Online Monthly Prize Draw: Packt Publishing
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Please note this is an online monthly prize draw and no actual meeting will take place.
Packt Publishing are accepting nominations for the 2011 Open Source awards (http://www.packtpub.com/open-source-awards-home) until September 9th. The contest provides an established platform for recognising and supporting open source projects and has paid out over $100,000 in prize money over the last 5 years.
Looking back at the 2010 results (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packt#Open_Source_Awards) I can’t help but notice a lack of Java presence. The 2010 winners seem to be predominantly implemented using PHP. This year I think we should use our nominations and votes to see more Open Source Java projects on the winner’s podium.
Personally I’ve already nominated the Disruptor (http://code.google.com/p/disruptor/) project as the most promising. This year the prize fund is $24,000 and the public vote is more influential so it’s worth the effort.
To help everyone think of other possible nominations this month’s book selections demonstrate some of the strong Java contenders in three of the available categories.
Please see the list of books available to win here - LJC Book Club (http://ljcbookclub.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/packt-prize-draw-september-2011/)
Each month we run a promotion with Packt in which LJC members will be selected at random to receive free books. This month we are offering 2 LJC members the chance to win;
First Prize Winner will receive 1 print copy of his/her choice
Runner Up Winner - 1 ecopy of his/her choice
If you’d like the chance to win one of the available books then RSVP to this months Prize Draw Meetup and complete the questions.
Packt Publishing (https://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/25574001/mhtml:%7BCC2EED15-4DA8-4A53-8B53-E3EED5C6CFA8%7Dmid:/00012699/!x-usc:http:/www.packtpub.com/) are a unique publishing company specialising in highly focused books on specific technologies and solutions - please visit their site to find out more about them: www.packtpub.com (https://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/25574001/mhtml:%7BCC2EED15-4DA8-4A53-8B53-E3EED5C6CFA8%7Dmid:/00012699/!x-usc:http:/www.packtpub.com/)
Congratulations to the winners of our August draw - Chris Kimpton and Alex McLintock!
Good luck,
Barry Cranford