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

[jon at rejon.org]

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

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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