Fwd: Free lance writing

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From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: Free lance writing
To: "Sorrels, David G" <david.g.sorrels@boeing.com>

David-

Thanks for writing. It sounds like you could indeed be of assistance to Project PM in the context of our science journalism program and perhaps other efforts as well. At some point in the near future we'll introduce you to one of our freelancer participants and the two of you can decide what subject matter would work as an article, and then you'll help the writer find good sources for quotes and ensure that the finished product is accurate and otherwise helpful to layman readers. We can provide editing and assistance in finding the best outlet for the resulting articles.

I'll have my associate Clark Robinson send you some additional information about Project PM and our fundamental goals, which involve the development and promotion of improved methods of collaboration and information flow. We have a number of documents you might find interesting, and our more active participants tend to congregate in our new IRC channel which itself may be accessed at irc.freenode.net, #projectpm (I recommend Xchat if you're new to IRC, but Clark will send along a short guide including other methods of getting on).

Let me know if you have any questions, and thanks again for participating in this program.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Sorrels, David G <david.g.sorrels@boeing.com> wrote:

Hello,
I am a keen consumer of scientific information and appreciate well written articles in newspapers and magazines. I have never considered becoming involved in journalism, but I think that our society is seriously deficient in good, objective reporting on the important issues of the day. I do quite a bit of writing for work, and have always been interested in writing as a profession. If there is a way that I might be able to get involved in this project as a novice, maybe I have some untapped talent.

Thanks,
David Sorrels, CSP
Safety Specialist
Boeing Commercial Airplane Group
P.O. Box 20487 MC 5P-91
Portland, OR 97294-0487
(971) 563-0481

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Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302