On the future of LWN

Posted Jul 26, 2002 17:12 UTC (Fri) by neunets (guest, #2509)
Parent article: On the future of LWN

its very sad to learn about lwn's future. it might be silly but it can be done, some students can come forward and help you guys. they will write the articles and you just have to review and post it.
hoping best for lwn.net !!

On the future of LWN

Posted Jul 26, 2002 17:44 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] (1 responses)

It seems that you (neunets) really don't get it. Do you really think that there are students out there who can provide the kind of expert analysis that people like Jon Corbet and crew provide? If so, where are these people? What makes lwn unique is the quality of its writing. The other big Linux sites are just regurgitators, pointing to content that is generated elsewhere.

Maybe the only hope of preserving this resource is if LWN could merge somehow with one of the printed Linux publications. I wouldn't want to insult Linux Journal or Linux Magazine, but I frequently read both and while they have some good material, they don't achieve the same quality on a consistent basis that LWN does.

Perhaps a shift to a less frequent publication schedule could help keep the site going; combining this with donations might make this possible. But in the end I guess it depends on how the LWN staff feel. Do they still really want to make it work, or has burnout and frustration set in?

On the future of LWN

Posted Jul 28, 2002 6:08 UTC (Sun) by tclau (guest, #2894) [Link]

$15000 per month is quite an amount. How about you folks keep writing articles and let the others to do the misc. stuff? Remove some dynamic contents. E-mail the articles to a volunteer(student!? (: ). Let he/she post it and mirror it to several locations(from other volunteers). Set up a page/DNS which redirect to the mirrors in round robin manner. Will it save most of the cost and work? I think it is much easier for you folks to see it as a part time job and receive a small amount of donation as salary rather than running it as a true business.