On Tuesday 17 August 2010, Louis Desjardins wrote: > 2010/8/17 a.l.e <ale.comp...@xox.ch> > > > hi ricardo > > > > after having read your mail some more thoughts about the way i "see" the > > magazine... it's just my opinion, of course! > > > > - as far as i am concerned, you and ana are very welcome to create > > > > further issues of the lgmag! at the same time, i'd also like to see > > other crews creating "their" lgmag! > > But Ale, that "their" you put here... doesn’t it defeat the idea of > gathering and joining forces around one project? I think Ale wants to have special edition at special occasion. Which is quiet common for professional magazine too ;) And I think it makes sense, to have the LGM Special Issue, the "froscamp" Special Issue, especially if they are fully (or almost, I guess some articles can be prepared before hand). But it would be better if the articles are also written live, so at a booth you could have a few computers with our programs installed, and people playing with them to produce an article, and then they could help with the layouting too. It would give a live demo of the programs.
> 3. Start with a quarterly, keep it like that for a year, increase the > number of pages if necessary, until we reach the point where the project > seems viable enough and has drawn much attention and interest and then > accelerate the rythm of issuing to every 2 months. If we can, increase the > rythm to a monthly publication. Totally agree. > In order to keep production cost as low as possible and at the same > concentrating as much as possible on an interesting content I would suggest > we start with either a black and white publication (remember, in design > black is a color) at least for the interior pages, or that we start with a > color cover (C1-C4) and the interior in black ink. That way we could print > at very low cost and most everybody could handle the printing locally > withoug busting any budget. And we can have a state-of-the-art magazine. I am a bit ambivalent about the b&w vs color. I see your point, and for an amateur magazine, I would also recommend to start with b&w. But here, we are speaking of magazine showing graphics creation, I fear that color is not optional (as much as I like b&w art :) ). -- Cyrille Berger _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
