I'm interested in the article too. Maybe you can arrange something with the editors if even the creator of org-mode is interested in the article?
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 9 apr. 2013, at 10:46, Thorsten Jolitz <tjol...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 42 147 <aeus...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> This might be considered off-topic. >> >> Maybe not? I know of a fantastic Lisp dialect and >> web/database programming-environment out there >> >> ,------------------------------------ >> | PicoLisp >> | http://picolisp.com/5000/!wiki?home >> `------------------------------------ >> >> that suffers exactly from the rather low conversion rate of people to >> it, which is kind of hard to explain given its quality. >> >> But maybe Paul Graham is right in >> http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html, at least with regards to >> programming languages: >> >> ,------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> | A friend of mine once told an eminent operating systems expert that he >> | wanted to design a really good programming language. The expert told him >> | that it would be a waste of time, that programming languages don't >> | become popular or unpopular based on their merits, and so no matter how >> | good his language was, no one would use it. At least, that was what had >> | happened to the language he had designed. >> `------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> And just like I try to spell the word about amazing PicoLisp with this >> email, I wrote an Org-mode article in the student magazine of my former >> German distance university with the title >> >> ,------------------------------------------------------ >> | Self-organization with Org-mode for distance students >> `------------------------------------------------------ > > > I would be interested to read this article. Can you make it available? > > - Carsten > >> >> (in German) >> >> Its in >> >> ,------------------------------------------- >> | "SprachRohr"-Ausgabe 04/2012 FernUni Hagen >> `------------------------------------------- >> >> and the cover can be seen here: >> http://www.fernstudis.de/node/1203 >> >> unfortunately only the cover, since download is restricted to >> immatriculated students, but I reached some 50-60k readers with this >> article and recieved very positive feedback, I cite from an anonymous >> fellow distance student: >> >> ,---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> | [...] ich gehöre normalerweise nicht zu den Leserbriefschreibern, aber hier >> | muss ich einfach mal ein ganz großes Lob loswerden: Vielen Dank für den >> | Artikel über Emacs Org-Mode - der erste Artikel [...] der mich wirklich >> | weiterbringt und ganz sehr zum "Weiterforschen" anregt. Org-Mode scheint >> | genau das Werkzeug zu sein, nach dem ich lange gesucht habe. >> `---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> (in English more or less: "normally I don't write reader comments, but >> Org-mode seems exactly the tool I was looking for and I feel very >> motivated to learn more about it after reading your article") >> >> So maybe there are ways to reach more people with less effort than in >> one-to-one conversion talks? Although, even with 50k readers, I will of >> course never know if I really achieved a single conversion. >> >> -- >> cheers, >> Thorsten >> >> > >
