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@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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
