Introduction
Welcome back, and sorry for the delay. Things got a little hectic in the Strategic Penguin Command Center of the Orbiting HQ, and we had to skip an edition. We are now back in action and ready to serve up another fine collection of Linux segments by our excellent community authors. Our newest writer, Matt Mondock, wrote an introduction to the Postfix mail transport agent, Ian Smith-Heisters wrote an introduction to encryption with GPG, and I wrote a brief introduction to the Deskbar utility for GNOME.
For those of you that didn't notice, Ian did a fantastic feature article about editing audio in Linux earlier this month. If you are interested in open-source audio production, you should definitely take a look.
Some of you probably saw Caesar's job announcement post on the front page earlier this month. In addition to looking for news writers and contributors to M-Dollar, we are also currently looking for people that are interested in writing for a planned Ars journal about Linux and open source topics.
At this time, there is no firm launch date, but we do want to get a preliminary idea about how much interest there is from potential participants. So far, five people have expressed a desire to participate, and many others have voiced their support for the idea. If there are any readers out there that are interested in becoming part-time, paid contributors for a Linux/FOSS journal, please let me know!
I would also like to see more community contributions for the Linux.Ars column. Unlike the future journal, column participants contribute voluntarily and aren't expected to make any kind of commitment. Linux.Ars contributors are given a lot of latitude, and I eagerly welcome good ideas no matter how eccentric or peculiar. I particularly like original ideas, so if you have a zany notion that you want to run with, please send me a message, I'm sure we can work something out. If you just want to contribute one or two short pieces for Linux.Ars, that is entirely acceptable. There are no obligations associated with participation, we just want creative content from real members of the Linux community.
If you want to be part of the Ars Technica Linux team, please send me an e-mail or an instant message. We are trying to put together a diverse group and we don't expect all of our participants to be programmers or system administrators, so if you have a background in something like web design or multimedia, you are still more than welcome to join us as long as you do what you do on an open platform. BSD users are also welcome and desired.
Linux.Ars is all about you, so don't be afraid to get involved! Want to do a section for a future edition? Have a suggestion for a topic that you want us to write about? I would love some feedback. We want your comments, complaints, suggestions, requests, free hardware, death threats, or disparaging remarks about my assorted deficiencies. Send me an e-mail or instant message, or post a comment in the discussion thread!
My contact information:
- e-mail: segphault@sbcglobal.net
- aim: segphault
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