Re: A printed GNOME Journal for GUADEC?

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

I think we should probably re-arrange the question a bit.

Can the Gnome Journal team plus others create a GUADEC brochure with
interesting content that we can give out to conference attendees?

We probably shouldn't use the GNOME Journal format but instead a
design better suited for GUADEC.

This way people won't approach the problem from a magazine
perspective but more of interesting material to give out at GUADEC.
That might help approach a little better.

Just my two cents.

sri

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:39:32AM +0200, Claus Schwarm wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 21:42:19 +0200
> David Neary <dneary free fr> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > It's GUADEC, so 500 copies would probably do. The GUADEC program, in A5 
> > format, is usually about 32 pages, bump that up to A3, and we're down to 
> > 8 or 12 pages for the conference schedule + sponsors, and (I'd say) 4 
> > pages for articles.
>
> I guess, you mean A4, not A3.
>
> > What Quim's proposed is that the content for the programme get done in 
> > the normal way, that the ads get handled by him, and that the GNOME 
> > Journal provides articles (6 or 7) for a special edition. Reprinting a 
> > best-of the past year, if there aren't enough new articles, or perhaps 
> > doing interviews with keynotes for cheap column inches, is also an option.
>
> I just checked our archives. As I said in my frist answer, using the
> content is legal but it will make the program look strange.
>
> I mean: Just imageing to open a conference program to find, dunno, an
> opinon piece about marketing GNOME! Or an app review! Don't you think
> that'll be strange? The most appropriate content are the deployment
> stories.
>
> However. I just talked to Lucas Rocha. He's glad to help organizing and
> coordinating new articles, dedicated to more appropriate topics around
> GUADEC.
>
> He already submitted a paper for GUADEC about the GNOME Journal so that
> fits very nicely. :-)
>
> But if we can't find writers, I suggest to simply use the GUADEC
> web page header graphic for the program front page. It's probably made
> in Inkscape anyway, and will fit perfectly.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Claus
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