#teachingopensource Meeting

Meeting summary

1. Writing articles for publication (Jefro, 21:57:13)
   1. http://www.linux.com/tour (sdziallas, 22:03:52)
   2. Education publications to check out: ACM SIGCSE Transactions, ASEE Prism, Chronicle of Higher Education (mchua, 22:04:01)
   3. Education publications, continued: IEEE Spectrum... in general, these societies have "student magazines" but I think it'd be better to go straight for the real thing (mchua, 22:04:48)
   4. another option: industry venues like IBM developerWorks (mchua, 22:11:50)
   5. ACTION: come up with content ideas (Jefro, 22:23:07)
   6. ACTION: brainstorm & research possible venues (Jefro, 22:23:24)
   7. ACTION: keep publication goals in mind (Jefro, 22:23:38)
   8. ACTION: read the writer's guidelines for every potential venue (Jefro, 22:27:47)
   9. http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Contact2/Write-for-Us (sdziallas, 22:29:18)
   10. http://www.linux.com/tour (sdziallas, 22:31:33)
   11. http://lwn.net/op/AuthorGuide.lwn (Jefro, 22:33:43)
   12. ACTION: write a directed query and send to potential venus (Jefro, 22:34:53)
   13. sample query contents with examples: Contact [Jeffrey Osier-Mixon, addr, email, etc] - Title [Open Source Hardware: How & Why It Works] - Topic Area [Open Source] - Brief Description [1-2 short paragraphs] - Target Audience [Embedded systems developers, open source advocates] - Proposed Outline [short desc. of each section] (Jefro, 22:38:11)

Action items

1. come up with content ideas
2. brainstorm & research possible venues
3. keep publication goals in mind
4. read the writer's guidelines for every potential venue
5. write a directed query and send to potential venus

People present (lines said)

1. Jefro (92)
2. sdziallas (54)
3. mchua (28)
4. zodbot (4)
5. gregdek (1)