Towards 3.0

[Dirk Hohndel]

Lutz Vieweg <lvml at 5t9.de> writes:

> On 02/05/2013 07:36 PM, Holger Dinkel wrote:
>> What I can offer as help is helping writing and publishing an article describing
>> subsurface, its history and most importantly how to use it. I am typsetter for
>> the online magazine "www.freiesMagazin.de" (in german, sorry) which publishes free
>> (CC-BY-SA) articles about free software, open source and Linux on a monthly
>> basis.
>>
>> The german "about" page at http://subsurface.hohndel.org/de/about/ is already a
>> great start that can be used as a primer.
>>
>> I feel that an article about subsurface would fit very well into the context of
>> the magazine, being free software and such. I don't know how many of our readers
>> are divers, but the free license of the magazine would allow anybody to reuse,
>> translate and republish the article wherever he sees fit.
>
> I think an article in a non-diving specific magazine like
> freiesmagazin.de is worth the effort only if the same article can
> subsequently also be published in at least one popular diving specific
> publication. The license of freiesmagazin.de may allow that, but we
> should check if we can find any relevant diving-specific magazin that
> would also be fine with such a non-exclusive use.
>
> Should we contact the editors of magazines like "Tauchen",
> "Dive Inside", "Unterwasser" or alike and ask?

I am certainly ok with that.

/D