[plug]:starting a linux mag?

[John Knight]

Probably best to take the ubject header of dates out there, I've had a bit 
of experience, and a few 'ppl' have journalism degrees (from memory).

Make lunch, not war.





>
>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.



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