prize for the
> > > football tournament, but with teams of 5 people, 3 books isn't enough of
> > > course. So instead, does anyone have any idea how we could distribute
> > > these books?
> > >
> > > We could have 3 different competitions perhaps?
> > >
> > > 1. Best photo at GUADEC (given to the photographer)?
> > > 2. Best presentation?
> > > 3. Best organiser?
> > >
> > > I don't know, I am open to suggestion here. What say you?
> > >
> > > [1] http://www.gtkbook.com/
> > >
> > >   
> > Best community contributor or something like that perhaps?
> 
> We have a bunch of Google SoC students coming. Maybe best demo from an
> SoC student, best newcomer,

> or best hack at the conference.

This would be awesome.  Though, the book may not be useful to the most
awesome hackers..

And the old boring drop for grab at closing.  I prefer a selection
though.  aKademy has this aKademy Awards where they have a cool
KDE-related photo and people sign it with a golden ink marker.  The
organizers, board, foundation members, etc can choose whom to, but it
needs more work than just selection.

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