To all,
After 18 years of serving as editor and publisher of a quarterly astronomy
journal as a hobby ("pro bono"), I've decided to pass it on to others within
the parent organization to produce. The organization consists of just under 400
professional and serious other astronomers worldwide who are involved with
Earth-based solar system observations. Astronomy has been my biggest outside
interest since I was a youngster in the early 1960s. But now I wish to enjoy
the hobby more by getting out with my own scopes and other paraphernalia to
enjoy the night skies with others. Plus, I'm pushing age 70 in a few months.
In my position, I received and proofread the science papers after they were
already peer-reviewed for correctness by subject matter experts, then used
FrameMaker to perform the usual electronic layout and produce the journal
itself as two different pdf files (one for placement on the organization's ftp
site for downloading by the membership and another -- much larger -- pdf file
for transmittal to an outside firm that prints and distributes the hard copy
version).
While I have secured another member of the organization to serve as editor,
there is no one within the organization to do the production (that is,
FrameMaker) side of things. Thus, I'm asking here if any of you would consider
this position.
First, knowledge about astronomy is NOT required. Second, we are prepared to
pay a reasonable fee.
As stated above, the journal is released quarterly, with the first issue under
the new personnel not due until December of this year.
Please contact me directly off-list so as not to clutter up things here. I will
be glad to go into whatever excruciating detail interested persons want at that
time and will be glad to direct them to the online location where the entire
library of these journals can be found for their reference.
In case my email address doesn't show up correctly in the header of this email,
I'm at [email protected]
-- Ken in Atlanta
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