Re: gEDA-user: Article in Circuit Cellar, not quite there yet.

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

We discussed this amongst ourselves at the time.   It's not clear to
me if Spectrum takes submissions, or if you need to know somebody to
get in there.  

In any event, Spectrum is more of an academic magazine, whereas we
were trying to reach folks in the "real world", so CC seemed to be a
logical choice.  If somebody with pull at the IEEE is reading this &
wants an article, they are encouraged to contact us.

Stuart


> 
> How about trying IEEE's Spectrum?  It's unlikely you would get much
> space but you would get exposure to a much different audience.
> 
> John Dozsa
> 
> Stuart Brorson wrote:
> > 
> > Hi --
> > 
> > I'm happy to hear that the article is receiving notice!
> > 
> > > I have been a subscriber of CC for years and was very exited to see
> > > that there is a feature article on gEDA in issue #176 written by
> > > Stuart, Ales and Dan.
> > 
> > Yeah, thanks to Ales & Dan for their help with the article!
> > 
> > > CC does not very often mention open-source software as it is a
> > > HW-centric magazine (one of the few left out there) and the article
> > > stands out as something special. It is not a typical CC article and
> > > there is no assembler :-)
> > 
> > Heh.  We originally targeted EDN, but the EDA editor there was totally
> > allergic to open-source projects.  Therefore, we decided to look for
> > other venues.  Maybe we'll try EDN again in a year.
> > 
> > We decided to go to Circuit Cellar because CC's audience seems to be
> > engineers who like to play with both HW and SW.  It also has a strong
> > hobbiest/DIY readership.  Therefore, an article about gEDA is a
> > natural fit.  The articles are part of a campaign to "get the word
> > out".
> > 
> SNIP..
> > Stuart
> 
>