I hereby call for submissions to the first ever issue of the Skullspace
Quarterly.
email: [email protected]
@skspquarterly on twitter and identi.ca
It will be a paper and pdf publication reflecting the interests of
Skullspace members, with 100% content from Skullspace members and friends.
I've secured a competent volunteer editor. (not me!)
(see my follow-up post on the discuss list for some of the good things
that an editor provides)
Different kinds of printable material are welcome, such as original
cartoons, technical drawings, grey-scale photos, code, tweets, and of
course (the holy grail!) written articles in plain english of various
length.
Content that Skullspace members and friends have also published
elsewhere is fine -- as long as we have your permission and you haven't
tied it up with an exclusive arrangement elsewhere, we'll consider
re-publishing it in the quarterly.
There will even be a section of tweets in each issue to create a low
barrier to participation. Tweeting us URLs to non-Skullspace content is
fine as long has you have something to say about that content in your
own words -- if we like it we'll print your tweet -- not the content it
points at.
(f you tweet a URL to your own content, we might even be smart enough to
figure it out and consider this a suggestion to print the actual content
and not the tweet. If you tweet another Skullspace member's stuff, we'll
consider contacting them for re-publish permission.
Come on everybody! You already generate a significant amount of
interesting content in public blogs, chat rooms, mailing lists, bug
trackers, forums, public source code repositories, and other social
media. Help us identify the best of it each quarter to put in print as a
collection of Skullspace wonderfulness.
Naturally, we welcome original content for first publication in the
quarterly as well.
Fuzzy deadline for our first issue is February 15th. We might close
submissions for this first issue sooner if a lot comes in fast. We'd
then hold over any extra stuff for the next issue.
Hard submission deadlines for subsequent issues will be the calendar
quarter boundaries, March 31, 2013, June 30, 2013, September 30, 2013, etc.
Actual date of publication after each submission deadline will be "when
its ready" (Debian style)
Happy Hacking,
Mark Jenkins
Assistant loudmouth to the editor
(I didn't ask her to edit this post for me -- probably should have)
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