http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Libre_Graphics_Magazine
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:26 AM, ginger coons <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. > > -- > ginger "all-lower-case" coons > adaptstudio.ca > 647.865.7757 (Toronto) > 514.213.1318 (Montreal) > > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create > > -- Jon Phillips http://rejon.org/ http://fabricatorz.com/ http://status.net/ http://rejon.status.net + skype: kidproto +1.415.830.3884 (sf/global) +86.187.1003.9974 (china) _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
