Re: Fedora Magazine: Interested in being an Author

Hi Ryan, I have already logged in with my FAS account, so I should be ready to go in Wordpress. I have a few ideas for pitches; I will try to draft some up this week. Thanks for your time! On 09/20/2015 07:19 PM, Ryan Lerch wrote: > On 09/20/2015 07:18 AM, Justin W. Flory wrote: >> Hello, >> >> My name is Justin and I have been a Fedora user for a few years now. I >> am currently a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and I >> was interested in looking into the possibility of contributing writing >> to the Fedora Magazine. >> >> Some of my ideas for how I might be able to contribute are with >> articles targeted towards college students and how they can use Fedora >> and the software available for Fedora to accomplish everyday tasks or >> have fun playing with their system. >> >> I am very interested in contributing towards the Magazine, and I look >> forward to hearing a response soon! Thanks for your time. >> >> >> >> > Welcome Justin! > > This kind of content would be perfect for the magazine! The best way to > start writing for the magazine is to propose a pitch (or many pitches :) > ). WE ask people to do this just to be sure that the content is suitable > for the magazine before the whole post is written. > > All a pitch is is a paragraph outlining the synopsis of your post, and > the base target audience. It doesn't need to be anything fancy, just a > clear outline of your proposed post. > > All you need to do is create a post in our Wordpress instance, and write > your pitch in there. If you already have a Fedora FAS account, you can > log into the magazine with that using these instructions -- > http://fedoramagazine.org/logging-into-fedora-magazine-with-fas/ > > Once you have logged in, ping this thread back and an editor can jump on > and grant you write access, and then you will be able to post your > pitch. > > WE have a weekly IRC meeting on Thursday evenings where we go through > all the pitches, and you are welcome to attend that too. > > cheers, and welcome to the magazine! > --ryanlerch >