[Fwd: writers]

[woodsage op net]

"jack wallen, jr" wrote:

> hey gang,
>
> i lurk around on the regular gnome list and made and announcement a while
> ago. with a bit of prodding from miguel, i thought i'd do the same here on
> the dev list.
>
> anyway...
>
> i'm joining a company called TechRepublic as editor in cheif of alternat
> operating systems.  i've been their primary linux contributor for about a
> year so they figure it was time to bring me on full.  anyway...to my
> point.
>
> i'm looking for people to write (on a paid and regular basis) about Gnome.
> I want people to write hard core content:  developement, applications,
> evolution, tools for creation of Gnome...you get the idea.
>
> i'm also looking for something else that might tread a fine line but i'm
> gonna ask anyway (i'm funny that way):  i'm looking to start two services
> on the site.  one will be like another service i'm doing called
> (tentativly) Dr. Linux.  the (again tentative) Dr. Gnome column will be a
> place for readers to write in questions and on a daily basis the best
> questions and answers will be posted.  I would like to find someone
> willing to play this role (this would also be someone willing to write
> regular content).
>
> the second part (and i think the most exciting part) is i want to find
> someone who is willing to create unique and original applications to meet
> our audiences needs.  let's say a reader needs an application to do 'Task
> A' well, they write in and our developers create this app for them.  these
> applications would be avalible on the TPG section of TR (TPG is the paid
> product of TR).  TR would pay for this applications of course - i have no
> idea what the scale would be.  i do know that for technical articles we
> pay .35 cents per word and at 2500 words you can do the math!  (i've made
> my living doing nothing but writing about Linux for the last year).
>
> anyway...if anyone is interested in anything above please respond to me
> directly.  none of the above is set yet so, until it's no longer up in the
> air, i have no actual facts.  but i'm going to be in charge of this and i
> want it to be something the IT industry is going to look at more than
> twice.
>
> oh, and the reason i come to Gnome is cause i like it.  i use it (i'm at
> October Gnome) and i find it just simply better than KDE.
>
> anyway...let me know if anyone is interested.
>
> --jack wallen, jr--------------------------------------------------------
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Interesting.

EarthTone