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On 2013-01-21, at 1:14, "Mark Jenkins" <[email protected]> wrote: > I hereby call for submissions to the first ever issue of the Skullspace > Quarterly. > > email: [email protected] > @skspquarterly on twitter and identi.ca > > It will be a paper and pdf publication reflecting the interests of Skullspace > members, with 100% content from Skullspace members and friends. > > I've secured a competent volunteer editor. (not me!) > (see my follow-up post on the discuss list for some of the good things that > an editor provides) > > Different kinds of printable material are welcome, such as original cartoons, > technical drawings, grey-scale photos, code, tweets, and of course (the holy > grail!) written articles in plain english of various length. > > Content that Skullspace members and friends have also published elsewhere is > fine -- as long as we have your permission and you haven't tied it up with an > exclusive arrangement elsewhere, we'll consider re-publishing it in the > quarterly. > > There will even be a section of tweets in each issue to create a low barrier > to participation. Tweeting us URLs to non-Skullspace content is fine as long > has you have something to say about that content in your own words -- if we > like it we'll print your tweet -- not the content it points at. > > (f you tweet a URL to your own content, we might even be smart enough to > figure it out and consider this a suggestion to print the actual content and > not the tweet. If you tweet another Skullspace member's stuff, we'll consider > contacting them for re-publish permission. > > Come on everybody! You already generate a significant amount of interesting > content in public blogs, chat rooms, mailing lists, bug trackers, forums, > public source code repositories, and other social media. Help us identify the > best of it each quarter to put in print as a collection of Skullspace > wonderfulness. > > Naturally, we welcome original content for first publication in the quarterly > as well. > > Fuzzy deadline for our first issue is February 15th. We might close > submissions for this first issue sooner if a lot comes in fast. We'd then > hold over any extra stuff for the next issue. > > Hard submission deadlines for subsequent issues will be the calendar quarter > boundaries, March 31, 2013, June 30, 2013, September 30, 2013, etc. > > Actual date of publication after each submission deadline will be "when its > ready" (Debian style) > > > Happy Hacking, > > Mark Jenkins > Assistant loudmouth to the editor > (I didn't ask her to edit this post for me -- probably should have) > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Announce Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Announce > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-announce-archive/ > _______________________________________________ SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/
