Hi Alexander, Welcome! If you haven't already, take a look at the steps in "Writing an Article for the Fedora Magazine[1]. These howtos sound pretty great. Can you put together a pitch[2] for one or two that you're interested in? These "fun, color and tech drama" tools sound like they could collapse nicely into an "app picks" sort of article (or even a series). 1: https://fedoramagazine.org/writing-an-article-for-the-fedora-magazine/ 2: https://fedoramagazine.org/writing-a-new-pitch/ On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 3:01 PM, Alexander Tolstoy <a.a.tolstoy(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

Just closing the loop here -- this was approved and Alexander is writing his first article for us for (hopefully) next week publication! Great idea and looking forward to seeing this, Alexander. Paul On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 03:34:06PM +0300, Alexander Tolstoy wrote: > Hello, > Here's my pitch with some (hopefully) great findings for command line users. > https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=21964&preview=true > > вс, 15 июл. 2018 г. в 7:11, Link Dupont <link(a)sub-pop.net&gt;: > > > Hi Alexander, > > > > Welcome! If you haven't already, take a look at the steps in "Writing > > an Article for the Fedora Magazine[1]. > > > > These howtos sound pretty great. Can you put together a pitch[2] for > > one or two that you're interested in? These "fun, color and tech drama" > > tools sound like they could collapse nicely into an "app picks" sort of > > article (or even a series). > > > > 1: > > https://fedoramagazine.org/writing-an-article-for-the-fedora-magazine/ > > 2: https://fedoramagazine.org/writing-a-new-pitch/ > > > > On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 3:01 PM, Alexander Tolstoy > > <a.a.tolstoy(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > > Hello everyone! > > > I also wish to get on board and write for Fedora Magazine. My > > > acquaintance > > > with this Linux distro dates back to the very first version of Fedora > > > Core > > > 1 in fall of 2003 and continued (although with interruptions) up to > > > the > > > current Fedora 28 release. I'm a tech journalist, not a developer, but > > > through the past years I've collected a solid background of writing > > > about > > > open source software, and my Fedora installation has often been a > > > testbed > > > for it. Since 2010 I write for Linux Format, in which I currently > > > head the > > > Hotpicks section. > > > I've got a lot of proposals, both fun and serious, about amusement and > > > productivity apps that fall into certain groups. I can't immediately > > > write > > > about several apps of the same kind for Hotpicks, but I can possibly > > > do > > > brief how-tos for Fedora Magazine. Here's an example: > > > Add some fun, color and tech drama to your terminal with No More > > > Secrets > > > <https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets>;, Lolcat > > > <https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat>;, Chafa > > > <https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa> and Browsh > > > <https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh>;. > > > The serious part may be about, say, converting your ext4 partition to > > > btrfs, or xfs, or whatever without loosing data. It's not a fiction > > > <https://github.com/cosmos72/fstransform>! > > > So, I humbly think I can be helpful for Fedora users... > > >