Re: Issue 19 Planning

[Claus Schwarm <clschwarm googlemail com>]

Hi,

you may want to check the guidelines about article length: I think
you're trying to cover too much ground in one move. It's either going
to be too long and boring or about right and superficial. Your
interview partners may not be satisfied with the result.

Just my 2cents.


Regards,
Claus


On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Nelson Marques <07721 ipam pt> wrote:
>  Paul,
>
>  I've decided to change the scope of the article into something more
> interesting.
>
>  I'm going to make the article based on interviews. I am waiting for
> AHEAD Reply and I'm going to take the suggestion from Luís and also
> interview the developers of Brasero.
>
>  In addition I'm also contacting developers of Evince and Adobe
> regarding Acrobat Reader.
>
>  I'm also going to include a small interview with Richard Stallman
> (already confirmed) and I'm waiting on Miguel de Icaza, which I also
> contacted.
>
>  The scope of the article will be the following:
>
>  From the point of view of a possible new migrating user from
> proprietary to open source what will he find on a free software
> platform, and how both free software and proprietary products are
> presented.
>
>  I'm going to include a mini-SWOT (Strength/Weaknesses,
> Opportunity/Threats) analysis applied to products used for the same end
> (ie. Nero VS Brasero and Adobe Acrobat Reader VS Evince). What are the
> major concerns behind each of them and how their development is oriented
> and to which ends. This is interesting for our area aswel, as it will
> include Product Management strategies and Product Mix information.
>
>  So would this kind of article be suitable for GNOME Journal? It's a
> generic article which I would believe that fits in the scope of our
> Marketing Team and Free Software promotion.
>
>  Any suggestions opinions will be considered of course.
>
>  Thanks,
>  nelson.
>
> On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 15:12 -0600, Paul Cutler wrote:
>> On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 15:00 -0600, Paul Cutler wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Thanks to everyone who worked on getting GNOME Journal Issue 18 out the
>> > door -  now it's time to plan the next issue!  I'm copying the marketing
>> > list too as we're always looking for new writers or new article ideas.
>> >
>> > I've updated our main wiki page[1] to reflect an aggressive publication
>> > schedule for 2010.  One of my personal goals is for GJ to continue to
>> > publish on a regular schedule with lots of coverage of GNOME 3.0 this
>> > year.
>> >
>> > Sumana and others have put some work in to our Article Wishlist page[2]
>> > over the last few months - is there anyone out there that wants to try
>> > their hand at writing an article?  Or if you have ideas for articles,
>> > please add them.
>> >
>> > For Issue 19, we have Jono Bacon writing an article on opportunistic
>> > programming and I've followed up with Stormy on a potential interview
>> > with an Advisory Board member.
>> >
>> > Any one else want to try and write an article?  (Maybe a Behind the
>> > Scenes interview with Seif about Zeitegeist?) Submissions would be due
>> > approximately March 10th for an April 1st publication date[3].
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > Paul
>> >
>> > [1] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeJournal
>> > [2] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeJournal/ArticleWishlist
>> > [3] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeJournal/ArticleSubmissionQueue
>> >
>>
>> Just to add a couple more thoughts to to anyone who may be interested in
>> writing an article:
>>
>> My goal is to have 3-6 articles per issue, including a developer type
>> article, an interview and / or Behind the Scenes, an application review,
>> and a GNOME or GNOME 3.0 related article.
>>
>> If any of those interest you, let the GJ team know!  We're also open to
>> helping new authors or collaborating too.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Paul
>>
>
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