If English is your native language and you are a technology or an OS savvy person, maybe you would like to join the OSNews Crew. OSNews needs people who enjoy writting feature articles, reviews and/or editorials and can deliver at least two or three of these articles each month (guidelines available). If you are up to the task, please let us know. If you are a developer (in this case, we couldn’t care less about your native language, let C/C++ talk), who would like to write articles about algorithms, OS-related coding, OS techniques etc, we are also very interesting to host your article.We also have to mention that OSNews is non-profit (our banner ads just pay for our bandwidth), our team is ‘working’ for the fun of it, so at this point in time we can’t really pay. OSNews gets between 10 and 12,000 individual pageviews every day, while when a longer article is published, we are usually linked from other online publications, resulting going up to 40, 50 and even 90,000 pageviews per day (depends on the article). Join us today!
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About The Author
Eugenia Loli
Ex-programmer, ex-editor in chief at OSNews.com, now a visual artist/filmmaker.
Follow me on Twitter @EugeniaLoli
it sounds pretty good, I think that the idea will boost this site, if I only could write good in english…
English isn’t mi native language but people like me can try. . . i think.
This is my second site for news (after slashdot). . . i was found interesting articles here and more colaboration is a good idea.
Darn if I only had more time
Are you looking for more in house feature articles written about OSes or someone to help take the pressure off of posting articles?
…more feature articles. We can handle about 5 plain news items per day and 1-2 longer articles per week. But we need more longer, feature articles from english speaking people, things like OS-related reviews (or product reviews about *important* apps like Apache, or programming languages, or OSes, or Photoshop-like apps etc), hardware reviews, editorials, interviews, industry analysis and of course, programming articles about for example, how to design a VM, or a filesystem, or how to hack the Linux/BSD kernel or how to write drivers or a tutorial for QT etc etc. Also, people who can write reviews for RiscOS, or Amiga 4.0, or for IRIX, or for Solaris etc are very welcome.<P>Make sure you send us your article in plain text format as an attachment (do not copy/paste it in the email and do not use HTML) and if you have accompanied screenshots, http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=168“>read we provide how to save them down in an appropriate format and send them to us as .ziped.
Please let me know if you have more questions. Let’s make OSNews a bit more community driven!
I forgot to add that full credit will be given to the author. The article will bear the author’s name, and it will even have 3-4 lines at the end of the article as introduction of who you are (if you want to, of course) and maybe even a small photo (64×64 pixels) of you.
How about OSNews adds a code-/reference center?
Semaphores, bootloaders, smp, protected mode, interrupt handline, file formats etc, is things you need to know in order to write a great? os.
handling not handline.
I am interested in posting some news to OSNews community but my English is not good enough. Also I don’t think I can do it on a regular basis due to the lack of time. Anyway if you are interested in some news from Russia you can get me in
If only I could spell consistently and had the motivation to write a long feature once a week 🙁 it is something I would like to do but I don’t think I would met the dead lines
i was thinking that if there were no deadlines, more people would atleast give it a try. i too would like to help out. unfortunately, my time is very limited.
maybe there should be some setup where as anyone can submit an article, whenever they can find time, and then have someone from osnews look it over, and give it the “ok”, or the boot (re-write/fix errors).
this is just my two-cents, but i feel it would be more fitting for the readers, as many of us barely have enough time to check this page every day.
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…becoming a bit more lamer friendly? say adding a crash course on an OS aspect(bootloaders, protected mode, file formats, you name it) once a month? maybe something to allow laymen (like me) to follow the conversations a bit more easily? say an article comparing/explaining the differences between blahOS and OSbleh, or even with a previous version of OblahS? once every month of course, just to attract the non-coders without hearing complaints from the people who are already frequenting this site. it all depends on the direction osnews wants to expand to.
hmm the last thing i want to see is osnews dumb itself down and have things like ‘this is how to write a bootsector’ that appears on every other os hobbyist site. there are already good references for os info out there for others like chris’s http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles os resource center etc.
osreviews are one thing but ‘tutorials’ i think, are not something osnews needs, they are either going to be to ‘basic’ that anyone should know from os theory/design books or too advanced to comprehend. (the later would be fine ofcourse;). dont ‘dumb’ down os news! i like the simple news+interviews+osreviews. i dont want crappy tutorials or yet another file archive of intel386.txt
We don’t really have a scrict deadliine, if you can send us even just 1-2 articles per month, that would be good too.
>i like the simple news+interviews+osreviews.
Exactly! This site is good as it is, don’t try to cover all OS related topics. Stick to your name which is OS-NEWS.
BTW:
you’re sure you’d only like native speakers for contributing? Maybe someone could edit (check the grammar, fix some expressions etc. )the articles of Non-english speakers?
>you’re sure you’d only like native speakers for contributing?
For the non-programming articles, yes. I mean, I can write longer articles and I can normally manage OSNews just fine, but I am really bad at syntax, and lots of people do not show mercy when reading my articles (english words with greek syntax).
However, I guess, if you are not an english speaking person and you really want to write something, send it over. But I can’t promise that the article will be edited by a Pro-English speaker, it will most probably be me. And I am not native english speaker either. The rest of the guys here in OSNews are really-really busy with their ‘real lives’ to edit someone else’s articles (I don’t work since I moved to US last May, so I got plenty of time to kill
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Eugenia-
Thanks for the quick reply, I’ll get the fingers typing away.
Just wanted to join the fray here as well by saying that NON NATIVE engilsh speakers are welcome to drop their articles, reviews, reports, etc. my way prior to posting, for editing. I have some journalism training (including editing and advanced journalism), I am a native speaker, I can read some Spanish and French, and if it will help the cause, I have the time to edit.
The mail address is [email protected].
Thanks
JW
A female Greek Geek 🙂 cool……
and hey!!! get off the dole 😉
–note to reader
the previouse comments were all jokes. do not get offended
In any communication the important thing is to be understood. IMO everything else is “icing on the cake.” I’ve always been very impressed with the postings I’ve seen here and elsewhere of people who do not speak English as their first language (including you, Eugenia!) Anyone who “picks nits” about their language skills IMO needs to find something better to do.
Ansis5….
It is “Nit Pick about there language” not “Pick Nit”…….
Geeze!!!!!!……..*Throws arms up in the air and walks out of the room* 😉
Hey I don’t mind doing a bit of proofreading in my spare time. English is my first language, and I have no problem with spelling or grammar, really
I can speak ‘un peu’ of French 😉
Hey Eugenia, if you have any articles you’d like proof’d, I can do it as long as it’s not on short notice… send it over to me with an email address to get clarifications on, give me at least a couple of days, and I can do it for ya (lots of non-internet down time these days, unfortunately)… just say the word.
Deej
Thanks Deej, Quacko, juswhitaker.
So, non-english speaking people, now you too can send us articles for publication.