Thanks for the reply, Ryan. I'll sort out Freenode and get logged in to the
magazine this week. I'll send you a mail when I'm done. Stuart
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 10:17, Ryan Lerch <rlerch(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Stuart Brady
<sbrady1215(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello Editorial Board,
>
> I'd like to start writing some articles for the magazine so here is my
> introduction.
>
> My name is Stuart Brady and I'm an English language arts and social
> studies
> teacher, currently working in the international sector in Tokyo, Japan.
> I'm
> not a super technical user of Fedora but for the last 18 months computing
> has become one of my main hobbies (I'm also a pretty obsessive runner). In
> that time, I've taught myself a little programming and built my own
> "janky" personal
>
website and blog <
https://stubrady78.github.io/>. I've also been running
> Fedora Linux on my personal/work laptop since last May and have become a
> real convert to the whole open source ethos. I've tried to educate myself
> about the system by reading your magazine, surfing the net when I have
> technical questions and working through How Linux Works
>
<
https://www.nostarch.com/howlinuxworks2> (recommended on the Linux
> Journey
> <
https://linuxjourney.com/> website). Oh, and I also attended the Open
> Source Summit
> <
>
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-source-summit-japan/program...
> >
> in Tokyo last week to give me a better understanding of the industry more
> generally.
>
> At this stage of my Linux development, I feel I can write some reasonable
> articles for users a bit like me so I'd like to make myself available.
> When
> I initially mailed Paul last week, he mentioned that I might get some help
> with things to write about (at least in the beginning). This would be
> perfect! Then I can get on with researching the topic, before producing
> the
> copy for editing. And, obviously, I'm more than happy to help editing the
> contributions of others as often as needed.
>
> As far as time commitments go, I'm willing to put a fair bit of effort
> (not
> sure about number of hours per week) into the research/writing/editing the
> articles as it will be a good learning experience. One caveat, however, is
> that I won't be able to regularly attend the online board meetings.
> There's
> a wicked time difference between Tokyo and the US and it would be
> miserable
> adding a predawn meeting to my current family/work schedule. Is that okay?
>
> Anyway, I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts and have a nice day.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stuart Brady
>
Welcome!
I'm in Australia, so it's great to have another contributor in a similar
timezone :) Just FYI, we all hang out in #fedora-magazine on freenode IRC,
feel free to jump in and say hi!
First up, have you seen this page [1]? It outlines the steps you need to
go through to get access to our wordpress instance. Once you have logged
into the magazine for the first time with a FAS account, i can jump in and
give you author status so you can start creating pitches.
Do you have any ideas for potential posts? there is a category of 'Starter
Pitches' in the wordpress authors interface with a few ideas, but feel free
to create your own pitch if there is something that you want to write about.
cheers,
Ryan Lerch
[1] -
https://fedoramagazine.org/writing-an-article-for-the-fedora-magazine/
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