KC Linux Journal idea

[Hall, Tony, JCW]

I'd say I have to agree... I know a few other people who might be interested
also.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rusty [mailto:kujayhawkbb at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 1:08 PM
To: Jared Smith; kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: KC Linux Journal idea

For something of decent quality and useablity, I'd pay twice that much...

--- Jared Smith <jared at trios.org> wrote:
> There are roughly 250 people on this e-mail list, IIRC.
> 
> If it were possible to have a snail mailing list of 1,000 and an 
> areawide distribution of another 4,000, for a total of 5,000, it would 
> be cost-effective to produce a local KC Linux Journal, paid for 
> largely by local advertising. This would be a quality (signal-to-noise 
> wise) publication dedicated to integrating
> 
> Linux and other Open Source software into homes, small businesses, 
> etc.
> 
> I believe this will eventually happen. My question is,
> is now the time? Are there 1,000 people in the Kansas
> City area who are interested enough in Linux to subscribe? Free 
> newstand copies would probably go quickly out of curiousity's sake, 
> but it is a solid subscriber base that will be attractive to 
> advertisers. Would you pay $12 a year for a quality local Linux mag? 
> Or should it be free? What do you think?
> 
> -Jared
> 
> 
> 
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> majordomo at kclug.org Enter without the quotes in body of message 

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