Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Magazine LibreOffice International.

Hi Paulo,

Thanks for the answer:

Le 2011-06-15 07:40, Paulo de Souza Lima a écrit :
> 2011/6/15 Simos Xenitellis<simos.lists@googlemail.com>
>
> <snip>
>
>
> >   I think it's a great idea to have a LibreOffice magazine, created
> > using LibreOffice.
>
> =) We have done that for a long time already. Texts are made in Writer.
> Design is made in Draw. Only a few details, like image editing, are 
> made in
> Gimp.
>
>
> > There are smaller FLOSS communities that manage to use XeLaTex (!)
> > effectively to create shiny magazines, so this should be doable.
> >
> > For marketing purposes, it would be nice to make available the source
> > of the magazine
> > along with the PDF version. The users would be confident that they can
> > create a quality
> > magazine of their own.
>
> All sources (ODF and ODG files) are available in the wiki. You can 
> check out
> for files contained in cathegory "Revista" and "PT-BR". Unfortunately 
> (and I
> personally don't agree with that), there are no references to the 
> sources of
> the older contents.

+100

Re: use of Latex: It would be quite an unfortunate event, if we were to 
produce and publish in Latex rather than using our own LibreOffice suite 
and in our own format ODF which we market as being able to to all of 
this. BrOffice has proven quite well how LibreOffice CAN and IS used to 
produce a high quality magazine. BrOffice IS the example to follow and 
to emulate for all of us.

This is the kind of marketing event that marketing departments drool over.

All of my deepest congratulations to the BrOffice team who have shown 
what LibreOffice is able to do when applied in a high quality publishing 
environment.

> > For the possible localisation of the magazine, it's up to each
> > LibreOffice localisation team
> > to take up the task.
> > Ideally, the translatable text in the magazine document would be
> > marked with a certain paragraph style, and then the text would be
> > extracted in PO files suitable for translation. Then, once the PO
> > files are translated, the reverse process would create back the
> > localised magazine.
>
> That's a great idea! People from local communities could also choose what
> contents they would use in their local magazines. All contents would be
> available in one source. Our concern on that always was: Are there
> volunteers enough to do that?

We have already covered this from the last conversations on this topic 
... but ... if we have matured enough, and, if we can have some people 
commit to the localization and collecting of news articles for their own 
language groups, then great! The frequency of publication would not have 
to be the same for each locale, some could be published on a monthly 
basis, every two months, every 6 months or even annually for some groups.

IMHO, as the BrOffice team have more than proven their ability in 
producing a high quality magazine using our LibreOffice suite and in our 
format ODF, the production process is already there, the production team 
is there, the commitment is there, then, all we need are for the 
different localization teams (those interested in participating in such 
a project) to join the BrOffice team.

I believe that the BrOffice team had earlier shown an interest in 
leading this kind of venture. I don't know if this commitment is still 
there. I hope it is.

The challenge of publishing an international LibreOffice magazine has 
always really been a matter of getting the different NL groups to step 
up and organize their localizing and news gathering teams. If the NL 
groups are able to do this, then yes, we could organize a truly 
international LibreOffice publication.

Cheers,

Marc

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