Request for help finding authors for a series about BSD
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Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2022 02:42:05 UTC
I've just received this message from Andy Oram, who was my editor at O'Reilly. I can't help him directly, but maybe one of you can. You can reply to him at Andrew Oram <andyo@praxagora.com>; I'd appreciate being kept in the loop, at least at the beginning. Greg On Friday, 7 January 2022 at 5:54:43 -0500, Andy Oram wrote: > Among my clients, as a freelance writer and editor, I work for the Linux > Professional Institute. It might seem strange that I'm contacting you on > behalf of an organization with "Linux" in the title, but it would be > reasonable to say that, when LPI was formed in the 1990s, "Linux" was a > synecdoche (a word worth looking up if you don't know it) for free and open > source software. So actually, LPI is interested in promoting many types of > free and open source software, and it actually has a certification program > for BSD: > > https://www.lpi.org/our-certifications/bsd-overview > > LPI worked closely with the FreeBSD project to create the certification. > LPI also published the long article you helped me with, about the history > of Unix with a big focus on BSD. > > Now LPI wants to write a series of articles about current uses of BSD. I > think our readers would be most impressed by people who adopted it > recently--not with long-running, legacy installations. Could you help me > recruit authors? > > -- > Andy -- he, him, his > Memoir: Three Decades of Computing, Communities, and Critiques > https://praxagora.com/backtraces/ -- Sent from my desktop computer. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA.php