Ubuntu Magazine [Was: On Ubuntu Marketing]

[Josh Kress]

Am Sonntag, den 24.10.2004, 23:54 +0100 schrieb John Levin: 

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> > - be more like a combinated computer and lifestyle magazine (like those
> > fancy dead trees in the Macintosh-(i)world)
> 
> As an OS X user, I know what you mean. Personally, I find the Mac 
> magazines very disappointing - they're all about buying stuff rather 
> than doing stuff. Even the tutorials they print are often about 
> Photoshop and Word.
> The other side of it is they show computers being used - to make art, 
> films etc - and not as an end in themselves.

I get the point and totally agree. Maybe I must outline my idea a little
more specific ;-) It was just mentioned as a part of the marketing
topic. However, if there is serious interest at this point, I will be
more specific on Thursday (I'm currently busy translating and will be at
LinuxWorld Expo in Frankfurt on Wednesday).

I'd also like to know what the documentation team thinks about it.

> >  <snip>
> 
Thanks
> > - maybe even a column which presents interesting social projects in
> > developing countries.
> >
> > Note on the last one: I don't want Ubuntu to look like the holy project
> > in the open source world, however I think this could be a interesting
> > mixture. Ubuntu emphasizes on humanity with it's name, so this idea 
> > just
> > takes this a little further.
> 
> There's a lot of interesting social projects outside the developing 
> world and across the whole world (the kernel itself!). Lots of 
> grassroots things happening everywhere. I see no reason to stick to the 
> 'developing world' -  there's really important things happening in the 
> west, like community wireless, hacklabs, computer recycling projects, 
> etc. And we can all learn from each other, whether we're in the east, 
> West, North or South.

Again I agree, there are a lot of interesting projects around the world
that aim to bring humanity/mankind a little further (Is this correct
english?). The 'developing world' was just the first idea that came to
my mind, when I wondered what topic to cover. A starter!

> 
> > Maybe not, what you expected, but hey: dicussion is open and fortunatly
> > there can be more than one magazine for different audiences.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Josh
> 
> PS: I know this is on the sounder list, and entitled On Ubuntu 
> Marketing, but the magazine idea certainly links with the documentation 
> effort, so I'm ccing to ubuntu docs.

Good idea. I'm curious what the doc-team is thinking about this.

> Also, would it be possible to make the magazine a package, so that each 
> issue could be downloaded through synaptic?

Technically it shouldn't be a problem. Let's keep that in mind and
discuss it as soon as the magazine is alive. Would really be a nice
option of delivery.

Regards,
-- 
Jörg 'Josh' Kreß                                         josh at kinjoo.com
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