Hi, all. A couple of comments and suggestions on the newsletter.
First, the newsletter should be sent out as e-mail in text-only. Many people, including myself, do not like html e-mail (an often thread on many forums). Personally, I do not have an internet connection at home and usually read such newsletters offline. I also use a text e-mail client (mutt rules :) ). Second, I recommend that contributers send there material for the newsletter in plain text format. That way the formatting (for the online version) can be added by the editor(s) in a consistent way. Regards, John P.S. I recently started a new project (still early stages) on thermodynamics at http://www.wikieducator.org/Thermodynamics ________________________________ From: Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:37:15 AM Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: WE e-Newsletter; Technical Discussion Anil -- (and congrats to Leigh & the team @ Otago Poly) You may want to take a look at how Creative Commons distribute their e-Newsletter. They send the text version in the body of the email with a link to a professional Typeset version on their wiki - which incidentally is also powered by Mediawiki with a cutomised skin see: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCNewsletter Kudos also to Leigh and the team at Otago Poly for mention of the CC-BY IP policy at the Polytechnic in the current issue: http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/newsletter/ccnewsletter10.pdf Cheers Wayne On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 09:17 -0800, Anil wrote: Dear Dr. Wayne and all other friends, That is right. I have just created a page for collaborative development of the eNewsletter at http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:NewsLetter/2009-1 Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Educatio... Skype: apletters On Dec 10, 3:36 am, Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Anil -- > > Wow Anil --- You're dedication and the time you donate to WikiEducator > is an inspiration for all of us! > > Following the wiki approach -- I think that it would be appropriate for > us to collaborate on the authorship of the newsletter in the wiki. We > can then decide on alternatives for distribution. > > Given the large number of WikiEducator members from the developing > world, I would be mindful of including this as an html newsletter or > attachment. Perhaps the best will be to provide links to an online > version on the wiki and optional link to download in print format. When > working on dialup -- forced downloads of large messages can be > irritating :-) > > The WikiEd technical team will be able to advise us on alternatives for > the distribution list --- but this can wait until we get the first > edition completed. Given that most of the Southern hemisphere will be > slowing down for the holiday season, I think you're right in waiting > till the new year. > > CHeers > Wayne > > On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 21:33 +0530, aprasad wrote: > > Dear friends, > > > (Please recall earlier discussions on Newsletter) > > > I am not that much sound in the technicalities of e-Newsletter, how > > let me start this discussion with the following note. > > > I understand that we have following options with regards to an > > eNewsletter. > > > * Text only newsletter: Newsletter will be in the text format > > and pasted in the mail. > > * Text and attached HTML version: Text version will be the part > > of the email and HTML version will be an attachment. > > * Online eNewsletter: In this method HTML newsletter will be > > added to the website and the link will be posted to those in > > the mailing list. > > * HTML only eNewsletter : It is seen reported that though most > > email programs allow to send HTML only newsletters, it may > > create reading problems for some. > > > In the event of creating HTML newsletterhttp://www.phplist.com/is an > > open source HTML editor option. > > > Your comments please….. > > > Shall we plan to start it in the New Year? > > > -- > > Warm regards > > > Anil > >http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad > >http://wikieducator.org/India > >http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework > >http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Educatio... > > > Skype: apletters --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
