Re: [libreoffice-marketing] A Magazine for All us!!

On 03/09/2011 01:32 PM, luizheli@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Back to the issue posted some weeks ago in this mailing list about a
> Magazine for LibreOffice, I have a suggestion from the editorial viewpoint.
>
> What we need for this?
>
> - People who coordinate the process (one or more editors) in order to plan
> what is going to publish;
>
> - People who make corrections to all writen/translated matters;
>
> - People who make the design (and here in Brazil that's done in LibreOffice
> Draw, despite their limitations because it is not the appropriate tool for
> professional graphic editing). But we can use Scribus, for example.
>
> All other countries who are interested could create a local magazine,
> something like "LibreOffice Magazine Brazil", which would work like it, but
> with contents focused on the country in question, and they could use
> the contents
> of the International Journal also. By the way, each working groups
> representative
> for local magazines could also "sell" out local matters to the international
> journal, if approved by the editorial team.
>
> We can discuss it deeper in order to detail how the production process would
> be, if someone is interested in this proposition.
>
> What do you think?
>
>
>
> Rgs,
>
> Luiz Oliveira
> LibreOffice Community - Brazil

Having a good quarterly or tri-year released magazine or even an 
e-newsletter will make LibreOffice look more professional to the 
business community.  Better to get the boss of the tech department to 
agree to see what all the press is about.

I would love an English version of something like what is done for the 
Brazilian market.  All it would take is enough people to volunteer to 
create the content and do the layout work.

If it started as an International magazine with English, Spanish, 
French, German [and others] translations.  It could be a project worked 
on my several language/regional groups for creating the content for 
maybe a quarterly magazine.  Each content provider would provide the 
content in their language, and maybe English or other translation if 
they have that ability, to one group of volunteers.  Those volunteers 
should include people who can do the translation from from their native 
language and a second or third one.  That way there could be a resource 
of people to take the content, and have the original version and one or 
two translation of the content available.  This would make it a truly 
international publication.

The copies would be PDF format and optimized for the smallest file size 
for downloading.  Maybe an online version for browsing and having it 
available for online searching via Google and Bing.  Then the free 
translation services could do enough of a translation to give a 
some-what accurate translation to those languages not used for the 
articles.

I have seen international magazines [PDF versions] that had two language 
version of the same article side-by-side.  Many of those used English as 
the default language next to the original article of Spanish, Swedish, 
French, etc., language.  If the the article was written in English, then 
sometimes it would have a second language next to it.

It would be nice to have such a publication.  Brazil has a large active 
group supporting their community.  We would need such a large group 
dedicated the same way and with enough free time to produce even a 
magazine every 3 to 4 months.  It would be nice, but will it happen 
soon?  I can only hope, but not expect it to happen just yet.  
LibreOffice has been out "officially" for less than two months.  Once it 
has been out for a few months more, then maybe people will have the time 
to support such a worthy marketing project.

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