Miguel A Paraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > haha. well it's a frustration borne by the number of tech lifestyle > magazines, cellphone upgrade mania and such... while the ranks for the > PLUG-level (or Windows 2003 Server-level, in fairness) techies are not > increasing.
Personally: - I don't really do print. I'd rather read stuff off the Web - at least I can Google it quickly. Some people prefer print, though, but can survive with Web. - We have a number of existing Web-based ways to publish. Magazines. Sites. Blogs. - People who write code rarely write about writing code, at least here. (Guilty. It can be much more fun writing new things than explaining to other people how your old stuff works.) + I _really_ want to know what other OSS people are up to. I want to know how and why people got into open source. I want to learn about people's cool hacks, how they've given back to the community. I want to find out about the software you can't live without - aside from the well-known ones. (Yeah, yeah, Apache's really cool. ;) ) It's easy to grumble about the lack of a geek magazine, but why don't we actually try writing those tech articles? We can try to get them published through a number of means - Linux Journal offers a substantial cash award, I think, and there's always Freshmeat and a free T-shirt. We can also post them on our websites. Write. Write about anything - your adventures with the kernel, a newbie's look at a distro, the cool tweak you made to an open-source program. Just write. Send us a link so that we can review it, add our notes, blog it, spread the word. When we've got critical mass of these articles floating around, _then_ we can get a geek magazine up and running without much more effort. But if the articles and the need aren't there... Check out Dominique's column at http://sketches.kom.ph . He's cool. I pledge to write, by the end of this month: - one article about #linuxhelp - one article about the way I became a free software maintainer (planner.el - it's so obscure, but I get so thrilled whenever I get e-mail from people elsewhere!) -- Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Ateneo CS faculty geekette interests: emacs, gnu/linux, making computer science education fun http://sacha.free.net.ph/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
