Re: Lack of FreeBSD coverage in the UK media

2007-05-01 Thread Ceri Davies
On 10/4/07 22:40, Christian Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Waring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We'd like to print more BSD articles but nobody is submitting any. (Standard reply at German LinuxTag when you ask the press people about this.) Surely there must be a reason why people

Re: Lack of FreeBSD coverage in the UK media

2007-04-08 Thread Paul Waring
Daniel Seuffert wrote: But don't forget: It's hard work and you need people doing this work. That's the problematic part and that's the main reason imho why we don't have more media attention... Is there not a project (other than this mailing list) within the work of the FreeBSD Foundation to

Re: Lack of FreeBSD coverage in the UK media

2007-04-08 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Paul Waring wrote: Daniel Seuffert wrote: But don't forget: It's hard work and you need people doing this work. That's the problematic part and that's the main reason imho why we don't have more media attention... Is there not a project (other than this mailing list) within the work of

Re: Lack of FreeBSD coverage in the UK media

2007-04-08 Thread Jim Stapleton
From my end I've never given this a thought. Thinking about it now, I'd happily praise the virtues of FreeBSD in an article (giving proportionally equal time to it's drawbacks... few that they are), except I don't subscribe to any Linux mags, so I've no clue even what they would want. Maybe

Re: Lack of FreeBSD coverage in the UK media

2007-04-08 Thread Paul Waring
Jim Stapleton wrote: I'd happily praise the virtues of FreeBSD in an article (giving proportionally equal time to it's drawbacks... few that they are), except I don't subscribe to any Linux mags, so I've no clue even what they would want. The feeling I get is that actually a lot of these

Re: Lack of FreeBSD coverage in the UK media

2007-04-06 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Ivan Voras wrote: Robert Watson wrote: Some things that might be neat to see articles about in the next six months as 7.0 approaches: I've had quite a few hits on my little summary what's cooking for 7.0 page, so I concurr the people are interested. I suggest to make

Re: Lack of FreeBSD coverage in the UK media

2007-04-04 Thread Ivan Voras
Robert Watson wrote: Some things that might be neat to see articles about in the next six months as 7.0 approaches: I've had quite a few hits on my little summary what's cooking for 7.0 page, so I concurr the people are interested. I suggest to make an official section on the www.freebsd.org

Re: Lack of FreeBSD coverage in the UK media

2007-03-28 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Daniel Seuffert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know much about the specific situation in the UK, but I can confirm BSD is not well represented in the media. We'd like to print more BSD articles but nobody is submitting any. (Standard reply at German LinuxTag when you ask the press people

Re: Lack of FreeBSD coverage in the UK media

2007-03-23 Thread Daniel Seuffert
Paul Waring wrote: I've noticed over the past few years that there has been a growing number of Linux magazines available in the UK (Linux Format, Linux Magazine and Linux User/Developer are the ones that immediately spring to mind), but there is still no widely available printed magazine

Re: Lack of FreeBSD coverage in the UK media

2007-03-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Paul Waring wrote: I've noticed over the past few years that there has been a growing number of Linux magazines available in the UK (Linux Format, Linux Magazine and Linux User/Developer are the ones that immediately spring What one can leverage with magazines depends on local turnover/

Re: Lack of FreeBSD coverage in the UK media

2007-03-23 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Best bet to be paid, might be to go for a USA / world distributed mag like Dr Dobbs, (that has a hopefully decent turnover to start with), sell an article to them simultaneously give them contacts ... This reminds me. I have offered to co-author