Lwn.net is without any doubt the greatest free and open source publication in the world, to me at least. Very high standards both technical and ethical.
I highly recommend subscribing!
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Many VPS providers are offering similar terms. DigitalOcean has its Write for DOnations program (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/pages/write-for-digit...) which pays $300 for a new tutorial, for instance. I'd imagine the cost must pay itself off, I've seen many people sign up for DigitalOcean because they wanted to follow one of the tutorials (even though you don't really need DO to follow them).
LWN editor here.
We are always looking for writers who can create quality articles and aren't afraid of writing for readers who know more about the subject matter than they do (or anybody else does, for that matter). We're interested in news from the free-software development community; we don't do how-to articles or "five reasons your company should be using DevOps".
The cited rate is our entry rate; we try to bump things up fairly quickly for authors who do good work for us. As others have noted, we care deeply about the material we publish, so there is definitely some time to be spent in the editing process.
FWIW this is in the normal range for what a good blog post costs any business. My first job paid me $50 per blog post and I churned out a few a week. My second job did $1,000 for three very high quality ones per quarter. (Blogging is no where near my day to day job).
All were just posted on the corporate blog for seo, building the brand as experts, etc. One of my posts was reblogged by some major outlets, so definitely worth the cost for my employer.
HN spoiler alert: "Please note that we are, as a general rule, not looking for "how to" articles..."
I maintain a collection[0] of places with programs like this (I'll add lwn later today).
As others have said, producing a good blog post takes time, so the money isn't as good as it initially seems if you aren't doing it for reputation or fun too.
I also recently launched ritza[1] to scale production of this kind of content as it's definitely a growing demand trend. Happy to chat about technical writing with anyone - details in profile.
[0] https://github.com/sixhobbits/technical-writing/blob/master/...
[1] https://ritza.co
I would love something like the LWN for the Scala world. That would be pretty cool. (High quality curation and journalism)
Shame we don't have Dr Dobbs anymore.
If anyone wants to write detailed, high-quality articles about automotive engineering on a similar basis, drop me an email. Explaining concepts from the basic to the advanced in an easy-to-understand way.
alex@howacarworks.com
It really depends on the topic (probably not for Linux), but Medium seems today the best option if your goal is to earn money.
My last 2 articles in Medium generated $500 and +$800 (and growing) for a total effort of around ~6 writing hours per article, so I think it is a very viable way to make a living writing 100% online.
Let's see if they accept GPT-3 generated articles :-)
I was with a company once that paid $100. The content was actually pretty bad.
Where do you find quality writers? I can’t imagine it’s Fiverr.
Is there anything similar for windows platform? I would love to pay to get in depth technical articles but with keeping Windows as platform in mind.
Great to see that there are still publications that care about having high standards of editorial and that actually pay their writers a reasonable amount. These are very few and far between.
I've written a couple of articles for LWN (I waived the fee)[1][2]. It's quite an involved process going through many rounds of editing. You have to stick to the house style and use the house markup. The results are excellent because of this consistent attention to detail, but I wouldn't recommend it as a way to make a quick buck :-) The whole process for these two articles took two weeks from proposal to publication and involved 30 emails as well as many edits in their CMS.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/749185/
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/749443/