I've just now submitted the final version of the article to OSNews.
Thank you to all who reviewed and contributed to the article, I think it really helped solidify it. I trimmed the final version down considerably for conciseness and to streamline the flow (i.e., more focus on booleans, less about how the project works). Plus I figure this leaves more topics for future Inkscape article writers. :-)
I considered submitting to Linux Journal but opted for OSNews instead, since they've just recently printed something about Inkscape, and since being online-only they'll hopefully get it out on the wire sooner than a print+online magazine would.
I've taken my own copy of the article offline, pending the publication, but if you're interested in seeing a preview, the latest is in CVS.
Bryce
On Fri, 21 May 2004, Jon Phillips wrote:
Yeah, I think you should go for online and print. Try to get it printed first however, because then they'll put it online...and then link it to osnews and whatnot. Keep notes on your procedure! I have like 10 articles in the can now with this damn book.
Jon
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 11:18, Alan Horkan wrote:
On Fri, 21 May 2004, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 10:52:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> To: Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> Cc: Kees Cook <inkscape@...62...>, Inkscape Developer Mailing List inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] listed before sodipodi
On Fri, 21 May 2004, Alan Horkan wrote:
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Kees Cook wrote:
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 19:07:20 -0700 From: Kees Cook <inkscape@...62...> To: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] listed before sodipodi
on page 2, inkscape is mentioned! :)
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7102
One dude doesn't know it's name, though ("inkspace").
Inkspace is a pretty cool name too!
We actually gave 'Inkspace' some consideration when we picked the name, but liked the imagery of 'Inkscape' better. I remember when the project first started, many of us had some difficulty training our fingers to type the latter instead of the former, so I wouldn't fault new users from doing the same. :-)
It looks as if the editor made no effort to spell or grammar check the article in any way but I'm told that OSNews has always been like that.
How widely read is OSNews? Would it be worth publishing my article there? (I've heard nothing from LWN as of yet.)
I think it gets a fair bit of coverage, and occassionally a tonne of coverage if Slashdot is interested enough to like to a story. I was largely ambivalent to OSNews but this article was very poorly edited and now I am starting to dislike OSNews.
If you are going to mention your story to other outlets I'd suggest you suggest it to a few differnt sources. I expect GnomeDesktop.org would pick it up in a heartbeat but I dont think it has a wide audience but it would provide an interested enthusiastic audience.
I think it would be great if you contacted magazines like Linux Journal (and Linux Format, and Linux Magazine) and offered to do an interview about Inkscape.
- Alan
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