Hi, I'm glad to hear there are plans to have an article link on the front page. (And even more happy to hear when someone has read what I've written and liked it. Thanks, Ben!).
I would like to know more about the review process. I am planning on more articles (in addition to what I am already working on), and would like to be involved in reviews of other articles that are being considered. max > Ben Rockwood wrote: >> Jim Grisanzio wrote: >> >>> I did a little blog pointing to the articles on opensolaris.org: >>> >>> http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris?entry=some_articles_on_opensolaris >>> >>> We'll eventually have to link to these from the front page. There are >>> few more articles written and in review (Solaris on laptops, a 3rd >>> driver article, a kernel comparison, and a piece on portability. We'll >>> release those as soon as they are done. >>> >>> For those of you who are new to the community: we had some articles >>> written (some light technical, some community profiles, etc) during >>> the pilot program, and we'd like to continue that function if you are >>> interested. Are you? If so, what publishing model is best for this >>> community? Who are the writers out there? When I say that I mean are >>> you interested in contributing articles, and how would you like to be >>> recognized for that contribution? And if so, would you like to help >>> work on an editorial plan to get us going past what we already have? I >>> think we need to figure out a way to incent people to contribute (to >>> write/edit/review) things like how-tos, profiles, case studies, >>> opinion pieces, feature articles, news, etc. In terms of style, I'm >>> thinking that the more magazine-like the better to distinguish this >>> editorial from documentation. >>> >>> We are working on a website editorial policy to sort of outline who >>> does what and where on the site generally. This "articles" section I'm >>> talking about is just one part of that, but we really began it back in >>> the pilot program. It'll all come together over time. >>> >>> Opinions? >> >> >> Question... did Sun pay for those profiles? > > > Yes. > > >> If so, why? > > We contracted with O'Reilly (two editors, in fact) during the pilot > program for the articles based on their work with other Sun open source > projects, most notably java.net. That contract has come to fruition, so > I'm looking for a new way to generate some content. "Why" specifically > is more difficult. The thinking back last year was to make the site more > of a magazine-style feel based on java.net but customized for Solaris > and the OpenSolaris community. Offering that is one of Oreilly's > services. The original vision never really materialized, so what we have > is a series of articles to build from. > > >> Reguarding the rest, I can write when time permits. Plenty of us are >> producing useful information, but "articles" in the traditional sense >> conflict directly with technical blogging. Many of our blog entries >> could be slightly reformed and presto-change you've got an article. > > I agree. But we need to lay out a 6 month or year long editorial plan to > pro-actively generate the content. We can also just re-work previous > blogs (the substantive ones) for articles, too. Good suggestion. > >> The Driver Programming articles by Max are awesome, I'd love to see more >> of those. > > He has two more in the works. > > Didn't Rich have some articles in the pipe too? > > Rich did a dev piece for the Studio tools guys separate from what I've > been trying to do. > >> benr. > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
