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(Interestingly, uPortal's developer books channel, once upon a time, did this, with the kickbacks going to IBS for a few minutes. The kickback feature was removed at the project administrator's request. -~awp9)

~jayshao I also put this in the category of "unlikely to generate enough revenue to be worth it". The idea of a virtual professional reading club is perhaps very attractive – pick a technical book (DDD, Effective Java, GoF Patterns, etc.) and have a themed discussion on a mailing list or in IRC. That seems to better build us as a community of practice and support our professional development and networking missions much more strongly than a passive list of books. In general, I think any linkages we can build between in-person events will only strengthen our community.

~awp9 I agree, Jason. If social networking around books in JASIG is worth doing, then let's set up a JA-SIG Goodreads group and jump to the part where we share book recommendations and discussions, and skip the part where we expend limited JA-SIG infrastructure and website resources on implementing Amazon's referral mechanism on jasig.org's web presence. Prioritizing the most important, and achievable, web presence requirements, like timely presentation on the JA-SIG homepage of JA-SIG conference calls for proposals and seminar selections, is important to the success of this webpresence revitalization effort.