[drupal-docs] Linux User and Developer Magazine Article

[Charlie Lowe]

Rather than a rhetorical strategy of "here's Drupal, the features it 
has, and what it can do," why not approach it from "Drupal builds 
communities?" We can talk about the Drupal community, other Drupal 
communities, and in the process, explain what features it has, what it 
can do. Might make for a more interesting read :)

Robin Monks wrote:
> OK, I just received a response to my email to the editor.
> 
> We have 2,400 word across 3 pages with up to four good screen shots.
> 
> His response to style rules: "It can be technical, but not too 'step by 
> step' as we assume readers will follow up by reading documentation."
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Robin
> 
> On 10/10/05, *Robin Monks* <devlinks at gmail.com 
> <mailto:devlinks at gmail.com>> 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
>     <mailto: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
>         <mailto: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
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>> > Fax : +44 (0) 8700558749
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> 
>     -- 
>     Robin Monks,
>     CSL Web Administrator
>     robin at civicspacelabs.org <mailto:robin at civicspacelabs.org> 
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> Robin Monks,
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