[ubuntu-za] South African Ubuntu

[William Kinghorn]

the guys at Tectonic ( http://www.tectonic.co.za/ ) tried this a few
years ago, ask them 

The contact page on Tectonic is at
http://www.tectonic.co.za/?page_id=1955

William

>>> j3frea at gmail.com 11/03/08 11:09 AM >>>
I have often thought about a South African open source magazine, there's
Linux Format and Linux User and I think there are one or two others but
they're insanely priced... What do you people think the market would be
to
start up a South African OSS magazine - not specifically for Linux Users
(although largely aimed towards them), it could include Windows
applications
every week for Windows users (like Firefox etc.) and with stuff like
Ubuntu's wubi and live CDs Windows Users would have some use for it and
it
could expose them to OSS. For linux users it would be much the same as
Linux
Format; stuff like tutorials for bash, reviews of various office
packages,
reviews of the latest Distro etc.

Do you guys think this could work?


On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Morgan Collett <morgan at ubuntu.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 19:19, vincent <bullet at ballmail.co.za> wrote:
> > I was introduced to ubuntu through SA Computer magazine - They did a
> > review/install of 7.04 & spoke highly of it, when feisty first came
out.
> > They provide a free CD with mainly windows orientated aps as a cover
CD.
> > Maybe approach them to distribute an ubuntu CD, possibly 8.04 as
it's
> > LTS, along with their CD in the monthly mag? - Immediate
distribution to
> > computer interested folk.
>
> The author of the review, Steve Wood, contacted Craig Adams and myself
> for input, and requested CDs for the magazine. I contacted Canonical,
> who said that magazines must produce/supply the CDs themselves,
> although artwork etc is available. Since SACM distribute other
> software on their CD, they would have had to go to DVD to be able to
> include Ubuntu as well as the other stuff, and they didn't have the
> budget to do that.
>
> If anyone has any contacts at SACM or any other local magazine, we
> could try again...
>
> Regards
> Morgan
>
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