Happy Holi to Everyone!! Yesterday Atul Jha and myself had a meeting at my place for planning the content and structure of the proposed ezine. Placed below are brief record of discussions, so that we get opinions and contributions from all of you before the project takes off.
1. Objective: To provide a central reference point for FOSS related content of high journalistic standards which community can leverage as a resource to achieve the higher objectives of FOSS movement. 2. License: The contents of ezine are intended to be re-used by one and all in their FOSS efforts, whether at individual level or institutional. We too intend to reuse or refer to similarly intended electronic / physical resources. As such, Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike 2.5 license seems to be most appropirate. Legal Pundits may kindly opine, before we get flamed. 3. Format: Content Presentation is proposed to be HTML, Printer-Friendly HTML and PDF. Content submission is proposed to be either offline-ODF or through a Web based mechanism which will generate ODF for the editors. The intention is to be able to make content submission as easy as possible and also have the input resources in a standard format so as to be able to make standard and print-ready PDFs without much effort. Opinion is sought on how to have a system which covers the Word-Processing-to-DTP-OffsetPrinting cycle and is most optimal. Multimedia content is not currently intended for hosting immediately, but should be FOSS compliant whenever we are ready. 4. Content Framework: [Not necessarily in order of importance] a. Guest Editorial: Intention is to seek an editorial quality contribution from outstanding leaders and achievers from among FOSS community members. b. email Interview: To seek opinions and answers to questions prepared by the ezine editorial team from outstanding leaders and achievers from among FOSS community members. c. From our Correspondent: To approve well known writers / contributors as Correspondents to get regular and quality inputs on various FOSS issues and activities. This could cover hands-on articles, reviews, events and opinions. d. Internship Watch: To act as Window of Opportunities for Internship programs being offered at various organisations. e. News Headlines with commentary picked up from various forums. f. Hot Topics: Refernces and summaries of important hot threads in various on-line mailing lists. g. Kids Corner: FOSS stuff for kids in the age-group 5-12. Content in this corner should be reusable by kids themselves as talking points in their circles / school teachers. h. Articles: i. Contributed Articles by ilugd members ii. Reference Articles (Articles themslves - reused - not links) [Most frequently cited type] iii. Links to Blogs and other Articles not permitted for reuse, preferably with summary. i. LUG ONE: Inspiring activities of various LUGs from around the world. j. ITCH for FREE SOFTWARE: (To be appropirately titled) The intention here is to cover areas where there are no good FOSS options. We should be able to not only locate such areas but also locate projects which are currently working in such areas and their progress. k. Corporate Segment: The intention here is to capture FOSS related developments in various business areas. We could also cover applications, strategies, policy issues, opportunities in FOSS related areas. l. Newbies Section: Articles and resources for newbies. m. Multi-Media Section: We could cover online resources such as Tutorial kind Screenshots, Video Tutorials / Resources, Audio Resources. With the present hosting resources it may be difficult to host large multimedia content ourselves, but nevertheless it should be on our agenda. To make a beginning we could start with references. n. Online Education Courses and other Formal / Non-formal Education related artcles. Thats a pretty long wish list. You are requested to add-in your suggestions and opinions. Anand Shankar _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
