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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Alright guys (More on Magazine)...
From:       Philippe Fremy <phil () freehackers ! org>
Date:       2006-03-08 18:22:58
Message-ID: 440F2102.10009 () freehackers ! org
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	Hi,

This magazine thing is very exciting.

There previous attempts in the past that failed. You probably want to
have a closer look on why they did not succeed and take that into account.

From my point of view, the obstacles were:
- a lot of stuff is already published on the dot, so does it make sense
to put it back into a magazine ?
- getting some content from the magazine is not easy. You need a good
deal of content to make the magazine interesting. That means comitted
writers, or more work for you to find stuff to publish.
- Editing (in the sense of organising the articles) takes a lot of time.
 You need to be dedicated to it.

That said, I think there are a lot of positivie energies here and a lot
of things deserving publication. We see a lot of very interesting blog
entries that could very well make it into a magazine.

Going bi-monthly sounds very ambitious to me. Are you sure that you
won't run out of content after two editions ?

I like the Qt quarterly and if once every 3 month is not so often, the
articles are always interesting to read and I would not want to miss any.

All my best for your project.

	Philippe

Mike Martel wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> Thanks for the response about the name, it was just a bit of a prototype, so I 
> didn't think much of it at the time of writing. 
> 
> I'm game for trying to get this into as many languages as possible, as I can 
> write in English and I could get most articles into French, if needed.
> 
> Basically, we just need to work on a site design now, and I agree with the 
> idea of making a "pilot" issue. 
> 
> If anybody wants to talk directly with me over Jabber/Google Talk, you are 
> more than welcome to at: "mmartel.linux -at- gmail -dot- com"
> 
> If a few of you all decide to add me on Jabber, we can, fairly quickly, get a 
> "final" draft of what we'll do up, and we can post it back to here. The 
> quicker we get to work, the quicker we'll have a full-and-running magazine 
> up :)
> 
> I look forward to collaborating more with you all,
> 
> Mike Martel
> 
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