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#teachingopensource Meeting
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Meeting started by sdziallas at 21:56:45 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teachingopensource/2010-10-25/teachingopensource.2010-10-25-21.56.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Writing articles for publication  (Jefro, 21:57:13)
  * LINK: http://www.linux.com/tour   (sdziallas, 22:03:52)
  * Education publications to check out: ACM SIGCSE Transactions, ASEE
    Prism, Chronicle of Higher Education  (mchua, 22:04:01)
  * 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)
  * another option: industry venues like IBM developerWorks  (mchua,
    22:11:50)
  * ACTION: come up with content ideas  (Jefro, 22:23:07)
  * ACTION: brainstorm & research possible venues  (Jefro, 22:23:24)
  * ACTION: keep publication goals in mind  (Jefro, 22:23:38)
  * ACTION: read the writer's guidelines for every potential venue
    (Jefro, 22:27:47)
  * LINK: http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Contact2/Write-for-Us
    (sdziallas, 22:29:18)
  * LINK: http://www.linux.com/tour   (sdziallas, 22:31:33)
  * LINK: http://lwn.net/op/AuthorGuide.lwn   (Jefro, 22:33:43)
  * ACTION: write a directed query and send to potential venus  (Jefro,
    22:34:53)
  * 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)

Meeting ended at 22:52:28 UTC.




Action Items
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* come up with content ideas
* brainstorm & research possible venues
* keep publication goals in mind
* read the writer's guidelines for every potential venue
* write a directed query and send to potential venus




Action Items, by person
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* **UNASSIGNED**
  * come up with content ideas
  * brainstorm & research possible venues
  * keep publication goals in mind
  * read the writer's guidelines for every potential venue
  * write a directed query and send to potential venus




People Present (lines said)
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* Jefro (92)
* sdziallas (54)
* mchua (28)
* zodbot (4)
* gregdek (1)




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