Hi, Another appetizer! Our magazine is monthly. It is available for browsing online[1]. And we have editions translated into English.[2] And the best: It is developed in a fully collaborative. Currently the only recourse we have is the wiki[3] of TDF and a website[4] that is under development.
[1]http://www.youblisher.com/p/87269-Revista-BrOffice-Edicao-15/ [2] http://wiki.broffice.org/attachment/wiki/revista/ingles/RB9-ED001-EN.pdf?format=raw [3]http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/PT-BR/Revista [4]http://revista.broffice.org/ Believe it! It is possible! Rgds, Luiz Oliveira LibreOffice Community - Brazil 2011/3/9 webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <[email protected] > > On 03/09/2011 01:32 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Back to the issue posted some weeks ago in this mailing list about a >> Magazine for LibreOffice, I have a suggestion from the editorial >> viewpoint. >> >> What we need for this? >> >> - People who coordinate the process (one or more editors) in order to plan >> what is going to publish; >> >> - People who make corrections to all writen/translated matters; >> >> - People who make the design (and here in Brazil that's done in >> LibreOffice >> Draw, despite their limitations because it is not the appropriate tool for >> professional graphic editing). But we can use Scribus, for example. >> >> All other countries who are interested could create a local magazine, >> something like "LibreOffice Magazine Brazil", which would work like it, >> but >> with contents focused on the country in question, and they could use >> the contents >> of the International Journal also. By the way, each working groups >> representative >> for local magazines could also "sell" out local matters to the >> international >> journal, if approved by the editorial team. >> >> We can discuss it deeper in order to detail how the production process >> would >> be, if someone is interested in this proposition. >> >> What do you think? >> >> >> >> Rgs, >> >> Luiz Oliveira >> LibreOffice Community - Brazil >> >> > Having a good quarterly or tri-year released magazine or even an > e-newsletter will make LibreOffice look more professional to the business > community. Better to get the boss of the tech department to agree to see > what all the press is about. > > I would love an English version of something like what is done for the > Brazilian market. All it would take is enough people to volunteer to create > the content and do the layout work. > > If it started as an International magazine with English, Spanish, French, > German [and others] translations. It could be a project worked on my > several language/regional groups for creating the content for maybe a > quarterly magazine. Each content provider would provide the content in > their language, and maybe English or other translation if they have that > ability, to one group of volunteers. Those volunteers should include people > who can do the translation from from their native language and a second or > third one. That way there could be a resource of people to take the > content, and have the original version and one or two translation of the > content available. This would make it a truly international publication. > > The copies would be PDF format and optimized for the smallest file size for > downloading. Maybe an online version for browsing and having it available > for online searching via Google and Bing. Then the free translation > services could do enough of a translation to give a some-what accurate > translation to those languages not used for the articles. > > I have seen international magazines [PDF versions] that had two language > version of the same article side-by-side. Many of those used English as the > default language next to the original article of Spanish, Swedish, French, > etc., language. If the the article was written in English, then sometimes > it would have a second language next to it. > > It would be nice to have such a publication. Brazil has a large active > group supporting their community. We would need such a large group > dedicated the same way and with enough free time to produce even a magazine > every 3 to 4 months. It would be nice, but will it happen soon? I can only > hope, but not expect it to happen just yet. LibreOffice has been out > "officially" for less than two months. Once it has been out for a few > months more, then maybe people will have the time to support such a worthy > marketing project. > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
