[python-advocacy] Helping get Python in more publications?

[Sean Reifschneider]

FYI, I noticed that Sys Admin magazine has a "call for papers" for December
of 2008 about scripting for Sys Admins, and they specifically mention
Python.

Perhaps the PSF or the advocacy group would like to promote this:

   http://www.samag.com/ed/call.htm
   http://www.samag.com/ed/calendar.htm
   Proposals Due: 08/01/2007
   Manuscripts due: 09/01/2007

Showing up in the printed press can really help with getting people
interested in things like Python.

One thing that may also be worth kicking around is offering bounties for
publications promoting Python.  Part of the reason I say this is that I've
written for a number of publications in the past, and many of the more
open source oriented and receptive publications pay very little for an
article.

I've done one or two for Sys Admin, and one of the other Linux
publications.  They've paid around $300, which I think is a bit light.
Other publications I've written for (the HP-UX magazine, for example) paid
on the order of 5 times that.  SysAdmin I thought was barely worth it, at
least partly because of the 9 months I then spent trying to get them to
actually send me the check.

Anyway, just an idea.  In any case, if we get interest to write the article
above, I can definitely put candidates in contact with the editor I worked
with at Sys Admin.  Just thought I might bring up the idea of a bounty
when it came to me.

Sean
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