[Actionchix] Increasing Wo/man power and the target market for the magazine

[Gita Lal]

On 22 Aug 2007, at 4:11a, Melissa Draper wrote:

> Feel free to disagree here, but I believe it would be wise if the
> magazine went beyond the boundaries of 'Linux', and was instead an  
> "Open
> Source" publication. This would broaden the target market, provide  
> more
> avenues for articles, and so forth.
>
> Taking this path would include other Open Source projects such as BSD,
> Drupal, PHP, etc.
>
> How do others feel about this idea?

I think this is totally cool. It would enable those of us (okay,  
well, it would enable *me*, anyway *grin*) who work with web-dev  
technologies, but maybe not yet Linux, to still participate and  
benefit from the publication. OS X is my main operating system, and  
while I intend to install Ubuntu on a virtual machine (VMWare  
Fusion), I don't have an objective in doing so any more clear-cut  
than "playing around." PHP and Drupal,  on the other hand, are two  
technologies I use and will use in a very practical way; so any  
instructional/informative articles about them will be immediately  
relevant to me. Oh! And, with Six Apart releasing an open-source  
version of Movable Type in the near future, I might even be able to  
contribute something useful. =)

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