From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Sep 13 10: 9:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from sword.cisco.com (sword.cisco.com [161.44.208.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFBB537B424 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:09:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sjt-u10.cisco.com (sjt-u10.cisco.com [161.44.208.184]) by sword.cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/8.6.5) with ESMTP id NAA00538 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:02:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Tremblett Received: (sjt@localhost) by sjt-u10.cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/CISCO.WS.1.2) id NAA04451 for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:09:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200009131709.NAA04451@sjt-u10.cisco.com> Subject: Re: BSD Magazine To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:09:53 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <85256959.0056E4CE.00@Deimos.smed.com> from "Joe.Warner@smed.com" at Sep 13, 2000 09:51:35 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] 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 +--- Joe.Warner@smed.com wrote: | | Why is everyone concerned with the traditional publishing model? | | I wouldn't say everyone but speaking for myself, I like something | that has great content, illustrations and something I can hold | in my hands and read. The same goes for books and reference | manuals. I don't know if it's because it's just what I'm used | to and I don't know if I would have the same preference if I | learned to read online and had never picked up a hard copy | publication. | How about the best of both worlds? A proposal could be made to Daemonnews or some other online publication to generate printable versions of their publications. Of course that would move the focus from the reader discussion solely onto the articles, which could be a factor. Not to say that the articles aren't significant, but these sites often take on a community-life of their own. These slashdot-style sites all have automated architectures - I doubt it would be a big deal to run an article set through some formatting templates and generate a printable newsletter to co-incide with the online version. It doesn't put it on a newsstand in front of Joe Average's face, but it is a start. Maybe computer stores with a BSD affinity could print a bunch and stack them with other free computer papers. Just a thought... -- Steve Tremblett Cisco Systems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message