On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 05:00:55PM +0100, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 07:00:32AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > >>>>> "Dave" == Dave Cross <d...@dave.org.uk> writes: > > > > Dave> Does anyone pay for Perl articles these days? :-) > > > > I got paid for one a few years back. > > > > Nothing like the heyday of the 255 paid articles I wrote during the > > dotcom boom. > > > > The French "GNU/Linux Magazine" (http://www.ed-diamond.com/index.php#homelm) > would still pay us, if we managed to write articles for them. :-)
That sounds like people don't have the time sufficient to write articles. Are there people for whom translating articles to French is easier? > And as bonus (because we accept to get paid a little less), the articles > are put under a CC-ND-NC license after a few months, and end up here: > http://articles.mongueurs.net/ > > You'll need to write in French, though. And get paid in Euro. ie, is there a viable split of the payment such that it's enough to motivate a team of two, where one writes in English and the other translates? (and I don't know if any of the German language publications will pay, in which case, translating to both for near-enough simultaneous publication might pay three people better than one publication pays two) Please note, I'm not looking to write articles (paid or not). But I can see that having more articles about the Perl programming language* would be a good thing, and I'm not sure if anyone has suggested this approach before. Nicholas Clark * Maybe the highly rigorous method behind Tiobe's index is simply to search the various London user groups' list archives for traffic. If so, that would explain a lot. Perhaps someone should name a programming language Beer. To see how fast its ranking rises. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=PAHBZImmXsI#t=1153s "So it turns out there's a big overlap between people who like computer programming and people who like beer" (I found all 35 minutes of that keynote is worth watching.)
