Week 49: How to Write Your Own LDN Article

You may have noticed the addition of a new articles on LDN today: the excellent "Anatomy of the Linux Kernel" from M. Tim Jones.

Conneseurs of the Linux trade press might be thinking to themselves, "hey, this article looks very familiar." And they would be correct: this is a piece that originally appeared on IBM developerWorks back in June, part of the "Anatomy" series Tim has written for that site.

After some cordial talks with developerWork's Tom Young, they have allowed LDN to reprint key articles from that series, as part of our effort to fill LDN with content. Think of it as planting a seed. There'll be more of Tim's "Anatomy" series on LDN in the days ahead, as well as some original articles from Tim and several other well-known Linux writers. You can build the coolest web site ever, but if there's nothing to read, who will keep coming back?

You don't have to be well-known to write an article on LDN, but if you do, you soon could be. If you want to contribute content to LDN, just click the Article link in the Create General Content section of your account's navigation window. There aren't too many restrictions:

• Use English, please. Yes, we're read all over the world, but we haven't kicked off a localization program yet!
• As developer-oriented as possible. It may be the most important thing in the world to you, but is refuting the latest FUD from Microsoft really pertinent? Use your article to teach something about Linux development, even if it's opinion.
• Give it some heft. We're not asking for a lot of words. Maybe 500 or more. But if you want to submit a 100-word story, that should be a comment in our Forums, not a full-blown article.

Other than that, it's pretty much whatever you want. Got a cool trick in Gtk that you want to share? A review of a development tool? An opinion on why language X is better than language Y? Put your thoughts down on pixels and submit them to LDN.

When you do, your story will be reviewed by the editorial staff to catch typos or other errors, then posted onto LDN live.

If you post a lot of articles, you could be asked to join the blog rolls so you can have your own regular place of expression on the Linux Developer Network!

In the meantime, we'll be adding more content, including manuals for the latest development tools, developer's references, and--in time--end-user documentation. We've got some big plans ahead, and the entire landscape of Linux knowledgement management is about to change in a big way!