[plug] starting a linux mag?

[Chris Caston]

So will this be Perth based or will it be national?

I suppose there would not be enough time to get it launched at the conf?

On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 08:56, John Knight wrote:
> G'day all!
> Well I was hoping this would be a team project, so if we set upa wwebpage 
> with some kind of forum system, that'd probably help this all out (didn't 
> someone suggest that earlier?). Anyway, onto what content I was thinking of:
> 
> We have the usual inbox/opinion sections, articles written by people working 
> for the mag about current issues, a tech help part, all of the usual things 
> in a PC mag, with a few special things of our own. I was thinking of a 
> 'Project of the Month' section, where people send in their project ideas 
> with a detailed explanation of what their proggy/project would do, and over 
> the page would be feedback on last month's project. This would help spur on 
> developers and help people starting projects get a team together, plus they 
> could get useful feedback for their idea (provided they can wait a month).
> 
> The kind of target audience I was thinking of would be the kind that read 
> magazines like APC and PC User etc, intermediate but not advanced. Advanced 
> people already have enough help as it is, so a few articles on the usual, 
> 'how to set up your firewall with <insert acronym> encryption' for the mahor 
> tech heads, and things geared towards the usual games, desktop, multimedia, 
> productivity, graphics, etc, for the less learned of us. ;)
> 
> There is a growing audience of people that have never used Linux before and 
> don't really know much about Windows either that are jumping n on the scene 
> that need helping too, so perhaps about 5-10 pages of the mag dedicated to 
> the newbies would be a reader-drawer.
> 
> With the CDs, everyone's after the latest distro release or updates, so 
> that'd be good to include, plus the other mags tend to shy away from 
> multimedia and games on their cover CDs, with the usual filler being SSH 
> updates etc. If we cater more for the average user, then not only would we 
> be targeting a bigger reader audience (I hope), but we'd be drawing in the 
> newer crowd to Linux, the kind that use Mandrake. ;)
> 
> Do we have a market for it? Of courses we do, what has PC Powerplay got over 
> PC Gamer US/UK? A great big price difference, Australian currency usage, 
> local advertising, use of Australian speech, local goings-on that are 
> actually useful for Aussies, the list goes on........ why should Linux be 
> any different?
> 
> Make lunch, not war.
> 
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