[Wftl-lug] No more TUX Magazine

[elliott-brennan]

> From: "Charles McColm" 
> Would desktop linux users regularly read Newsforge or Linux.com?

Hey Charles, I'm not really a hacker, more a 
desktop person and I read Slashdot, Linux.com and 
Newsforge 98 days out of a hundred :) Desktoplinux 
and others probably a bit less.

I quite liked Tux Mag and feel sad that it's not 
around.

I'd be quite keen to provide input. I'm always on 
the look out of new information and applications - 
more out of curiosity often.

As an example of my 'desktop' use I:

Make videos of my kids using Kino, DVD styler, Zs4 
GOPchop and Avidimux (as well as some CLI stuff)

Use GIMP a lot for graphic fiddling of photos, 
images, design etc (with a graphic tablet)

Use Xsane a lot (for scanning of course :))

Use Audacity of editing sound (which I then use in 
Kino or for other projects including disk burning)

Use Digikam and GTkam quite a bit

NVU (building my daughter's website)

Do video and CD ripping (e.g.. dvdshrink - okay, I 
admit it, I use this in the CLI)

Do video conferencing with rels overseas

I've even set up my Lightscribe burner on my 
Fedora laptop and would love to get into Scribus 
and Inkscape.

I mention all of this only because the range of 
things that I think you can do are so great, as a 
desktop user, that there is a huge variety of 
things to write about, highlight, provide 
information about, provide links to etc.

Oh, and I'd be very interested in providing input 
to the proposed project.

This LUG is very catholic (sorry Jon B, but you 
know what I mean :)) in it's membership and 
interests. It's also very friendly and helpful to 
it's members (thank you, thank you everyone) that 
I think a mag (.pdf, site-based whatever) would be 
very interesting, informative and useful and would 
have the potential for broadening the membership.

Okay, I'll stop there.

Regards,

Patrick



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