Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 21:43:04 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: brian@pobox.com Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Marketing FreeBSD / FreeBSD as a pr Message-ID: <2228.934000984@localhost> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Aug 1999 15:00:25 PDT." <19990806220025.9847.rocketmail@web1003.mail.yahoo.com>
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> You're going to trivialize this discussion? This issue here The conversation started out on a trivial note when you went after an icon rather than a real shortcoming, I didn't turn it there. What *would* represent a non-trivial committment on your part would be a book or magazine article, as I've already mentioned, and if you're interested in getting yourself out of the realm of trivialities and into something substantive then the next step is honestly up to you. Others have asked me for pointers on this topic, so I'll provide a short, and by no means definitive, list here: Magazines: Dr. Dobbs Journal (have published several FreeBSD articles by Sean Eric Fagin already). Performance Computing (formerly Unix Review) SysAdmin Magazine (an especially good target) Linux Journal (yep, they will publish FreeBSD related stuff also) BYTE Magazine (the new electronic version - www.byte.com). PC Magazine iX Magazin (Germany) Unix User (Japan) For contact details, simply purchase a copy of the magazine of your choice and look on the masthead for the editorial board's address. You can also contribute to any of the fine FreeBSD-oriented electronic publications like www.daemonnews.org, www.freebsdzine.org, www.freebsddiary.com, www.freshmeat.net and even www.slashdot.org. Books: The following publishers have all expressed an interest in publishing [additional] books on FreeBSD and are *always* happy to receive an outline: IDG Books Addison-Wesley O'Reilly Prentice Hall SAMS If you plan on being at LinuxWorld, the Open Source conference or any upcoming tradeshow, that's also an excellent place to troll for publishers (and vice-versa). Finally, on the subject of the artwork used for the CDROMS, I've already said several times in these mailing lists that "the tailless waiter" is out and the old artwork back in, it'll simply have to wait for the publication of 3.3 for people to see this since we obviously aren't going to recall or stop shipping 3.2 CDs just because people don't like the artwork. :) And on that note, I think I've wasted enough time on this discussion and have nothing more to say on this matter. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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