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On 30/11/2007, Olivier Fisette <ribosome@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Friday, 30 November 2007 at 11:55:28 am, Camille Huot wrote: |
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> > Did he tell you how much we would be paid to write this edition? |
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> It honestly did not even cross my mind to ask, as I assumed that would be |
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> volunteer work for promoting Gentoo. Now you mention it, however, it seems a |
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> bit odd to make money selling a magazine whose articles were written by |
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> volunteers... I am not familiar at all with how such things work. Anyone else |
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> want to comment on that? I am certain someone from the PR team has seen a |
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> similar situation before. |
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I did a 3 page review for Linux Format a couple of years back and was |
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paid £250 for it. Not sure how many words were involved but plenty of |
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screenshots and links to documentation were there to fill it up :) |
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Probably took a good 8-10 hours work though, getting things "just |
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right" for a magazine to publish is time consuming. |
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