Re: GNOME Journal

[Emily Gonyer <emilyyrose gmail com>]

Well, even if they're written as plain .txt files they can easily be copy/pasted into writer or impress, or another authoring program (I'm totally up for suggestions, those were just the first couple that came to my mind), along with relevant screenshots, clipart, etc. I absolutely agree that we should shoot to have it translated into Spanish at the very least, and preferably other languages as well. Perhaps it would be worth recruiting someone to oversee translation specifically for the journal?

Emily

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Emily Gonyer <emilyyrose gmail com> wrote:

I guess I sort of figured we'd just lay it out in libreoffice writer or impress, in the order we wanted the articles, and then export it as a PDF. I'm assuming most of our articles are going to be written as odt files to begin with, so it shouldn't be too hard to compile them all into one big file. I'm not sure about how we'd go about exporting to epub, kindle, mobi, etc, but surely theres a program or two that can take a PDF or .odt file and export it to mobi, epub, etc. Maybe I should check into that a bit more. :P

Let's talk about it.  Maybe we can figure it out.  I don't necessarily believe people will use libreoffice.  We don't want to fixate on any one technology.  It might be better to just to accept text.  We had a number of conversations in the past regarding what format to accept articles.  There might be something in the gnome-journal archives.  But in my opinion, text is the most easiest.

We went with textpattern mostly because we needed a platform now.  But otherwise, were going to do something complicated. 

I think the best thing to do is ask Shaun.  And see what he thinks.  He's a great resource for this kind of thing and he has helped us in the past.
 

I hadn't really thought about translation to other languages, although that too is a great idea. Perhaps we should contact the translation team(s) and see what their thoughts are. I suspect if we could provide them with a simple .odt file and then allowed them to re-export to PDF that would be easiest, though I could be wrong.

You want to be able to reach out to the largest amount of people you can.  We don't want to miss latin america which is really big into free software.  They are committed free software folks and we should try to fit them all in.

My two cents.

sri
 

Emily

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Emily Gonyer <emilyyrose gmail com> wrote:

I've just been brainstorming how we're going to publish the GNOME Journal/Quarterly Reports going forward, and was wondering what everyone thought of doing it online, but also offering a downloadable e-book version (in multilple formats - PDF, epub, kindle, etc), perhaps even checking how we could make it available on Amazon & other e-book retailers, for greater availability. 

I think that is a great idea.  During the early days of GNOME Journal, a lot of us wanted to do something like this.

We wanted to write an article using tags, then extract them out into PO files where the text could be translated by the translation team and then we could then push them out as pdf, text, html etc.

We in fact wrote all the tools, but didn't figure out a way to make it work on the journal itself.  However, the of GNOME used them!

Wordpress doesn't seem to lend itself to that kind of thing.  I don't know.
 

What does everyone think?

How would you propose doing this?  Also have you thought about translation into other languages?

sri
 

Emily

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