From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Sep 13 7:54:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 744D937B423; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 07:54:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA70069; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:54:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:54:25 -0400 From: Michael Lucas To: Chris Coleman Cc: Ignacio Cristerna , freebsd newbies , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD Magazine Message-ID: <20000913105425.B70024@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20000913102805.A69843@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from chrisc@vmunix.com on Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:45:21AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:45:21AM -0400, Chris Coleman wrote: > We did approach someone last year, but they said the market wasn't ready > yet. I don't know if it will be now or not. I doubt it is, sadly. The "real world" (i.e., everything not on the Web) doesn't see much in print about BSD. This needs to change before we see a BSD mag. Remember, publishing houses half dismiss the Web, and half quake in their boots over it. While DN publishes some very high-quality pieces, it (from real-world POV) doesn't count nearly as much as the same number of articles in print would. Moral of the story: do things the hard way, submit BSD articles to print magazines. They're not nearly as nice to work with as the web ones, but that's what we *need*. Also, if anyone does start a print magazine, I want a column. :) ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message