[drupal-docs] Linux User and Developer Magazine Article

[Bèr Kessels]

Some possible focuses could be:
* Use drupal for promotion and development of your application
* Drupal as developer platform

the second one is clear i guess; but the first one may need some more 
explanantion.
I did a lecture/presentation for a whole lot of FLOSS developers and advocates 
once, where I presented drupal this way. Drupal as a perfect CMS for the 
homepage of your application. Gwenview is an example of such a site. 
It can hold issues, (support)forum, screenshot gallery, cvs logs, 
documentation (books) and off course blogs or news. 

If the reader base is indeed mostly linux developers, I think that is a very 
good focus. A sort of introductional tutorial on how to install drupal (on 
sourceforge) to become a nice looking homepage for the application you 
develop.
Bèr

On Monday 10 October 2005 15:24, Robin Monks wrote:
> Sorry for not being here over the weekend.
>
> I agree with Roberts approach of having a "pool" of writers. I know there a
> many good and extremely talented writers in the community and that together
> we could write an encyclopedia of Drupal :-)
>
> I'm going to email the head editor and see how much of the spotlight we can
> have. I'd be interested in knowing everyone's opinion on the focus of this
> article. Drupal has such a wide feature set, such a powerful API and such a
> large community that we will need to focus the article down to just a
> sampling of Drupal's full power and potential (but still give people an
> idea of the full picture).
>
> Also, we'll need to decide if this will focus on the aging Drupal 4.6 or on
> what will soon be Drupal 4.7, and we'll need appropriate screen shots to go
> with it.
>
> Robin
>
> On 10/9/05, Robert Castelo <robert.castelo at cortextcommunications.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've handed this over to Robin Monks.
> >
> > I was just thinking, it might be a good idea to create a pool of
> > writers and approach other magazines offering to provide them with
> > articles about Drupal.
> >
> > There's probably quite a few that will be interested in good quality
> > articles, it's good for the writer's CV, and it's good publicity for
> > Drupal.
> >
> > On 9 Oct 2005, at 15:10, Charlie Lowe wrote:
> > > If someone decides to take the lead on this, I'd be glad to help out.
> > >
> > > Kobus Myburgh wrote:
> > >> Something I can help with here?
> > >> Regards,
> > >> Kobus
> > >>
> > >>>>> robert.castelo at cortextcommunications.com 10/8/2005 1:59 AM >>>
> > >>
> > >> Hi,
> > >> I helped represent Drupal at the LinuxWorld Expo 2005 in London this
> > >> week, and was approached with an interesting offer...
> > >> The editor of Linux User and Developer magazine, a UK based magazine
> > >> which is also available in the U.S., wants to include a 3 page
> > >> article on Drupal, to be written by the Drupal documentation team.
> > >> If someone wants to organise this with other volunteers from the Docs
> > >> team please get in touch with me, I'll pass on his email address to
> > >> you, and he can give you the details.
> > >> Here's a picture of the man himself...
> > >> http://www.cortextcommunications.com/node/99 Best regards,
> > >> Robert Castelo
> > >> Services Manager
> > >> Cortext Communications
> > >> http://www.cortextcommunications.com Tel : +44 (0) 20 8746 0117
> > >> Fax : +44 (0) 8700558749
> > >> 49 Greenside Road
> > >> London W12 9JQ
> > >> United Kingdom
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