Hello! This is an awesome idea I'd love to help with design or content or anything else. I am now at the open hardware summit in NYC and am having lots of ideas for LGM. When can we meet in Montreal soon?
Take care :) Celine On Saturday, September 18, 2010, Louis Desjardins <louis.desjard...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good morning everyone ! > > While I am looking for sponsors to print the Libre Graphics Magazine I had > this idea of having a large circulation Linux magazine (and maybe more than > one) to print our magazine as part of their regular publication, or print > parts of it, maybe 8 or 16 pages. The idea here is to have that entirely > sponsored by this (these) magazine(s). > > This would ensure a large circulation and a wide distribution of our ideas > both written and graphically expressed. It would also be a clear statement, > even for the publishers of those magazines, that we can do it using F/LOSS > all the way and it would be a great way to blow the bells and whistles about > Libre Graphics while putting the most of our energies on the content and the > containers but not to worry too much on how we’ll reach the people with our > magazine, at least the first issue and maybe a couple more... In turn, this > could certainly be raised as a promotional mean for those who would accept to > publish the Libre Magazine (hey ! do you see the name ? LIBRE!... anyway....) > because we would distribute it at LGM and in other events. > > This of course needs discussion and more thoughts. But in any event I thought > that at least putting the idea on the table was a start ! > > One other idea is to publish it ourselves and print it with our own revenues. > In this case I would strongly suggest that our LGM sponsors be offered to buy > space in the magazine. I think I mentioned that already. > > Cheers! > > Louis > -- Celinecelines http://flavors.me/celinecelines _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
