I have recently started reading books (on my smartphone) during my regular long public transit commute, since reading news for hours every day kept me well-informed but somehow drove me nuts.<\/p>\n
The sci-fi novel I just finished reading is called Rapture of the Nerds<\/a> by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross<\/strong>. It is such an awesome read that I just have to share it – both to support the authors financially, and to spread the joy I experienced to people I care about. So I thought about whom I could share this book with. But in the “real world” most people I know are not geeky enough or could language-wise not keep up, to fully appreciate that book. So here it is: I will sponsor this book (as dead-tree version or as DRM-free digital version of any kind that’s available for purchase) for the first three contributors to any popular FOSS project.<\/strong> Just submit a comment or send an e-mail telling me what project(s) you are or have been contributing to, and then we can figure out how I can get your edition of choice of Rapture of the Nerds to you.<\/p>\n Update (2012-12-28):<\/strong> Slight rewording, republished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have recently started reading books (on my smartphone) during my regular long public transit commute, since reading news for hours every day kept me well-informed but somehow drove me nuts. The sci-fi novel I just finished reading is called Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross. It is such an awesome … Continue reading “Let me buy you an awesome book in exchange for your FOSS contributions”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-non-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThen it occurred to me: why not combine my passion for FOSS with my love for that book and the desire to support the authors – and that this blog might just have the right audience.<\/p>\n