From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 10 21:59:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA15870 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:59:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tera.com (tera.tera.com [207.108.223.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA15855 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:58:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tera.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) with UUCP id VAA25002; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:57:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) id VAA19507; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:48:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <199804110448.VAA19507@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" In-Reply-To: <19980410225442.14664@urh.uiuc.edu> from dannyman at "Apr 10, 98 10:54:42 pm" To: dannyman@dannyland.org (dannyman) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:48:10 -0700 (PDT) Cc: kline@thought.org, opsys@mail.webspan.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: <> thought.org: public access uNix in service... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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