On Tuesday 13 January 2009 22:11, Atanu Datta wrote:
I had spoken in number of emails since 2006 asking LFY why couldn't they reproduce the article in an online format after the month is over and till date I haven't been able to see that happen.
For e.g. look at December's issue.
http://lfymag.com/archives.asp?author=Select+Author&month=12&year =2008&total=1&id=13&Submit=Search
There's been some infrastructure problem. If you notice the LFY brochure site that you've pointed to is on ASP, because it's maintained and co-hosted by shared resources with the parent company, which is EFY.
The OpenITis.com site has been lying idle in alpha stage for a while now, due to resource constraints. However, the good news is, we now have a dedicated Web team again, with a background in social networking, so things should be up and running at linuxforu.com pretty soon. Of course, once the site is up and the articles are uploaded, the CC-by-SA licensing would make a whole lot of sense.
I don't see any articles which I can read therein. There is of course the way (for e.g. Frederick and Niyam have their own sites) but what about other authors who don't have the time or the inclination or the space to do the same.
Contrast this with the way http://lwn.net runs.
They have articles which are paid for a week and then its in public domain. This is something that LFY should strive to do. And I don't think we as reading public would be averse to having a few ads done discreetly if that is what is needed to make it self-sustaining (as lwn.net)
As I see this would give longevity to the articles and lot of IP/ideas/procedures/packages which otherwise would perhaps not survive.
Atanu, what do you say?
Point taken! I've been involved with the discussions about an online presence for a while now and guess things should start going online within a couple of months, if not sooner.
Besides online adverts seem to be all the rage nowadays. You might be missing a major opportunity here. IMO the efy small ads section was useful to me several times. However nowadays i use google. If EFY / LFY does as suggested by Shirish, i am sure you have a revenue stream, far greater than the print version is ever going to generate.