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= Book Raffle tool=Kyle Bannerjee has a raffle tool here:http://raffle.alptown.com/
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. =Publishing and software companies= Be sure to include companies in a "Giveaway Sponsors" section on the conference sponsorship page. The following companies have contributed prizes:*ALA Publishing*APress*Balsamiq*CRC press*Manning*Morgan Kaufmann & Claypool*No Starch Press*Oxygen XML*Pragmatic Programmers*Rosenfeld Media =Boilerplate= A variation of the following was sent to each company:* [I am writing on behalf of the code4lib {year} conference Book Giveaway Committee to request a contribution to give away at our annual conference. All conference attendees are included in the drawing for prizes. code4lib (http://www.elsevierdirectcode4lib.comorg/product) is a community of programmers and technologists who largely work for and with libraries.jsp?isbn=9780123735560 Semantic Web At our annual conference, we like to do multiple drawings for free books and software licenses. We would be grateful to have a few {books or licenses} to giveaway at the Working Ontologistconference, which will be in {location} on {date}. {In some cases, it is helpful to suggest titles: A range of our participants would be interested in titles such as x, y, and z.} We will gladly include the {company} name in our acknowledgement of supporters for the giveaways; please let me know how you would like the name to be written. If you have any questions or if you need more information, please don’t hesitate to contact me. [[Category:Conferences]]