On Tuesday 13 January 2009 22:11, Atanu Datta wrote: > > I had spoken in number of emails since 2006 asking LFY why > > couldn't they reproduce the article in an online format after the > > month is over and till date I haven't been able to see that > > happen. > > > > For e.g. look at December's issue. > > > > http://lfymag.com/archives.asp?author=Select+Author&month=12&year > >=2008&total=1&id=13&Submit=Search > > There's been some infrastructure problem. If you notice the LFY > brochure site that you've pointed to is on ASP, because it's > maintained and co-hosted by shared resources with the parent > company, which is EFY. > > The OpenITis.com site has been lying idle in alpha stage for a > while now, due to resource constraints. However, the good news is, > we now have a dedicated Web team again, with a background in social > networking, so things should be up and running at linuxforu.com > pretty soon. Of course, once the site is up and the articles are > uploaded, the CC-by-SA licensing would make a whole lot of sense. > > > I don't see any articles which I can read therein. There is of > > course the way (for e.g. Frederick and Niyam have their own > > sites) but what about other authors who don't have the time or > > the inclination or the space to do the same. > > > > Contrast this with the way http://lwn.net runs. > > > > They have articles which are paid for a week and then its in > > public domain. This is something that LFY should strive to do. > > And I don't think we as reading public would be averse to having > > a few ads done discreetly if that is what is needed to make it > > self-sustaining (as lwn.net) > > > > As I see this would give longevity to the articles and lot of > > IP/ideas/procedures/packages which otherwise would perhaps not > > survive. > > > > Atanu, what do you say? > > Point taken! I've been involved with the discussions about an > online presence for a while now and guess things should start going > online within a couple of months, if not sooner.
Besides online adverts seem to be all the rage nowadays. You might be missing a major opportunity here. IMO the efy small ads section was useful to me several times. However nowadays i use google. If EFY / LFY does as suggested by Shirish, i am sure you have a revenue stream, far greater than the print version is ever going to generate. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
