a low-res or text-only printable version might be good. i don’t actually think shipping a magazine internationally would be that expensive though!
I am most certainly of the opinion that a print version is important. There are so many things that would never be preserved or we wouldn’t have had at-the-time insight for, were it not for the print media we had.
And while we could have a lot of educational/informative articles, personal accounts and experiences have so much more value than some might realize. Being able to look back and see how people made things, the thought process behind them, the successes and failures, are all important things to document that gets overlooked and it always makes me sad.
I think quarterly is a good place to start, monthly can be a difficult target for a new, volunteer team, and it gives more time to make changes in between issues. I’d be interested in providing illustrative things from time to time.
And I don’t know if someone has suggested this yet but having net and code flavored ‘brain teasers’ could be very cute and fun. Can teach people code passively as well as be a fun refresher for those more seasoned coders.
I’ll be happy to contribute to the magazine with writings, graphic design or coding.
In my experience, untracked parcels often get lost in the mail, and tracked ones tend to get expensive, with custom duties almost doubling the final price. Maybe for a very cheap print it could work anyways! And probably it works differently for different countries.
I love print magazines, especially on matte paper. I miss them.
I’d be happy to help with layout designs (tho my only credentials is my ongoing study in design comms ) and I’ve dabbled in interactive stuff (links to an old interactive artwork, my website has other examples), but ultimately the strongest skills I can offer is illustration work and free time. Either way, I’d love to contribute to this!
popping in to say that i’m committed to recreating this page (xandra’s idea) for the magazine, because i already dress dangerously close to this IRL and “R. U. a Webmaster?” is hilarious to me. i found a shirt that i think would be perfect to wear for the photo, too trying to brainstorm what props i’d need to include in the outfit
do you have some kind of chat? i asked questions but still no answer. are you already working on the magazine?
i’m currently working on submission guidelines. i have already started building a framework, establishing a not-for-profit, developing style guides, which take precedent over article topics at the moment. but this is going to take time. launch is may 2025.
i’m not ignoring you, i’m just trying to balance my time as best i can right now. i’ll have answers for you later! :) i’m so grateful for everyone who’s kindly volunteering their time. it just hasn’t gotten to that stage yet. i hope that makes sense!
it does, and what a deal! I had an unsuccessful experience with the creation (a long time ago) of a public organization, it was necessary to make a statute, we assembled a board of several people, we also needed a founder who would write us a letter of recommendation, we fiddled with this for several months. I understand you very well, few people will appreciate the work that remained behind the scenes. I really hope that all this will pay off, the time spent. That’s why I want you to keep us informed, if something can be accelerated - that would be just super.
the submission guidelines have now been posted on the website! click the button in the top right.
I haven’t written much long form content before, but I’ll try to write an article. Is there a deadline for the May submission? Also, does LibreOffice support .docx?
as long as i can open it with word, shouldn’t be an issue!
a deadline would be helpful, huh? can’t believe i spaced on that.
march 15th would be the deadline.
LibreOffice can read and write .docx
files. I used it when working with a small press back in 2013; all their editors knew was MS Word.
Great, I’ll write the article in LO then!
I’ll probably write mine in Emacs, but I can pandoc Markdown to .docx easily.
Oh, it might be nice to write something on accessibility, now that I look over the list of potential topics. Hm~
Which creative commons license will the pieces be under? Might just be me, but I didn’t really understand that bit.
apologies that wasn’t clear! i’ll update. it’ll be under the CC BY license.
i use .RTF because of backward compability, so all can open it
you know what i think, why will it be so cool? because there will be no constant repetitions (as many bloggers do), there is no reason to get annoyed because of hashtags, or interlinking, which is also annoying (is it really so hard to just write about it in one article, I need to click on all the links because someone is a lazy ass), there is no reason for advertising, or hidden advertising (I noticed the other day that… and similar phrases, after which there is immediately either about some new phone, or something else). to be honest, i would like everyone to make websites as if it were a printed magazine