Am 28.08.10, 00:53 -0400 schrieb Yuval Levy:
They also explicitly ignore (c+f+h) = not (yet) users of LG. That's good too.
There are enough magazines catering to (c+f+h). So far those magazines ignore
LG. It's the same with general computing magazines: mention of Linux is
nearly non-existent. So PC mag == Windows mag, and Linux / BSD / Apple users
go to specialized magazines and ignore PC mag. Do we want this new LG website
to be ignored by mainstream users? to be considered a FLOSS only website? OK,
choose your target audience.
Thats not correct at least here in Germany. If a general computer magazine
wants to serve a broad range of readers it has to consider open sourse
anyway. The internet is largely dominated by open source software stacks
including graphics.
The same magazine writes about graphics regulary with respect to
propriarity tools. Most obvious panorama software lists hugin prominently
and typical some smaller articles for other open source projects. I guess
that is what sells best currently.
What is really non obvious to the general public, is the core of
many graphics workflows is open source. I guess lcms is dominating the CMM
market, dont know exactly about Ghostscript in the embedded market.
Certainly dominating or going to do so is the OpenEXR implementation for
movie exchange and I guess the same holds true for JPEG, PNG, TIFF and
OpenCV shares.
What I want to point out is, if your new magazine will broaden the
audience by serving decission makers in the graphics industry as well,
chances are good that open source belongs to the dayly workflow already.
That can be a very strong base for a open source graphics magazine. I
guess having in each issue of the magazine a article about Gutenprint,
GraphicsMagic, littleCMS, OpenEXR and so on will add a shiny side to the
magazine.
An other very interessting thing to a insider audience is to read about
open standards and their open source counterparts. Think of SVG and so on.
Currently would be interessting to read about the newly Google aquired
movie codec and its open sourced implementation. How does it compare in
graphics quality and speed? Ok, thats maybe for the news section.
I do not suggest to focus solely on that but as a add it might be worth.
... just some little thoughts.
kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
--
developing for colour management
www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org
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