From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 6 11:31:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA14009 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 11:31:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from superior.mooseriver.com (superior.mooseriver.com [208.138.31.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA14003 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 11:31:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by superior.mooseriver.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06310; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 11:20:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgrosch) Message-ID: <19990206112004.B6205@mooseriver.com> Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 11:20:04 -0800 From: Josef Grosch To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Kevin Weiss Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Frustrating to read...ugh! Reply-To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com References: <199902061515.HAA18460@zippy.cdrom.com> <18479.918314469@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <18479.918314469@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 07:21:09AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 07:21:09AM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > The magazines would love to publish more articles on FreeBSD - I get > asked about writing articles from the various editors all the time. > > Unfortunately, almost each and every time someone like yourself is > asked to actually write an article to deal with this shortcoming in > FreeBSD's PR picture, they usually quickly deflate, citing a lack of > writing skill, time, ideas for a topic, or whatever, and the end > result is that nothing tangible comes out of it and the problem goes > right on being a problem. :-( We have been through this many times. We need to find away around this. Every couple of months we get someone saying, "There are no articles about FreeBSD in XYZ magazine. We should do something about this". You reply back that publishers are coming to you, hat in hand, for something to publish about FreeBSD. You keep reminding us that publishers are desperate of articles to publish. You provide them with a list article ideas. Then this person sorta drifts away and we are left with the same problem. 2 suggestions. 1, post the list of article ideas you have on the web. If you don't have time put this list into a nice web page, send it to me and I'll put up the page on BAFUG and FreeBSD can just link to this page. suggestion 2, this advocacy person you are looking for, have them write an article or 2. my $0.02 Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 3.0 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message