[CREATE] Fwd: Re: [LGF-LGA] Ok, let's start with a website

[Louis Desjardins]

2010/8/15 jon at rejon.org <jon at rejon.org>

> http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Libre_Graphics_Magazine
>

+ 1

Louis


>
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:26 AM, ginger coons <ginger at adaptstudio.ca>
> wrote:
> >
> >> So we could create a magazine (available as PDF, and printed to people
> who
> >> want a paper edition, actually someone already started such a project, I
> >> think
> >> ?), or a booklet that could be send as "commercial" to companies, a book
> >> (either tutorial, or a "story" book with illustration created with our
> >> software).
> >> All done with free software. Then you can show the results to
> >> professional,
> >> and impress them. When I was a student, I participated in editing a
> >> student
> >> weekly newspaper, we managed to print in four colors using a two
> cylinders
> >> rotary printer, the seller was so surprised by the result that you could
> >> get
> >> with the machine, that he sent a few samples of our journal to the
> >> direction
> >> in Japan. This little story shows that if you do interesting things, you
> >> will
> >> get attention.
> >> There is already an impressive pool of artists using our software, lets
> >> pull
> >> them together to create material that display the power of our tools.
> >
> > A great big +1 on the magazine. Just before LGM, Ricardo, Ana, Femke,
> a.l.e.
> > and I pulled together Libre Graphics Magazine #0. Since then, I've been
> > thinking seriously (as I plan workshops and talks for artists and design
> > students) about the value of doing such a magazine more frequently. I
> think
> > it would be a great vehicle around which to build some user community, as
> > well as a nice, professional public show of what F/LOSS graphics software
> > can do.
> >
> > So I'm game to pick up where we left off on the magazine, and willing to
> add
> > some editorial weight to the effort. If anyone else is interested in
> working
> > on it too, all the better.
> >
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