On Friday 20 April 2012 17:12:12 Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 16:54 -0500, Ricardo Chung wrote:
Bryen,
All FOSS magazines I know come from other countries ( Mostly English speakers, UK, US, AU: Linux Journal, Linux Magazine, Linux User , Linux Pro, Linux Format, ), * Linux Magazine - http://www.linux-magazine.com * Linux Journal - http://www.linuxjournal.com * Linux World - http://www.linuxworld.com * Linux Today PR - http://www.linuxtoday.com * Linux For You - http://www.lfymag.com * Linux Mag - http://www.linux-mag.com * Linux Format - http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/ * Linux User and Developer - http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/ * Red Hat Magazine - http://magazine.redhat.com/ * Full Circle Magazine - http://fullcirclemagazine.org/
There are some magazines specially coming from Spain (Todo Linux, Linux +)
*Linux+: http://lpmagazine.org/es *Tuxinfo: http://www.tuxinfo.com.ar/tuxinfo/ *Begins: http://www.revistabegins.org/ *Linvix: http://linvix.wordpress.com/ *Atix: http://atix.opentelematics.org/
*Linux Magazine: http://www.linux-magazine.es/issue/60 *Todo Linux: http://www.iberprensa.com/todolinux/todolinux.htm
Regards,
Thank you Ricardo, this is *VERY* helpful and I'm sure Jos appreciates this awesome list that he'll be able to reference and add to his cache of press contacts for openSUSE.
Yes, I'll go over the list now, check which magazines we don't have contact with and mail them to add them to our list. Thanks!
New question: Since you mention that most of these publications are external from Central America, I am curious what do most people in the Central America FOSS community rely on to follow news about events? Are there major non-"non-official-media" bloggers that people follow? Is there anyone we can contact to ask them to publish our information on their blogs?
Also, what about social media sites? I know there is a openSUSE Honduras facebook page created by itxshell. And Sebastian showed me a GoSH (openSUSE Guatemala users group) website a long time ago. Let's figure out those as well and ask them to promote/publish our announcements as well.
As you know, I am very interested in making sure our Summit is bi-lingual so that we can join the nearby communities in US and Latin America. We need your help to continually spread the word. It is important that we get Spanish-speakers to submit CfP's or we won't actually have bi-lingual event. So we're counting on you guys to be our Spanish-language marketeers! :-)
Yeah, when it comes to contacting them - you guys and girls need to help. I wonder, do you think they'd appreciate getting information from us, even if it is in English? The Spanish magazines, I mean... I don't think we can realistically handle setting up a multi-language press lists like the English we have but journalists might know enough English to translate the stuff from the English list for their local readers... I mean, most of the FOSS news is English anyway. Do you think I should ask them too? In that case we might want to ask our ambassadors and marketeers to ask more magazines for their info details so we can mail them too.
Again, many thanks so far to all of you for your great work!
Bryen