Sounds great! Please keep us updated! Is The Big Issue South Africa available online?
Maybe my resource page Libre Graphics Production (http://libregraphicsproduction.com/) can be helpful in the transition. Best regards, Staffan On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Dirk Meerkotter <design at bigissue.org.za> wrote: > Hi all > > I've been a long time Scribus user and use it essentially daily to produce > a magazine - The Big Issue South Africa. I had the opportunity a month ago > to talk at the International Network of Street papers conference in Munich > and my talk was a call for all street papers (122 in 41 countries) to > switch to Open Source Software and I of course highlighted the importance > of Scribus and sang its praises. > > The talk was very met with great enthusiasm and I hope that over the coming > months we'll see more magazines make the shift. To make this an easier > transition I am in the process of setting up a website with information and > forums etc. Specifically aimed at the street paper movement, but of course > relevant far beyond that. > > The street paper movement, with 122 magazines in 41 countries, is a perfect > setting for mass embrace of Scribus and related programs and I hope I can > help to encourage that. > > Among the street paper magazines are Big Issue London and many others that > have entered the mainstream in a big way and will carry the message of Open > Source far - IF we can encourage them to use it. > > I am also happy to report that my work with Scribus was nominated for Best > Design award, but it was unfortunately taken by the Norwegian "= Oslo", but > I think that the mere fact that we were nominated shows that Scribus is > perfectly capable of holding its own with the best and hopefully next > year, we can clinch it. > > As part of the website I will showcase the magazine work I do and I > certainly don't claim it's the best design out there, but will hopefully > serve as an example to other Scribus users and other designers of the > options and possibilities. > > Of course, that being said, we all know Scribus has much room for > improvement, but we are on the right track and if we can get the support > from the International Network of Street Papers and have an active Scribus > community in that, we can improve the software to perfection. > > Just wanted to share that > > All the best > > Dirk > > PS. The attached picture is of me talking at the conference. The opening > picture of the slideshow was about the correlation between the recent NSA > scandals and the choices we make in the digital age. > > PPS. The slideshow was ironically shown on a Windows machine, but, rest > assured, my own system is Linux ;-) > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20130829/b45545b5/attachment.html> > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: conference.jpg > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 52722 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: > <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20130829/b45545b5/attachment.jpg> > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net -- Staffan Melin Oscillator - ord bild form Kryssd?cket 1 SE-413 27 G?TEBORG SVERIGE/SWEDEN www.oscillator.se staffan.melin at oscillator.se +46 (0)70-4876 250
