Publishing note...

[Evan Leibovitch]

Colin McGregor wrote:
> There is a new editor at Tux Magazine if anyone is interested. In an e-mail I got earlier today I gather
> that Tony Mobily is taking over from Kevin Shockey, effective immediately. No idea as to why the change happened.
>   
Gawd, the folks at SSC just don't seem to know what to do with this.

> Evan Leibovitch - Tux Magazine
>   
There's a bit more; the Tux Magazine thing was a one-shot lark for which 
I still haven't been paid.

As for other stuff...

I'm happy to have encouraged people to migrate from SCO to Linux in 
1997, long before the lawsuit:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2062

Over the years I've done various pieces for an assortment of pubs, 
including two that I'm fairly proud of which appeared in peer-reviewed 
journals from IEEE and Harvard Law School.

I did roughly 100 columns for ZDNet as its resident open source 
columnist, until the ZDNet/CNet merge when they purged all columnists 
and took a more FUD-filled approach to FOSS.
http://telly.org/articles-zdnet

There's the quarterly piece that I still do for Computing Canada 
magazine (which later appears in itbusiness.ca -- my last one was 
http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/ComputerCanada/News.asp?id=40040&bSearch=True)

And then there's the occasional thing that's self published -- a piece I 
wrote in 1998, "the four phases of Linux acceptance", still attracts a 
good share of hits on my website: http://telly.org/4phases

So, yeah, I guess you could say that I write from time to time.

> Further while I know Linux Journal regular Marcel Gagne is (was?) local I am not sure if he is on the list.
>   
Don't know if he's on the list -- Marcel maintains his own virtial user 
group  at http://www.marcelgagne.com/wftl-lug.html -- but he is local 
(if you count Mississauga).

> No doubt I have missed some folks,
Chris Tyler, a CS instructor at Seneca at York, is an author for O'Reilly 
on Fedora.

> but still, does raise the question, do we have a large enough group of writers and/or want-a-be writers to set-up some sort of Linux writers group? Just a thought...
>   
Sounds like a good idea. I would keep it distinct from regular [New]TLUG 
meetings, though, as the issues and topics are radically different.

- Evan

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