Meet the New Editor in Chief of <emphasis>Linux Journal</emphasis>

Hello and thanks for reading!

It's hard to describe how excited I am to be coming on board here as
Editor in Chief of Linux Journal.

Some of you may know me from the time I spent as Editor in Chief of
LinuxWorld Magazine. I was founding editor there and put a lot of
effort into building up that publication. But even while I was there,
I always looked at Linux Journal as the best magazine in the Linux
space. LJ was my model because it had such a great editorial staff
and great writers. LJ had built a reputation over time that I
respected and admired, and it always represented the model I was
striving for. LJ, to me, was always the magazine I thought we could
become if we worked at it long enough. And, other than my own, it was
the only other Linux magazine I read regularly.

Don Marti has been an influential and important part of that
success. His ground-breaking ideas and initiatives on behalf of the
Linux community, to be honest, are a bit legendary. Both the "Burn
All GIFs" project and "Windows Refund Day" are great examples of his
ideas and leadership--Google them if you're not familiar with them
already, they're worth reading up on. Don always has been someone
who isn't afraid to stir things up, and that's a tradition I think
we'll be continuing here at LJ. His shoes will be hard to fill, and
he'll be missed. But, I've been assured that he's not going too
far; he'll be staying on here in whatever fashion suits him and as
someone I know will be a close advisor.

So now I've been given the opportunity--well, maybe it's better to
say, the responsibility--of being Editor in Chief of the magazine I
admire. What will I do? To begin with, I'm going to make sure
nothing changes too fast. From what I've seen, there's a great team in
place here and things are moving pretty smoothly.

Yet, I'm sure that things will change over time. I'll try to bring
some new ideas and new energy into the mix, and I'll work to leverage
my ideas along with the ideas of all the others involved with the
magazine. We'll work as a team, put our heads together and see which
ideas float to the top.

Most importantly, however, I'll make sure that we're listening to you, our
readers. To me, the best measure of our success is how relevant we are
to you and how much you gain from being part of the Linux
Journal community.

In the end, to me the most exciting part of being here at
LJ is to be a part of the LJ
community, because I think that's really what we are--a community. You
can find information on Linux everywhere today, but you read
Linux Journal because you want to be part of
something that's bigger than a mere set of search results. In the
days when some are beginning to ask if Linux has "jumped the shark",
it's our job to make sure that the Linux, Open Source and Free
Software communities have a place they can call their own. I want to
make sure that place is Linux Journal.

Until next time, thanks for reading!

Kevin Bedell will be the new Editor in Chief of
Linux Journal.