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

[a.l.e]

hi ginger,

> > 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.

i'd like to produce a second number while being at http://froscomp.org .
(mid september)

the idea is to have the content mostly produced in advanced and having
a small crew doing the magazine live at our booth.

i'm not sure i will have founds to print it, so it may just be a PDF to
put on the web.

what do you think about it?

could you image to have an active role even if not personally present?
(no, i certainly won't have the budget to fly you to zurich! :-)


ciao
a.l.e