On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Stuart Brady <sbrady1215@xxxxxxxxx> 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/schedule> > 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/ > _______________________________________________ > Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
