2010/8/15 <a href="mailto:jon@rejon.org">jon@rejon.org</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jon@rejon.org">jon@rejon.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Libre_Graphics_Magazine" target="_blank">http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Libre_Graphics_Magazine</a><br></blockquote><div><br>+ 1<br><br>Louis<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:26 AM, ginger coons <<a href="mailto:ginger@adaptstudio.ca">ginger@adaptstudio.ca</a>> wrote:<br> ><br> >> So we could create a magazine (available as PDF, and printed to people who<br> >> want a paper edition, actually someone already started such a project, I<br> >> think<br> >> ?), or a booklet that could be send as "commercial" to companies, a book<br> >> (either tutorial, or a "story" book with illustration created with our<br> >> software).<br> >> All done with free software. Then you can show the results to<br> >> professional,<br> >> and impress them. When I was a student, I participated in editing a<br> >> student<br> >> weekly newspaper, we managed to print in four colors using a two cylinders<br> >> rotary printer, the seller was so surprised by the result that you could<br> >> get<br> >> with the machine, that he sent a few samples of our journal to the<br> >> direction<br> >> in Japan. This little story shows that if you do interesting things, you<br> >> will<br> >> get attention.<br> >> There is already an impressive pool of artists using our software, lets<br> >> pull<br> >> them together to create material that display the power of our tools.<br> ><br> > A great big +1 on the magazine. Just before LGM, Ricardo, Ana, Femke, a.l.e.<br> > and I pulled together Libre Graphics Magazine #0. Since then, I've been<br> > thinking seriously (as I plan workshops and talks for artists and design<br> > students) about the value of doing such a magazine more frequently. I think<br> > it would be a great vehicle around which to build some user community, as<br> > well as a nice, professional public show of what F/LOSS graphics software<br> > can do.<br> ><br> > So I'm game to pick up where we left off on the magazine, and willing to add<br> > some editorial weight to the effort. If anyone else is interested in working<br> > on it too, all the better.<br> ><br> > --<br> > ginger "all-lower-case" coons<br> > <a href="http://adaptstudio.ca" target="_blank">adaptstudio.ca</a><br> > 647.865.7757 (Toronto)<br> > 514.213.1318 (Montreal)<br> ><br> </div></div><div class="im">> _______________________________________________<br> > CREATE mailing list<br> > <a href="mailto:CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org">CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br> > <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create</a><br> ><br> ><br> <br> <br> <br> </div><div class="im">--<br> Jon Phillips<br> <a href="http://rejon.org/" target="_blank">http://rejon.org/</a><br> <a href="http://fabricatorz.com/" target="_blank">http://fabricatorz.com/</a><br> <a href="http://status.net/" target="_blank">http://status.net/</a><br> <a href="http://rejon.status.net" target="_blank">http://rejon.status.net</a> + skype: kidproto<br> +1.415.830.3884 (sf/global)<br> +86.187.1003.9974 (china)<br> _______________________________________________<br> </div><div><div></div><div class="h5">CREATE mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org">CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>