[ubuntu-za] South African Ubuntu

Hilton Theunissen hilton at inkululeko.co.za
Mon Nov 3 09:26:52 GMT 2008


James great idea, Tectonic had a great mag, I also investigated local 
printing of a linux mag about 3years ago. Alastair of Tectonic is the 
expert here

James just do it, I will subscribe


Kind regards.

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James Cuénod wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:morgan at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 19:19, vincent <bullet at ballmail.co.za
>     <mailto: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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