Notes
The Prizes
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With just a fortnight to go days to go until the second annual Open Book Exam, we’d like to take a moment to thank our sponsors. Once again we’ve been overwhelmed with the response to the Open Book Exam and the generosity of our friends who have gone above and beyond the call of duty to support our event.
A year ago, when we first wrote: “The Standardistas’ Open Book Exam promises to be one of the most exciting events in this year’s geek calendar,” we were of course guilty of a little hyperbole. However, the feedback we received after last year’s event and the support we have received as we prepare for this year’s event have been nothing short of overwhelming.
We worried that we’d struggle to match last year’s list of prizes in volume and value. We needn’t have worried. We’re sure you’ll agree - looking at the prize list below - there’s a lot of schwag up for grabs and, again, we’d like to thank everyone who has so generously supported us.
The Prize Fund currently stands as follows:
- 01 × New Adventures in Web Design Ticket
- 01 × Industry Conference Ticket
- 03 × Copies of Jeremy Keith’s HTML5 for Web Designers
- 03 × Copies of Dan Cederholm’s CSS3 for Web Designers
- 03 × Copies of Erin Kissane’s The Elements of Content Strategy
- 03 × Copies of Ethan Marcotte’s Responsive Web Design
- 03 × Copies of Aarron Walter’s Designing for Emotion
- 03 × Copies of Luke Wroblewski’s Mobile First
- 03 × Signed Copies of The Web Standardistas’ Bible (King James Edition)
- 01 × Canonical Bag of Schwag (Bag, Lanyard, Pen, Mug, Notebook and Stickers)
- 05 × Copies of Antony Kennedy and Inayaili de Leon’s Pro CSS for High Traffic Websites
- 02 × Copies of 8 Faces #3
- 02 × Copies of Jack Draws Anything
- 01 × 12 Month Onotate License
- 01 × Steedicons Icon Set by Kyle Steed
- 01 × Funktion Typeface by Kyle Steed
- 02 × Silverback Licenses
- 02 × HotGloo Six Month, Small Plan Licenses
- 01 × Print by Mr Paddy Donnelly
- 02 × Signed Copies of Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics
- 02 × 1 GB Dediserve Servers Free for 12 Months
- 64 × Dediserve Cloud Stress Balls
- 01 × Fontdeck Box of Awesome With $50 of Web Fonts
- 01 × Ampersand Conference Ticket
- 03 × Droplet Blind Boxes courtesy of Gavin ‘JamFactory’ Strange
- 02 × Copies of Analog from Realmac Software
- 02 × Copies of LittleSnapper from Realmac Software
- 02 × Copies of RapidWeaver from Realmac Software
- 02 × Copies of Courier from Realmac Software
- 06 × Leuchtturm 1917 Dotted Notebooks from The Paperie
- 03 × Copies of Reverence Library, Volume One
- 02 × Signed Prints by Jez Burrows
- 05 × Field Notes Steno Pads, Balsam Fir Packs and Assorted Schwag
- 01 × Signed Print by Cole Henley
- 02 × Annual Subscriptions to The Manual
- 01 × Date with The Internet™’s Jack Osborne (Value £30)
- 05 × Should I Work for Free? Letterpress Prints by Jessica Hische
- 01 × Copy of Andy Clarke’s Harboiled Web Design
- 01 × Copy of Mark Boulton’s A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web
- 01 × Copy of Donna Spencer’s A Practical Guide to Information Architecture
- 01 × Copy of Brian Suda’s A Practical Guide to Designing with Data
- 01 × Copy of Robert Mills’ A Practical Guide to Designing the Invisible
- 01 × Copy of The Entire Five Simple Steps Library, Including Recently Released Videos
- 04 × Sets of StickyGram Instagram Magnets
We owe a personal thank you to the many people who responded so generously and efficiently to our Request for Schwag (RFS™), not least the following: Simon Collison at New Adventures; Gavin Elliot at Industry Conference; Mandy Brown at A Book Apart; our friends at friends of ED; Yaili at Canonical; Antony Kennedy and Inayaili de Leon; Elliot Jay Stocks at 8 Faces; Jack and Ed Henderson; Belfast’s favourite Rumblers at Rumble Labs; Kyle Steed; Andy Budd at Clearleft; Wolf Becvar at HotGloo; Mr Paddy Donnelly; Scott McCloud; the team at Dediserve; Rich Rutter and Jon Tan at Fontdeck; Rich Rutter at Ampersand Conference; Gavin ‘JamFactory’ Strange; Nik Fletcher at Realmac Software; Simon and Angela Young at The Paperie; Jez Burrows; Michele Seiler at Field Notes; Cole Henley; Andy McMillan at The Manual; The Internet™’s Jack Osborne; Jessica Hische; Mark Boulton at Five Simple Steps; and, last but not least, Kejia at StickyGram.
We’re looking forward to seeing you all at Build and entertaining you for what we are sure will be a memorable evening. With just a fortnight to go we’d encourage you to get revising and follow @standardistas on Twitter where we will be sprinkling clues in our timeline and revealing revision topics shortly.
Registration for the exam will open at 15.00 (GMT) on Thursday, 27 October. With only 64 places available we suggest you form your teams now, choose a team name and nominate a team member to submit your team when registrations open. Spaces in the Open Book Exam were snapped up in under eight minutes in 2010 so have your details ready to go the moment the registration opens. Good luck!
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