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

[ricardo lafuente]

On 08/16/2010 10:57 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> I had the magazine idea a year ago: as a concept, few layout ideas and
> content plan for a couple of issues. But never had a team to support
> it and didn't see a way to make it financially rewarding.
> Ginger and Ricardo picked the idea

and Ana Carvalho

> and then Libre Graphics Magazine #0 was done
> for LGM this year. In three days.

Production was two days, actually :o)

> Amazing job they did, by the way. I
> wonder if they intend to work further on it.

This is a good cue. Ginger's reply said everything i would have -- 
having a real object that we can show people how FLOSS tools can get the 
job done nicely is 1000x more effective in promoting FLOSS tools than 
dry evangelising about software packages and their pros and cons.

Me and Ana would definitely be happy to go further with LGMag. Let me 
emphasise that the #0 issue was produced on a 2-day sprint -- definitely 
shedding my own preconceptions that publishing a magazine would be a 
more sluggish and convoluted process*. And having that issue to show 
skeptical designers how FLOSS can get stuff done is a godsend.

So yes, the team from LGM Magazine #0 is up for going on with the 
project. We can go on discussing this on another thread.

One remark though -- i'm not fond of the idea of a PDF-only magazine. 
Sure, we'd need to get funding and/or sponsorship to support the 
printing costs, but a printed publication is many things that a PDF file 
is not. (also, if it would be online-only, better to have a website 
containing the desired content than a clunky PDF, IMHO.)

:r

* And of course, Ginger's awesome copyediting-fu is much to blame for 
this having turned out right.