[openbeos] Newsletter articles

Hey all...

DarkWyrm is busy enough with coding chores, so I'm taking over 
Newsletter editing duties, for now anyway. So send your newsletter 
articles to:

danielre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Now...

The third newsletter is coming up this weekend. Let's submit some 
articles gosh durnit! I'd like to see a wider participation in this 
than we've had so far. The newsletter is not supposed to be the 
'Michael Phipps Journal'. Don't get me wrong, Michael's articles are 
well written and interesting. But we need to hear from other people 
too.

I'm sure most of the developers who are actively researching/coding 
have made all kinds of interesting observations along the way. Share 
them!

For example, Ithamar made mention a few weeks back about discovering 
that BeOS scripting was a good way to test and understand the Printing 
protocol. That could be a good article. Erik has been fighting away 
with BArchivable and has unleashed some interesting nuggets about the 
internals of object instantiation and image loading. That could be a 
good article.  Robert Medeiros has made comments in the past about his 
hopes for the Game Kit. That could be a good article. Michael 
Noisternig is a walking gold mine of information on assembler tricks 
and kernel internals -- there's probably several good articles that 
could be made from this. Marcus Overhagen has been battling away with 
the mighty Media Kit and surely has a tale or two to tell.

No, I am not picking on the people above. These are just some examples 
that pop into my head. I'm sure there are others.

Now, I'm sure some of you are thinking that writing an article might be 
a lot of work. Some people are intimated with the idea of a "blank 
piece of paper". But we all have to do writing all the time anyway -- 
documenting, communication, etc. So you can't escape it. So use 
articles to your advantage. It can be a good experience. It can allow 
you to stop, catch your breath, and take a look at what you've been 
doing and where you're going. You can use it to summarize your work and 
your thinking. I think you'll like the effect. And, of course, the rest 
of the world would love to hear what you're doing.

Some people are under the impression that nothing is happening with 
this project because the CVS repos is still relatively empty. But we 
know otherwise. So let's tell 'em what we're doing!

Ok, end of bitch session/motivation speech

Later
peace
keep the faith
right on brother

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