[plug] linux mag meeting date, was:starting a linux mag?

[Peter J. Nicol]

Gentlefolk!

As a bit of sceptic as to whether a mag could be gotten up or not, may I ask
the following questions:

1.	How many of you maggers have contributed to the PLUG website?
2.	How many have written anything remotely like a 'HOWTO' for any part of
linux?
3.	How many have any writing experience at all?

It'd be a damn site easier to get a website up and running with quality
content and try and build an audience that way.  A few mates of mine tried
with 'linuxpapers' and didn't get too far.  They had the content, just
no-one committed enough to keep it all going.

This is about all I can find about it now:

http://sitereview.org/?article=54

My mate (one of the 'founders') is still around, I think he edits for an
Italian linux magazine called 'Dev' and apparently just wrote a few chapters
for a upcoming book about securing Apache.

Getting a mag out is a seriously big effort, and I doubt that it could be
done.  However, I would be pleased to be proved incorrect.  In the mean
time, why don't we kill two birds with one stone, save a stitch in time,
[insert cliche here], and try and get some quality content together, and
host it on the PLUG website, with proviso to re-purpose it for the magazine
later if we think it is good enough?

I would be happy to help out editing, as it would not eat too much into my
other committments.  This would be a good way of proving a few things.  That
is, Can we write?, Can we edit?, Can we sustain an effort?, and Are we any
good?  If the answers are Yes, then I would be more hopeful for a magazine.
So would a few other people possibly.  Like financiers, publishers,
advertisers, distributors and printers.

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Hook [mailto:hooker at iinet.net.au]
>  Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 4:07 PM
>  To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>  Subject: Re: [plug] linux mag meeting date, was:starting a linux mag?
>
>
>  Any of those dates is OK for me.
>
>  The Hooker
>
>
>  John Knight wrote:
>
>  > Okay, been having a gander at our calender and been searching
>  for dates, I
>  > assume a Saturday would be good by everyone, yes? Going by
>  what's good by
>  my
>  > mate and I, these are good dates:
>  >
>  > 30th of nov
>  > 7th of dec
>  > 14th "
>  > 28th "
>  >
>  > Whoever's interested in the idea, we want to know what's good
>  for you too
>  so
>  > we can come up with a good time for all from these dates. Then the next
>  > question comes to mind, where?
>  >
>  > halten sie, tomaten! <- bad german
>  >
>  > Make lunch, not war.
>  >
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