Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 09:46:29 -0400 From: cliff ainsworth III <cliff@cliffsworld.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD E-Zine? Message-ID: <199807091347.IAA02105@micro.internexus.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.94.980708231654.1603B-100000@bb.cc.wa.us> References: <199807090441.VAA15980@newsguy.com>
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Something we also might consider when deciding on a format. BeOS's <http://www.be.com/aboutbe/benewsletter>; is a decent and informative format. Its an email only. Silicon Alley News <http://www.siliconalleynews.com>; is an email only but it actually duplicates what is on the site for that week. They catch readers coming and going. ZDNET and CNET, email specials where there is a paragraph teaser with a link back to the site for the full story. Will we have enough fresh articles for a once a week zine or every two weeks? It has to be consistent, we don't want to fall into UGU's once every month and a half or so mailing. After we get enough subscribers I guess it would be possible to charge to sponsor the mailing. Silicon Alley news has truly mastered that angle. Or will charging cause accounting problems on FreeBSD's end? If we follow the email w/website format.... I like the idea of the newbie column as we can redirect readers to those portions of the FreeBSD.org site. We could have a section of product launches. This would certainly get us noticed by companies that have products that run on FreeBSD. We could probably even have a bleeding edge section as well. Maybe highlights on people/entities working on real interesting uses of FreeBSD. An events section...etc. Although I think many things written about in the e-zine will probably be duplicated in the mailing lists, we might be able to grab a different audience with the e-zine. Why not have an international section as well? I think we should also track the events in Japan. They have a great user base as well. Maybe somebody on the Japanese end of FreeBSD could email us whats going on over there and we can include it. Maybe they would print what is happening over here in their local language version. We could do this with other languages too. And as much as I hate the word "webring" perhaps those of us who run our own sites would consider mirroring the zine on their sites and forming one. Count me in on it. We can never reach 100% market saturation but we certainly can aspire to it. This might be a great way to expand our community a little more. And what about a name for our e-'zine? How about "The FreeBSD Advocate" ? well........just a few ideas on the subject. -cliff -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* "Far better it is to dare mighty deeds then to take rank with those poor timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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