Re: converting people to Emacs and org-mode

[Moritz Ulrich <moritz@tarn-vedra.de>]

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:
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> On 9 apr. 2013, at 10:46, Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 42 147 <aeuster@gmail.com> writes:
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>>> 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:
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>> ,-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> | 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
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>> ,------------------------------------------------------
>> | Self-organization with Org-mode for distance students
>> `------------------------------------------------------
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>
> 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
>>
>>
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