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From: Moritz Ulrich <moritz@tarn-vedra.de>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: converting people to Emacs and org-mode
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 12:21:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA7qzwh1nLJgaWLQ-Kq0fzceH20=hW3JhUmyfiSR_1dsQD+_Ag@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7401FF63-B5F4-46AF-BD35-9717130FADBB@gmail.com>

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.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9 apr. 2013, at 10:46, Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 42 147 <aeuster@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
>>
>>
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-09 10:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-09  8:10 converting people to Emacs and org-mode 42 147
2013-04-09  8:29 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-04-09  8:47   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-04-13  8:16   ` Karl Voit
2013-04-09  8:46 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-09  8:51   ` Carsten Dominik
2013-04-09 10:21     ` Moritz Ulrich [this message]
2013-04-09 10:30       ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-09 11:05         ` Torsten Wagner
2013-04-22 14:26           ` Eric S Fraga
2013-04-22 15:20             ` Loyall, David
2013-04-22 17:11             ` Bastien
2013-04-22 19:35               ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-22 20:03                 ` John Hendy
2013-04-23  5:19                 ` Achim Gratz
2013-04-23  6:38                   ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-22 21:50               ` Samuel Wales
2013-04-23  7:29               ` Carsten Dominik
2013-04-23  9:01                 ` OT: Emacs screen colors (was: converting people to Emacs and org-mode) Karl Voit
2013-04-23  9:28               ` converting people to Emacs and org-mode Eric S Fraga
2013-04-23  9:37                 ` Jude DaShiell
2013-04-23  9:48                   ` Eric S Fraga
2013-04-09 11:40         ` Bastien
2013-04-09  8:48 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-04-09  9:50   ` Bastien
2013-04-09 10:03     ` Russell Adams
2013-04-09 12:27       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-04-09 15:31         ` Christopher Allan Webber
2013-04-09 16:28           ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-12 22:17             ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-09 18:33         ` Loyall, David
2013-04-09 18:42           ` Chris Gray
2013-04-09 14:42 ` Gunnar Wolf
2013-04-09 21:03   ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-04-09 20:59 ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-04-09 22:26 ` John Hendy
2013-04-10 12:03   ` Doug Lewan
2013-04-13  8:43 ` Karl Voit
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-04-09 23:59 42 147
2013-04-10  7:37 ` Bastien
2013-04-10 10:01 ` Suvayu Ali

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