On Sunday, December 04, 2011 07:23:20 PM Manu Gupta wrote:
Hi All,
I think its the perfect oppurtunity for everyone to start working on openSUSE Magazine. We all have been interested but the idea got lost somewhere since none of us had enough time.
One of the results of GCI was design for the magazine. While printing of the magazine maybe very expensive. I think we can create this magazine for inviting new sponsors to the project and also for the upcoming openSUSE Conference. So printing a few 100 copies and sending it across should not matter but thats upto Jos to decide.
Linux Journal changed this year from printed form to electronic. Reason, majority of expenses were around printing and delivering. Although, there is a lot of content on the web free of charge, they obviously hope to provide quality that poeple will pay for. Reading printed on a paper is interesting only to older generation growing with books and magazines, younger use computers and related devices. What can make magazine interesting and worth to read is quality content. Blogs, forums posts, wiki, IRC have various level of quality, magazine should be much more serious about its selection of published articles.
Please have a look at the design, I will soon set up it in the artwork repo for openSUSE and if somebody can do that for me, it will be great as I have bandwidth and speed limitations as of now. Patches are always welcome :) http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2011/7174228
From GCI perspective I consider work done, as it used elements and colors that we use everywhere.
From non GCI perspective it looks good if we accept that only offical mascot (no shape and color changes allowed) and green can be used anywhere in a design, which, in my humble opinion, is not the case.
(I guess it is a time to subscribe to git<something> and start uploading Geeko variations that are easy copy-paste element for future designs.)
Thanks a lot.
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