Fedora Magazine: Interested in being an Author

[Ryan Lerch]

On 09/21/2015 11:45 AM, Justin W. Flory wrote:
> 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
>>
>
Awesome!

You are all set with permissions now too, so you should be able to 
create new posts in the wordpress interface.

cheers,
ryanlerch