[plug] starting a linux mag?

[Chris Caston]

Of course there could be an offical magazine of the Perth Linux Users
Group.

On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 12:55, John Knight wrote:
> Well I'd be pushing for making a magazine, not starting a hobby (NO TIME AT 
> ALL FOR TWADDLE LIKE THAT). We most certainly have a market for a magazine, 
> because it's not about having another to read, but having a mag to read that 
> doesn't cost $18 dollars because it's imported, it seems rather defeatist to 
> just let the idea of a local mag go, right?
> 
> Make lunch, not war.
> 
> >
> > > Maybe consider making it a webzine at first while you're looking for
> > > a distributer.  Of course, that makes it more difficult to make the
> > > transition to dead-tree format further down the track.
> >
> >
> >I doubt there's much space left in the market for another general or
> >newsy Linux magazine, but perhaps one aimed at developers and
> >sysadmins would be sufficiently differentiated to establish a niche,
> >even if a small one initially.  One like that would also, as it
> >happens, fit the profile of publishing the kind of article I decribe
> >above (think Dr Dobbs for Linux).
> >
> >[1] http://www.theperlreview.com/
> >[2] http://www.tpj.com/
> >
> >Colin
> 
> 
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