How about something like www.highfiber.org (not a member yet but I just lurk there for now)...People can post articles, make comments, have messageboard forums, upload files (you can only up/download if you are a member) and an online gallery...nice place.
Yes, I would love to find a common place to share information about experiences in OSS (e.g. been doing some wireless sniffing lately with Kismet) but I have no patience in making a web site.
Ambo
Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Miguel A Paraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>writes:
> haha. well it's a frustration borne by the number of tech lifestyle
> magazines, cellphone upgrade mania and such... while the ranks for the
> PLUG-level (or Windows 2003 Server-level, in fairness) techies are not
> increasing.
Personally:
- I don't really do print. I'd rather read stuff off the Web - at
least I can Google it quickly. Some people prefer print, though, but
can survive with Web.
- We have a number of existing Web-based ways to publish. Magazines.
Sites. Blogs.
- People who write code rarely write about writing code, at least
here. (Guilty. It can be much more fun writing new things than
explaining to other people how your old stuff works.)
+ I _really_ want to know what other OSS people are up to. I want to
know how and why people got into open source. I want to learn about
people's cool hacks, how they've given back to the community. I want
to find out about the software you can't live without - aside from the
well-known ones. (Yeah, yeah, Apache's really cool. ;) )
It's easy to grumble about the lack of a geek magazine, but why don't
we actually try writing those tech articles? We can try to get them
published through a number of means - Linux Journal offers a
substantial cash award, I think, and there's always Freshmeat and a
free T-shirt. We can also post them on our websites.
Write. Write about anything - your adventures with the kernel, a
newbie's look at a distro, the cool tweak you made to an open-source
program. Just write. Send us a link so that we can review it, add our
notes, blog it, spread the word.
When we've got critical mass of these articles floating around, _then_
we can get a geek magazine up and running without much more effort.
But if th e articles and the need aren't there...
Check out Dominique's column at http://sketches.kom.ph . He's cool.
I pledge to write, by the end of this month:
- one article about #linuxhelp
- one article about the way I became a free software maintainer
(planner.el - it's so obscure, but I get so thrilled whenever I get
e-mail from people elsewhere!)
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