LINUX GAZETTE BACKGROUND https://internal/Departments/Technical/Web/LG contains technical documentation on LG, but it's out of date. ===== History of LG ===== - [#1, July 1995] Created by John Fisk. Dedicated to two simple ideas: * Making Linux a little more fun. * Sharing ideas and discoveries. - [#9, September 1996] SSC took over publication. Margorie Richardson (Margie) was the first Editor; she was also LJ's Editor. LG joined the Linux Documentation Project (LDP) around this time and started acquiring mirrors and translations. - [#42, June 1999] Mike Orr (Iron) became the second Editor. - [#94, August 2003] Jeff Tinsler became the third Editor, or Webmaster as it's now called. Somewhere along the way, LG joined the Linux Documentation Project (LDP), acquired mirrors in 47 countries, translations in 9 languages (or maybe 11 now), inclusion in Debian GNU/Linux and on LJ CD-ROMs and other CD-ROMs. All these are sponsored and maintained by their own organizations, not by LG. ===== FAQs ===== LG FAQ -- for readers, authors, Answer Gang members, Answer Gang querents http://www.linuxgazette.com/faq/index.html copying license -- http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html mirrors and translations -- http://www.linuxgazette.com/mirrors.html technical docs (out of date) -- https://www.ssc.com/internal/Departments/Technical/Web/LG/ site map (index of all articles) http://www.linuxgazette.com/lg_index.html ===== VOLUNTEERS ===== Heather Stern Formats The Mailbag, 2-Cent Tips and The Answer Gang. Contact in this order: [home] 408-374-7623, [cell] 408-761-4912, [pager] 800-938-4078. Ben Okopnik Answer Gang member. Jim Dennis The original Answer Guy. Michael Conry (Mick) Formats News Bytes. All the above are on tag-admin, as well as Dan Wilder and Don Marti. Several people have volunteered to be article proofreaders, see https://www.ssc.com/internal/Departments/Technical/Web/LG/volunteers.html but that file hasn't been updated recently. Other people who have offered to proofread are in /home/lg/Mail/proofreaders.new I have considered asking them to be volunteer editors; that is, they would format one article a month and handle contacting the author, fixing the HTML and deciding whether to publish the article, but I haven't asked them yet.