Re: Issue 19 Planning

[Jim Hodapp <james hodapp gmail com>]

Nelson,

    I'd say go ahead and go with this plan and if it ends up being far too long, we could always break it up into a multi-issue article. That sounds really interesting! I look forward to reading the interviews that you have lined up.

Thanks,

Jim


On Feb 11, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Nelson Marques 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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