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I would like to see more people writing about their passions and thoughts in a
permanent and public medium. You should make a blog!

**This is an open offer to pay anyone $20 for starting a tech blog and writing
their first article.** If you write another 3 articles within 6 months, I'll
give you another $20. You can also choose to have me donate your reward to one
of the following charitable organizations:

- [Electronic Frontier Foundation](https://www.eff.org/)
- [Free Software Foundation](https://www.fsf.org/)
- [Software Freedom Conservancy](https://sfconservancy.org/)

[Send me an email](mailto:sir@cmpwn.com) to claim your reward, with a link to
your blog and PayPal information (or the charitable organization of your
choice).

**Notice**: the budget for this initiative has been expended, and no new rewards
are being issued.

**Details**

- This offer is only available to people who do not already have a blog.
- You must publish on an open-source platform. Medium is not allowed. If you
  want a hosted platform, I recommend [write.as](https://write.as). If you're
  technical, you could build your own blog with [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/)
  or [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/). GitHub offers [free
  hosting](https://pages.github.com/) for Jekyll-based blogs.
- There's no minimum word count, but put the effort in. Use exactly as many
  words are as necessary to make a substantive point, no fewer and no more.
- If you want someone to do an editorial review on your articles, feel free to
  email me the drafts for feedback. This offer is extended after your initial 4
  posts and for anyone who already has a blog as well.

Join the [Free Writers Club](https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/free-writers-club)
mailing list for updates, reminders to keep writing, and a forum for supporting
each other's work.

## Read these blogs

Here's a list of blogs which have taken me up on this offer:

- [Ohryan on fediverse.blog](https://fediverse.blog/~/Ohyran)
- [Cole on fediverse.blog](https://fediverse.blog/~/Cole)
- [L. McNulty's blog](https://lmcnulty.gitlab.io/blog/index.html)
- [papatutuwawa@home:~$](https://blog.polynom.me/)
- [Thomas Dagenais' Blog \| i64.dev](https://i64.dev/)
- [WritingGale's Blog](https://lorem.club/~/WritingGalesBlog)
- [Alexander Pluhar](https://www.alexander-pluhar.de/)
- [Naz's Notes](https://notes.askaoru.com/)
- [brett.icu](https://brett.icu/)
- [Notopygos](https://tilde.town/~notopygos/index.html)
- [gokigen](https://write.as/gokigen/)
- [Zack Lofgren](https://zlofgren.com/index.html)
- [Hallau World](https://hallau.world)
- [Joel's Blog](https://noisegul.org/)
- [Tech Monk](https://techmonk.blog/)
- [Limero](https://limero.se/)
- [Stefan Schick's personal Blog](https://stefanschick.eu/)
- [Axel Svensson](https://axelsvensson.com)
- [Jebikoh](https://jebikoh.com/)