Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 07:39:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Coleman <chris@bb.cc.wa.us> To: cliff ainsworth III <cliff@cliffsworld.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD E-Zine? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.94.980709073255.5608B-100000@bb.cc.wa.us> In-Reply-To: <199807091347.IAA02105@micro.internexus.net>
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On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, cliff ainsworth III wrote: > > Something we also might consider when deciding on a format. > > BeOS's <http://www.be.com/aboutbe/benewsletter>; is a decent and informative > format. Its an email only. Silicon Alley News > <http://www.siliconalleynews.com>; is an email only but it actually > duplicates what is on the site for that week. They catch readers coming and > going. ZDNET and CNET, email specials where there is a paragraph teaser > with a link back to the site for the full story. This is kinda what I plan to do with the RQN. Publish the RQN over e-mail and get everybody's attention and point them to the E-zine. > > Will we have enough fresh articles for a once a week zine or every two > weeks? It has to be consistent, we don't want to fall into UGU's once every > month and a half or so mailing. This will depend on how many people we get. I am going to shoot for a longer time between publishings. As we get submissions and such, publish more frequently. I plan the RealQuick Newsletter for a monthly mailing, and get enough stuff to mail it bi-weekly. I'm just trying to be realistic as we start out. > After we get enough subscribers I guess it would be possible to charge to > sponsor the mailing. Silicon Alley news has truly mastered that angle. Or > will charging cause accounting problems on FreeBSD's end? This will take some thought, but it is worth consideration. > > If we follow the email w/website format.... > > I like the idea of the newbie column as we can redirect readers to those > portions of the FreeBSD.org site. We could have a section of product > launches. This would certainly get us noticed by companies that have > products that run on FreeBSD. We could probably even have a bleeding edge > section as well. Maybe highlights on people/entities working on real > interesting uses of FreeBSD. An events section...etc. Although I think many > things written about in the e-zine will probably be duplicated in the > mailing lists, we might be able to grab a different audience with the e-zine. > > Why not have an international section as well? > > I think we should also track the events in Japan. They have a great user > base as well. Maybe somebody on the Japanese end of FreeBSD could email us > whats going on over there and we can include it. Maybe they would print > what is happening over here in their local language version. We could do > this with other languages too. > > And as much as I hate the word "webring" perhaps those of us who run our > own sites would consider mirroring the zine on their sites and forming one. > Count me in on it. We can never reach 100% market saturation but we > certainly can aspire to it. This might be a great way to expand our > community a little more. Lots of wonderful Ideas. I like them. > > And what about a name for our e-'zine? How about "The FreeBSD Advocate" ? Any Objections to this name? I kinda like it. Christopher J. Coleman (whyareyou@lookingforme.com) Computer Support Analyst I (509)-762-6341 FreeBSD Book Project: http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/ > -cliff > > -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > "Far better it is to dare mighty deeds then to take rank with > those poor timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat" > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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