Re: Tuxmagazine

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

If you've got stuff on your plate sri, at least collecting a magazine
list and contact information and picking out some of the best articles
as samples might be something someone else on the list could do in the
meantime? Anyone? :)

Luis

On 5/2/05, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:20:11PM +0200, David Neary wrote:
> > > I'm really interested in pushing some of these articles to generic
> > > magazines where we can reach our target audience.
> >
> > Which is...?
>
> Which generic magazines?  Well, things like Computer Shopper or
> a ZDnet magazine etc.  The ZDNet stuff might have restrictions,
> I don't know.
>
> > For the GNU magazine, RMS is a decent contact. He has tried to
> > encourage article (and of course philosophy) sharing with the magazine
> > staff before.
>
> OK.  Sounds good.
>
> > > > I have a contact in Linux Magazine France, who might be interested in
> > > > syndicating a translation of a GNOME article a month - I would need to
> > > > check up with him and get back to you.
> > > I think having these articles translated to magazines like these
> > > is great.
> >
> > I'll get onto Denis then. I'll keep in touch with status.
>
> Cool.
>
> > > > Is there anyone willing to start building a list of contacts for
> > > > things
> > > > like this, and spend some time knocking on magazine editors' inboxes?
> > >
> > > Putting together a team would be kind of nice from each country
> > > might be one way to do it.  Inviting magazines to attend GUADEC is
> > > also another way to get them to come to you. :-)
> >
> > A good start would be to get a list of magazine people and regularly
> > mail them when gnome journals come out. The list might not be
> > comprehensive, and it may well grow beyond what one person can handle,
> > but we can see who bites, and figure out if it's worth the effort.
> >
> > So - do you want to take it on? ;)
>
> Not sure as of yet.  I'm trying to only commit to stuff I know
> I will be able to get done.  At the moment, my personal life is
> somewhat chaotic.  I'll try to take a stab at it after I've finished
> the personal stuff on my plate. :-)
>
> sri
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