On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Maciej Hanski <ma_han2000 at yahoo.de> wrote: > Am 21.12.2010 18:51, schrieb Steve Herrick: >> I've been using Scribus in a somewhat unusual way: I make newsletters >> that are printed as posters. We have a network of worker co-ops in my >> town, and people don't have to do a lot of reading. So I put out the >> news this way, so they can read the poster on the wall when they're on >> break. The posters are 13x19 inches. > > Hi Steve, it sounds interesting, could you add a few more details, > perhaps on your workflow, or on the co-ops and the town you've > mentioned? Do you have a link at hand?
Sure. I live in Madison, Wisconsin, which has a relatively high concentration of worker co-ops. Our network (or business association) is called Madison Worker Cooperatives, which is usually shortened to MadWorC. The website is madworc.org. The workflow is pretty simple: people in the organization write the articles, and I lay them out in Scribus (with a little help from OpenOffice.org, Inkscape, and the GIMP). We've settled into a pattern of one co-op feature per edition, with one or two other articles as well. The newsposters are published every other month, by one of the local worker co-ops. They are available at http://madworc.org/newsposter. -- Steve Herrick Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. - George Carlin
