<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> 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. </blockquote> 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. </div> -- ginger "all-lower-case" coons <a href="http://adaptstudio.ca">adaptstudio.ca</a> 647.865.7757 (Toronto) 514.213.1318 (Montreal)