On Wednesday 15 September 2010 12:27:36 Jos Poortvliet wrote: > Hi all, > > So the first article to promote our conference is almost done. Again many > points to Helen for the great work she did. > > Any last input you have - go to http://piratepad.net/DWALeHTOnL and add it > please! It needs a good conclusion, so anyone who feels he/she can add > something at the end after reading through the article, PLEASE do so! > > *** > > Considering how many peeps are on this list I wonder why there weren't more > contributions? Ya'll don't like writing, or don't have time? Or do you feel > you can't contribute? Cuz if it's the latter, please understand that 1000 > monkeys behind a typewriter can write shakespeare's euvre in 1000 years - so > even if we're not all perfect, we should be able to write good articles > together ;-) > > Seriously, just add, just brainstorm - others will go through and change and > improve until it is ready to be published. It is difficult to START writing > something - so a braindump already helps a lot. Fixing things up - that's > easy. > > So as I said, the OBS article is mostly done. Helen started a brainstorm on > the next one: the community track. Think about helping out! It is here: > http://piratepad.net/DdlhrMVV5a > > And we have more tracks - anyone can set up one of those, it's very easy. I > created a template page with some info here: http://piratepad.net/eCBfhJKr7C > It is essentially a how-to on setting up an article. Think about it if you > have some time! > > Cheers and tnx all, > Jos >
One more thing: translations! These articles, once done, might be interesting for our ambassadors to translate for their local countries. I am also contacting linux magazines and websites to publish them. We can ask our ambassadors to try and get the articles on the local websites in their country/area too! What'd ya think and how'd ya help?
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