From nobody Sat Jan 08 02:42:05 2022 X-Original-To: freebsd-advocacy@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2A5B1937608; Sat, 8 Jan 2022 02:42:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from lax.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [45.32.70.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4JW49w57FXz4hCM; Sat, 8 Jan 2022 02:42:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (121-200-11-253.79c80b.mel.nbn.aussiebb.net [121.200.11.253]) by lax.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3B4E27356; Sat, 8 Jan 2022 02:42:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 14B552635C0; Sat, 8 Jan 2022 13:42:05 +1100 (AEDT) Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2022 13:42:05 +1100 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Request for help finding authors for a series about BSD Message-ID: <20220108024204.GD83846@eureka.lemis.com> References: List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-advocacy List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-3-5309-0418 Mobile: +61-490-494-038. Use only as instructed. WWW-Home-Page: https://www.FreeBSD X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4JW49w57FXz4hCM X-Spamd-Bar: --- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of grog@lemis.com has no SPF policy when checking 45.32.70.18) smtp.mailfrom=grog@lemis.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.80 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; FREEFALL_USER(0.00)[grog]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; MIME_GOOD(-0.20)[multipart/signed,text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[FreeBSD.org]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; HAS_ORG_HEADER(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-1.000]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; SIGNED_PGP(-2.00)[]; FORGED_SENDER(0.30)[grog@FreeBSD.org,grog@lemis.com]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[no SPF record]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+,1:+,2:~]; ASN(0.00)[asn:20473, ipnet:45.32.64.0/19, country:US]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[grog@FreeBSD.org,grog@lemis.com]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 ; 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 --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAmHY+fwACgkQIubykFB6QiOFZQCgo5h/tLmDwAzwovvLbV+UB/S9 caoAoJSEG5dyiFDf4GjAg4LN4QL0wK9k =cVTY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu--