I've read the above thread and lots of people have a lot of input... Which is great... I could help with some parts of the project. Specially doing simple tasks such as copy pasting from Scribus to HTML editor and making sure that everything is able to navigate back and forth...I have minimal HTML skills but these days the HTML editors are great... I'm a marketing grad so I pretty much know nothing about coding... But I would like to learn and be involved... I was involved in a project within the last six months which is now AIESEC Monash <http://www.aiesecmonash.org/> Not sure how much time I can commit as I'm in the midst of job hunting... But I am happy to help. If I am about to leave the project I will definitely train someone while transitioning...Let me know what you'll think.
Perhaps Greg and Martin can show us what they are talking about as an example somewhere. That way there is a team of editors and there is another team that provides ideas on innovative ways to speed processes by using technology. As for the Google Docs issue.. I actually use Google Docs quite a lot to collaborate with members from AIESEC Monash... You can invite people to make changes to the document as collaborators, viewers and practically anyone if they have access to a special link that the document generates via the share button, click on "Get the link to share". Regards, Jason -- [email protected] sites.google.com/site/jasonsadsouza/ Facebook: facebook.com/saviojason Twitter: twitter.com/saviojason MSN: [email protected] 2009/8/4 Greg Rundlett (freephile) <[email protected]> > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Ronnie Tucker<[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Sounds like your going to have to if you want it to take up less time. > > > > For instance, I'm dead set against the wiki being used as a database > > like this. It's not meant for collaborative writing and is the wrong > > tool for the job. Even a google doc spreadsheet would be more structured > > as you could export it. > > > > > > I'm not sure about now, but when I last looked in to Google Docs (prior > to > > using a wiki) it had some limitations, file size if I remember rightly, > > which meant we couldn't open a new document with the necessary images in > the > > document. Also using Google Docs would mean inviting proof-readers to > each > > document which is a bit of a pain, unless this has changed... > > > > Get together some scripts to generate svg xml based on your data, then > > you a hop away from just re-editing it in place instead of copying and > > pasting. > > > > Your also on track to be able to feed it into html. > > > > > > I have no idea about that stuff and, since we're volunteer based, if > people > > don't volunteer, I can't magic them (but I wish I could!) :/ > > > > Ultimately what you want is a way for all your writers and collaborators > > to contribute and for there to be a very minimal set of editing tasks > > that join everything together. > > > > > > Absolutely, but there doesn't seem to be a good set of tools available at > > the moment. Most CMS apps are either missing something or just do what we > do > > now (ie: wiki). > > I believe this can be done creating the HTML version first, and use > that to create PDF. The MediaWiki system can be extended to use the > "Collections" system which can generate PDF output. If you skinned > the wiki to create the look of your magazine, and used article > subpages to create the multiple pages of each edition, you could then > publish to PDF while the article was maintained in wiki text markup. > See http://freephile.org/wiki/index.php?title=Collections as a > backgrounder. Several books have been authored and published this way. > > The beauty of using the wiki as your "pre-press" environment is that > it has all the goodness of diff and collaboration plus it can serve > the content to the HTML world. > > I hope that helps. > > Best regards, > > Greg > > > -- > Greg Rundlett > > nbpt 978-225-8302 > m. 978-764-4424 > -skype/aim/irc/twitter freephile > http://profiles.aim.com/freephile > --
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