[plug] starting a linux mag?

[Shayne]

Hey. Count me in if you do.
That Journalism degree of mines gotta be usefull for something!

Keep in mind that as a limited audience (sadly) mag, you'll have a hard
time getting distributer.

Perhaps just generating content to sell to APC etc would do be groovy.
Ie "give us 15 pages an issue and we'll fill it with penguin juice".

On Friday 15 November 2002 01:20, sscott at iinet.net.au wrote:
> > G'day all!
> > A thought struck me the other day (I had a headache tablet and went to
>
> bed
>
> > from the force of it -chortle-chortle), we don't have any Linux
>
> magazines of
>
> > our own (that I'm aware of) in Australia and I figure that maybe I
>
> should
>
> > start one? I have no idea what I'm up for, what's involved, etc, but I'm
> > willing to have a crack at it and I figure that there'd be a few
>
> interested,
>
> > potential 'co-workers' in PLUG or CA? ;)
> >
> > Throw it at me people (at least throw useful things that aren't sharp),
>
> are
>
> > we gonna do it??? :D
>
> Good idea. Develop a core team of linux boffins to write articles and
> approach a publisher? Or are you thinking of more of a 'fanzine'?
>
> APC went very linuxy for a while but backed off for some reason - perhaps
> they thought that linux needed its own magazine?
>
> Mark me as interested.
>
> > Make lunch, not war.
> >
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