Ok, we've determined that we would most certainly like to see this happen. Now, we have a lot of really important questions to start asking ourselves.
- What is the scope of the Magazine? (Do we want to cover news, or should that be left to the UWN and Fridge? Also what other content should we be producing/using?) - Who is our target audience? - How many people will this require? - How will this be distributed - How often will this be released? - How much content should we include per issue? I'm sure there are more important questions but those are the ones that stick out to me. here are my opinions: For scope: I believe that our scope should be wide, but we should deliberately avoid rehashing news from the UWN, unless it is a big big deal. By "big deal" I mean Novell-Microsoft, GPL v3, you get the idea. Other things I think we should include are interesting HOW-TO's that show people how to use often ignored software in the repos better their experience with Ubuntu. We should include editorials, thought provoking articles, etc. We want the content to be interesting to the target audience (see below). I believe we should also include a "Behind Ubuntu Linux" section. Target Audience: I believe for our target audience we should be going after the new Ubuntu user. These people are in general new to free-software, and Linux, and are typically very enthusiastic about it. We should be targeting the less technically able users of Ubuntu as they are the current widest audience (and still a growing demographic in the Ubuntu community). That's just my opinion on the matter. Required members: The more the merrier but I know we will definitely need someone well versed in English (are we going to be translating this?) to edit and proof-read the articles. We will need someone to do the artwork to create a basic page layout for each article etc. (So we'll need some good publishing software too, I imagine). We'll need actual writers who are at least competant in English enough to get their point across, we'll want skilled writers for any editorials who can write their opinions in a convincing manner. For content we need however many people we can get to go out there and do interviews, get how-tos from the community, etc. I think we could do this with 10 dedicated members but if this is going to suffer the lack of interest that the last attempts saw then we'll need a lot more bodies involved. distribution: I feel that .pdf is the appropriate way to distribute at the moment. It's the gold standard for E-mags. Release: Monthly is good as far as I'm concerned. Content quantity: I think we should avoid overwhelming ourselves so the early magizine issues should be relatively short. This will let us build up a stock of content to use in future issues so we can keep things going without pressuring ourselves too greately. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is worth noting that there are already specs started for this from previous attempts and we should leverage that: Magazine related pages on the Ubuntu Wiki<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=magazine&titlesearch=Titles> ____________________________________________ I hope we can get this off the ground, let's succeed where past attempts have failed. Adam.
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