Return-Path: owner-linux-activists@Niksula.hut.fi Return-Path: Received: from joker.cs.hut.fi by keos.Helsinki.FI (4.1/SMI-4.1/40) id AA21879; Sun, 3 Oct 93 06:58:37 +0200 Received: from joker.cs.hut.fi by niksula.hut.fi id <62257-2>; Sun, 3 Oct 1993 06:57:59 +0200 From: "Linux Activists" To: "Linux-Activists" Reply-To: "Linux-Activists" X-Note1: Remember to put 'X-Mn-Key: DOC' to your mail body or header Subject: Linux-Activists - DOC Channel digest. 93-9-3-2:11 X-Mn-Key: DOC Sender: owner-linux-activists@Niksula.hut.fi Message-Id: <93Oct3.065759eet.62257-2@niksula.hut.fi> Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1993 06:57:51 +0200 Status: RO X-Status: Topics: Re: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Subject: Re: Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1993 00:42:39 +0200 Alan McConnell writes: >To summarize what most of you replied: there is evidently >very little traffic on this channel. One of you expressed the >hope that all participants are busy huddled over their keyboards >writing documentation; let us hope that this is indeed so :-) Well, some of us have jobs, etc. too. However, to assuage you, let me notify you that since the latest public release of the KHG, I have removed 10-20 pages and added something like 50. I have more to do before the next public release, but I am waiting until my current job ends (in a month) to get down to serious work on this and other Linux stuff. Keep your shirt on... :-) >But I am nonetheless surprised. I had previously posted the >following letter to the NORMAL channel: [post about press release deleted] >In response to this, at least one person informed me that I shouldn't >trouble myself about this, it had already been thought of, and the >DOC channel was abuzz with preparations for the Great Day. And now >I've joined and find the channel somnolent! Assuming it was my email that you were talking about, you are misrepresenting what I said. I don't think that I said that this work was currently being done on the DOC channel, although it was started here. I have a list of poeple who have volunteered to distribute the package to local media all over the globe, a draft has been written and revised, and will be more so before the 1.0 release, and volunteers collected. It dosn't take a buzzing channel to get this done -- in fact, news/mailing-list traffic level appears to be approximately inversely correlated with real work getting done, as a general usenet rule. >Are publicity preparations going on elsewhere? If they are >could someone inform me where? If they aren't, shouldn't they >be? They are going on, but nothing is happening *right now* because there's nothing to do *right now*. Please trust me -- just because this isn't being discussed right now, and was started before you thought about it doesn't mean it won't happen. I am buying a laser printer soon which will be used for my work on the DOC project, and I will be spending a lot of money on the publicity stuff, at least from my perspective. If you have ideas for publicity, go ahead and voice them, and be prepared to carry them out if people think they are good, and be prepared for varying opinions. What we currently have is a press release kit, including several typeset packages of various information, which is appropriate for release to the media. I am also considering creating two similar packets with different focii to mail to hardware and software vendors. Again, this will happen as I have time, but the goal is to have it ready by Linux 1.0. Don't worry -- If you have been mislead into thinking that version 1.0 is coming *SOON*, you can relax. It will come, but there will be significant advance warning. michaelkjohnson ------------------------------ End of DOC Digest ***************** ------- .