From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jan 27 13:53:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 698F81574E for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:53:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA17108; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:52:59 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpdAAApVaarH; Thu Jan 27 14:52:48 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA17855; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:52:48 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200001272152.OAA17855@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Advocacy opportunity To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 21:52:47 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), grog@lemis.com, jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (Jonathon McKitrick), advocacy@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000124223321.01bd85d0@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at Jan 24, 2000 10:35:39 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Terry: > > Given that it's a February issue, this is probably a long-missed > opportunity. Remember that the cover date of most publications is > the date they go OFF the stands, not on; a "February" issue is > customarily distributed in January. Also, most magazines have > two to three months of editorial lead time. Smaller pubs tend > to have longer lead times, because printing costs are lower > when material is supplied to the printer farther in advance. Their ad close is 1/7/2000, so you are probably right. But they have a calendar that shows an ad close of 2/7/2000 for March with a "Watch Point" on "Embedded Operating Systems", which is the opportunity. Note that I said it was an opportunity for a sidebar. It would be better if there were someone tracking these things, or a central place we could put calendar references so that interested people could specifically target topical issues (this goes for all periodicals, not just Penton's). May has an opportunity for anyone doing CompactPCI on FreeBSD. June has an opportunity for anyone doing FreeBSD with "system on a chip". July has "Java and Embedded Systems" and "Navigation". August would be good for FreeBSD cross-compilation tools and remote debugging. Etc. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message