adrian@ora.com (Adrian Nye) (06/11/91)
O'Reilly and Associates (ORA) is accepting proposals for articles and documentation to appear in The X Resource: A Practical Journal of the X Window System. The first issue, to be sold as a single copy, will be published this fall. Subscriptions will begin with the first issue of 1992. We seek articles that help people understand X better and write better X software. The journal will concentrate on covering the programming tools, techniques, and concepts that haven't received coverage in books. The journal will cover commercial products as well as free software, but will demand fairness and completeness and will reject articles that sound like marketing literature. The goal of the journal is to disseminate practical, timely information about programming, administration, and advanced use of the X Window System. Unlike many journals, which serve as organs of record for academic research, this is a working journal. Articles must be well written, but they can be informal, as long as they provide information that is of practical use to the X community. Submissions are not limited to traditional papers in length or content. The X Resource seeks to publish documentation (tutorial and reference material) of virtually any length. This documentation should be about software tools that have not received coverage in books, and whose supplied documentation is poor or nonexistent. Contributions to the journal might fall into one or more of the following categories: o Descriptions of new features in X releases and how to use them. o Reviews and guides to programming with freely available and commercial software development tools and free-software applications. o Descriptions of how to use existing X features efficiently. o Experiences and strategies for application software development or porting. o System administration of X and X terminals. o User configuration and customization of X applications. o Illumination of difficult concepts, or of simple concepts that are hidden behind the details. o Server implementation details that impact application writing. o Interoperability. Potential contributors should submit a brief proposal and outline before writing a complete paper, to avoid duplication of effort. Complete papers that arrive uninvited may be accepted, but the author takes an unnecessary risk. Authors of accepted papers will receive a small honorarium, between $100 and $1,000, depending on the length and quality of the submission. Authors may keep copyright to their material. All papers will be forwarded to various members of the Editorial Advisory Board for comments and to judge whether the paper should be published. Please contact the Interim Editor with your proposal or any questions you may have: Adrian Nye 4466 West Pine Blvd. 20-G St. Louis MO 63108 (314) 531-1231 adrian@ora.com or uunet!ora!adrian