Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 20:57:43 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com Cc: Kevin Weiss <kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Frustrating to read...ugh! Message-ID: <21357.918363463@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 Feb 1999 11:20:04 PST." <19990206112004.B6205@mooseriver.com>
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> 2 suggestions. 1, post the list of article ideas you have on the web. If > you don't have time put this list into a nice web page, send it to me and > I'll put up the page on BAFUG and FreeBSD can just link to this > page. suggestion 2, this advocacy person you are looking for, have them > write an article or 2. o FreeBSD as a super web server. o FreeBSD as a super mail server. o FreeBSD as a super news server. o FreeBSD as a super database server. o FreeBSD as a super desktop (they lie, we lie! :-). o How FreeBSD is saving my company. o How my company is saving FreeBSD. o What I did with FreeBSD on my summer vacation o FreeBSD for pregnant teens. o Open Source and Drug Abuse - a connection? (Psychology today) In other words, you name it and most magazines will take it. As I just finished explaining to someone else, most magazines don't actually *CARE* what they publish, just so long as each article doesn't contradict itself too much and is marginally topical (mentions the word "computer" somewhere in the body). Your average editor, especially in the free software world, hasn't got a clue about the topic and is mostly just looking for inches to fill for each upcoming issue. Give him 1500 words about something which looks topical and you're published - it doesn't matter if what you have to say is 99% crap. Just go look at some of the regurgitated dreck being published by the Linux advocacy camp sometime if you want to see the kinds of standard we've got to live up to here. :( - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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