The Free Software Magazine, Issue 01, has just been published by Free Software Foundation, China Academy or FSF-China. It is available in html and pdf and printed copies can also be ordered from the publisher.
The content is also available from a mirror in the USA at www.free- soft.org.
This magazine is supported by the FSF and is dedicated specifically to free software. Its includes technical articles, news and essays about free software projects and of general interests to the community.
About Free Software Magazine
Free Software Managzine is a free (the "free" in freedom) magazine devoted to the global free software community. It is published in online electronic form on the web (www.rons.net.cn) and in printed paper copies by RON's Datacom Co., Ltd.. with the direct support of Free Software Foundation, and Free Software Foundation, China Academy. We invite you to read and contribute.
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I push the "back" button and the post page is visited twice. Sorry about this.
Advogato really should add a feature to allow users to edit or to delete already posted articles.
Andy, if you elect yourself to be a sales representative for FSF-China, please accept my genuine applause.
But i have to say you must device a right strategy for promoting healthy FSF babyfood in a relatively new market. It's aweful silly to publish an ads of selling FSF babyfood ready for China market on a journal whose readers are mostly nutritionists specialized in the design of FSF food chains.
Simply putting out postings like "hey, we have a FSF babyfood ready for China market, please buy from us and spread words around!" wouldn't help you much. It seems more appropiate for you to write up postings from a different angle. To solicit support, you should ask questions like: i want to promote and sell FSF babyfood in China, what nutrients should i put in my recipe? Can anyone share their marketing data, ups and downs of selling FSF product and service in other parts of asia market?
I could be wrong. Maybe you are a good engineer but your approach to promote and sell your product is very lame.
OFFTOPIC: In reply to your request for editing/deleting features, editing the article can render many, if not all, responses to it invalid or confusing. I'd rather there be a large neon warning screaming at you that once you've posted, it's posted, no going back, etc. ;-) Your diary makes a good peer-review-before-posting area, if you really need one.
However, there probably ought to be a multi-posting filter, as this has happened a few times now. Preferably, something that just prevents someone from posting a main-page article more than once in a ten minute period or so, but at the very least, an exact-duplicate filter ought to be in place to keep the front page from cluttering up and pushing current articles out of the way.
The software could allow an author to delete an article iff there have been no replies yet, for up to some time period (say an hour) after posting. That would give people a chance to clean up mistakes.
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