[ubuntu-uk] [uk-marketing] Writing for your local rag

[Chris Rowson]

Hi All,

I've just moved into a village from a town, and came home today from
work to discover a village magazine posted through my door. I'd never
really thought about it before, but that's a heck of a marketing
opportunity.

I called the number inside and asked the chap who edits the magazine
if he'd like to run an article on Ubuntu. Despite responding initially
that they had a guy who wrote about computers (from the local
Microsoft based shop), he agreed to take a look at something if I sent
it.

I wonder how many of the rest of you get small community magazines
through the door? Combine the readership of all of these magazines and
I'm guessing that there would be quite a few potential new users.

So - my proposal.

I want to write something for this magazine. I thought I'd run off a
draft and post it to the wiki. From there you can use it, edit it or
write your own from scratch (but please post your own writing back to
the wiki and share it) for sending to these small publications.

Together I was hoping that we could build some good articles by
collaborating on one and others, and submitting our own (should you
enjoy writing). That way, people who don't want to/can't/don't have
time to write for themselves, can choose an article and submit it to
there local publication.

Cheers

Chris