Re: Articles needed for a special edition of a magazine about Ubuntu Flavors

[Elizabeth Krumbach]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Shawn Nguyen  wrote:
> Hi, can I be added to the team so I can edit the docs on launchpad? Thanks!

You'll need to apply so I can approve you (or give me your LP id)

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Re: Articles needed for a special edition of a magazine about Ubuntu Flavors

[Shawn Nguyen]

Hi, can I be added to the team so I can edit the docs on launchpad? Thanks!

-Shawn


On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:

> On 26/03/13 18:18, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Just got notes back from the magazine editor, we can begin writing! I
>> liked Jackson's idea for collaboratively editing them all. Each of us
>> will still write our own, just have it available as a collaborative
>> document either with Google Docs or pad.ubuntu.com just in case we get
>> busy/pulled way or whatever we'll at least have a start (if you aren't
>> a member of the team that can edit things on pad.ubuntu.com you can
>> request to be added, I'm an admin of the etherpad launchpad team).
>>
>> Each article should be 2 to 8 printed pages, each page should expect
>> to have have 2500 characters and 2 screen shots/images.
>>
>> For reference, he also wrote:
>>
>> "Please remember to keep community and technical subjects wisely balanced.
>> First, we'd like to convince people to Xubuntu. When they find this OS
>> exciting - we can show them a community path.
>> Anyway, I consider an article "Experiences, challenges and the reasons
>> I settled on Xubuntu" as a technical one :)"
>>
>> As a reminder, here's the list of articles:
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**Xubuntu/Marketing/Magazine2013
>>
>> If you see one that's "Unassigned" please volunteer to write it! And
>> it looks like we could use a couple more "get excited about Xubuntu"
>> articles:)
>>
>
> I just updated 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**Xubuntu/Marketing/Magazine2013and
>  added links to pads for each article.
>
> I'd like to give "assigned authors" some time to create the backbone for
> their article before others start contributing or editing them too much. If
> you're going to do big changes, please be in touch with the assigned
> authors and ask what their original idea was.
>
> Generally, use common sense and if in doubt, step down and ask for consent
> and/or assistance.
>
> If you need any guidance with the articles generaly, you can be in touch
> with me or Elizabeth and we'll sort things out.
>
> Cheers,
> Pasi
>
>
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Re: Articles needed for a special edition of a magazine about Ubuntu Flavors

[David James]

Sorry for the delayed reply, I fell ill over the weekend.

I have been using Linux for around 6 months now.  I only use it personally,
as at work we are a purely MS company.

Cheers,

Dave


On 28 February 2013 06:17, Elizabeth Krumbach  wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 2:37 PM, David James 
> wrote:
> > Hi Elizabeth,
> >
> > I'm quite new to the world Linux and have actually just switched to
> Xubuntu
> > from Linux Mint (Cinnamon).  I would be more than happy to write up my
> > experiences, challenges and the reasons I settled on this distro.
> >
> > Let me know if this sounds like the type of thing you would be interested
> > in...
>
> This kind of user journey is a very interesting proposal. How long
> have you been using Linux?
>
> Thanks David!
>
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