I invite you (plural) to think first the printed "GNOME Journal - GUADEC Special Edition" of your dreams. How many pages, size, quality paper, cover, color/B&W... Then the GUADEC Committee will measure the budget for this dream and we will tell if this is feasible or not. About contributors, GUADEC 2006 has got 100 presentations submitted in a couple of weeks, and something tells me we could get some help from here to produce quality content in a couple of months. You also have the contributors from Stuttgart until Vilanova, I'm sure that if you pick the very best and ask the authors to updated/adapt them for a printed edition to be delivered in GUADEC 2006 they will accept. About human resources for producing the Journal (design, copy, etc) I think it is possible to get more help if we announce the project. It can be a good opportunity to get new contributors with a non-usual-suspects profile, as it has happened with the GUADEC website. Like Dave says, we can have a budget for these tasks if needed, too. Don't get me wrong if, in marketing terms, I say we are getting a decent income from corporate sponsorship and we are getting also a decent awareness of potential GUADEC participants; we need to satisfy both and we need to satisfy/enforce as well the GNOME marketing strategy. A cool and professional-looking printed GNOME Journal delivered to all GUADEC participants is an asset that helps achieving all these goals. We produce so many things, but most of them are digital, online... untouchable. And then we all meet in Vilanova, and we give away a tanbgible jewel: a printed GNOME Journal with useful GUADEC info, great GNOME articles (why not the very best reedited as well), a good selection of pictures with real people, nice colorful graphics (tangos + art.gnome.org stuff), marketing materials shown off (all these loving posters and banners we have) and sponsors ads (other conferences and projects would die to have). I'll tell you one thing. Considering that the presentations submitted by the potential speakers are already mostly published online (and this is different from previous editions), maybe we don't need to repeat all this in a printed program. What is useful is to have a schedule you can have in your pocket and check all the time (the inner sheet of the GNOME Journal, easy to detach). The rest can be a pure GNOME Journal interesting for GUADEC but in fact interesting for GNOME 2006. If we achieve this I'd be happy finding the resources for printing 2.000 and letting people take them to spread them in their own groups etc. We know that by doing this our sponsors and our local groups would be happier. And the GNOME Journal team, and the contributors, and the MarketingTeam, etc. So: why to stop this way of happiness? ;) Claus, I understand your concerns but think big: a printed GNOME Journal - GUADEC Special Edition may get much more contributors than the average online journal. And this project may push the journal itself to a next level after GUADEC. On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 21:40 +0200, Claus Schwarm wrote:
Is there any background info? Is there a max. number of pages, for example? How many copies we are talking about? 500? 1.000? 5.000? What about color? 4c completely or just the outside pages? DIN A4 or DIN A5? Please don't get me wrong: I do like the idea.
-- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://guadec.org
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