Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:48:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: dannyman@dannyland.org (dannyman) Cc: kline@thought.org, opsys@mail.webspan.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <199804110448.VAA19507@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <19980410225442.14664@urh.uiuc.edu> from dannyman at "Apr 10, 98 10:54:42 pm"
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According to dannyman: > On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 10:47:18AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > I was a writer several lifetimes ago, and altho tech writing > > is nearly beyond me (it ain't easy, folks), I'd be willing > > to invest time in a *BSD magazine. > > Getting a magazine up and running can be real rough. It seems as if > Jordan hasn't exactly had a cakewalk with the newsletter either. A safer > approach, imho, might be to try something on the web - less capital risk, > and we could see how things work out first before trying to jump into pulp, > and attract interested contributors. > > Getting people to volunteer to write articles, even if you have an editor > in place, can be real PITA. > Pulp or electrons (plus the newslettre). If webzine were well-done, it could be one of the starting points. There need to be several. I plan to continue with the ports group and my devel app work, and would contribute to any zine. Organizing any volunteer effort is a pain; at least initially. Once going, things develop their own inertia. (Like Project Gutenberg.) Anybody up for this? -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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