In 2020, several publishers gave an ebook license or discount code for all attendees. It might be better to request more of those kinds of rewards from publishers and do fewer individuals prizes.
= Book Raffle Publishing and software companies=Be sure to include companies in a "Giveaway Sponsors" section on the conference sponsorship page.
It would be nice to hit up some publishers for books to raffle off at the conference. If you've got ideas add them below under the name of the publisher. Most tech publishers The following companies have user group coordinators that are more than happy to make donations available.contributed prizes:*ALA Publishing*APress*Balsamiq*CRC press*Manning*Morgan & Claypool*No Starch Press*Oxygen XML*Pragmatic Programmers*Rosenfeld Media
==Addison-Wesley==* [http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Practice-of-System-and-Network-Administration-The/9780321492661.page Practice of System and Network Administration, 2E] == APress == == Manning == * [http://manning.com/passin/ Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web] == Morgan & Claypool Publishers==* [http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00215ED1V01Y200907ICR009 Reading and Writing the Electronic Book]* [http://www.morganclaypool.com/toc/wbe.1/1/1 Publishing Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web] (maybe not out yet)* [http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00334ED1V01Y201102WBE001 Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space]* [http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00371ED1V01Y201107AIM013 Human Computation]* [http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00336ED1V01Y201102CSL003 Science Fiction Prototyping: Designing the Future with Science Fiction]* Maybe other books from the [http://www.morganclaypool.com/toc/icr/1/1 Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services]* ... == Morgan Kaufmann == * [http://www.elsevierdirect.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780123735560 Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist] ==No Starch Press==* [http://nostarch.com/ejs| Eloquent Javascript]* [http://nostarch.com/lyah.htm| Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!] == O'Reilly ==* ... == Oxygen XML ==* Licenses == Packt Publishing ==* ... == Pragmatic Programmers == * [http://www.pragprog.com/titles/gsdgis/desktop-gis Desktop GIS: Mapping the Planet with Open Source Tools]* [http://www.pragprog.com/titles/fr_ltp/learn-to-program Learn to Program]* [http://www.pragprog.com/titles/pad/practices-of-an-agile-developer Practices of an Agile Developer]* [http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ajax/pragmatic-ajax Pragmatic Ajax]* [http://www.pragprog.com/titles/tsgit/pragmatic-version-control-using-git Pragmatic Version Control Using Git]* [http://www.pragprog.com/titles/svn2/pragmatic-version-control-using-subversion Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion]* [http://www.pragprog.com/titles/jaerlang/programming-erlang Programming Erlang]* [http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ruby/programming-ruby Programming Ruby]* [http://www.pragprog.com/titles/vsscala/programming-scala Programming Scala]* [http://www.pragprog.com/titles/tpp/the-pragmatic-programmer The Pragmatic Programmer]* [http://www.pragprog.com/titles/pad/practices-of-an-agile-developer Practices of an Agile Developer] [[Category:Code4Lib2009Conferences]]