Fedora Magazine: Interested in being an Author

Justin W. Flory jflory7 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 01:45:42 UTC 2015


Hi Ryan,

I have already logged in with my FAS account, so I should be ready to go 
in Wordpress. I have a few ideas for pitches; I will try to draft some 
up this week. Thanks for your time!

On 09/20/2015 07:19 PM, Ryan Lerch wrote:
> On 09/20/2015 07:18 AM, Justin W. Flory wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> My name is Justin and I have been a Fedora user for a few years now. I
>> am currently a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and I
>> was interested in looking into the possibility of contributing writing
>> to the Fedora Magazine.
>>
>> Some of my ideas for how I might be able to contribute are with
>> articles targeted towards college students and how they can use Fedora
>> and the software available for Fedora to accomplish everyday tasks or
>> have fun playing with their system.
>>
>> I am very interested in contributing towards the Magazine, and I look
>> forward to hearing a response soon! Thanks for your time.
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Welcome Justin!
>
> This kind of content would be perfect for the magazine! The best way to
> start writing for the magazine is to propose a pitch (or many pitches :)
> ). WE ask people to do this just to be sure that the content is suitable
> for the magazine before the whole post is written.
>
> All a pitch is is a paragraph outlining the synopsis of your post, and
> the base target audience. It doesn't need to be anything fancy, just a
> clear outline of your proposed post.
>
> All you need to do is create a post in our Wordpress instance, and write
> your pitch in there. If you already have a Fedora FAS account, you can
> log into the magazine with that using these instructions --
> http://fedoramagazine.org/logging-into-fedora-magazine-with-fas/
>
> Once you have logged in, ping this thread back and an editor can jump on
> and grant you write access, and then you will be able to post your pitch.
>
> WE have a weekly IRC meeting on Thursday evenings where we go through
> all the pitches, and you are welcome to attend that too.
>
> cheers, and welcome to the magazine!
> --ryanlerch
>

-- 
Cheers,
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Justin W. Flory
jflory7 at gmail.com

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