[FM Discuss] Martin Kean and Wall Newspapers

Tue May 17 03:31:38 PDT 2011

2011/5/16 Martin Kean <Martin.Kean at op.ac.nz>

> Hey!
>

Hello Martin,

> Yes I am still pursuing the FM Newspaper and will publish it in due course.
> I WOULD like to lead this, I have funding, and this is now one of my
> research goals for this year.
> I have here some points I would like feedback on:
>
> 1. I suggest an A1 spread Wall Newspaper rather than a broadsheet newspaper
> as I first proposed. The reasons include keeping the printing costs down,
> keeping the project manageable, and creating a publication that can be
> re-visited. If it's stuck to a wall, then it becomes a many-to-one
> reference, and fewer copies need printing.
>

I just arrived from LGM. I have a lot of discussion with some organizator on
LGM. One of the idea of LGM is to creat a magazine about Graphics Floss to
spread the word. This magazine can be print at house with any print and then
every people can help the magazine to be read.
In LGM board have two member of Scribus. They study this possibility and
think that a A5 is q good format to have a nice result.

So we can use Scribus (since Inkscape is not multipage, Scribus yes) to
creat the PDF. We can collabore in a newspaper with FM and LGM (Create is
the name of the support organisation). We can ask tips in creating this
home-made-newspaper.

Also i know enought about Scribus and well Gimp & Inkscape etc.

Elisa

>
> 2. The original content for this project was to be Digital Foundations, but
> there's just too much in the entire manual for one newspaper (let alone a
> WallPaper). I suggest either printing selected chapters from Digital
> Foundations as successive editions, or print another manual, for example An
> Open Web.
>
> 3. The original engine for generating the newspaper size PDF from the FM
> content was ObJavi, but after many frustrating attempts I can't get Objavi
> to style the columns and gutters the way I want. Also Objavi can't cope with
> 'extra pages' such as a cover page, or a back page with ads. I contacted
> Douglas for help with Objavi, PDFEdit etc with the promise of funding, but
> he's pretty busy with other things. So the options available to me are
> either Inkscape (single page PDF spreads) or a proprietary equivalent.
> Inkscape would be in keeping with the 'open content, open tools' philosophy
> of FM and Booki. Possibly, a New Zealand-wide (or further) student (or not)
> competition to format the first issue of FM WallPaper in Inscape spreads,
> and these would be four landscape A1 spreads, using two inks and open
> typefaces, from existing FM (or Booki FM) content.
>
> So any feedback about all this would be great.
> I am also trying to get in touch with Open Source Publishing based in
> Belgium.
> Adam -- I have never given up on the newspaper!
>
> Martin Kean
> Lecturer
> School of Design, room H502
> OTAGO POLYTECHNIC
> Forth Street, Dunedin
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> martin.kean at op.ac.nz
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> hi
>
> I was just reading the blog by long time FMer Martin Kean:
> http://martinkean.blogspot.com/2011/05/wall-newspaper.html
>
> It made me think - could we manage a 'WallNews' campaign promoting free
> software via FM? I was thinking about a monthly WallNews coming out -
> formatted as a US letter/A4 PDF - available as both a one page 'website'
> and also as a poster that anyone could print and put on their office
> bulletin board or paste to some poster wall somewhere etc...
>
> It would work best if it was well designed and had at least one cool
> illustration per issue and was also maybe a bit funny or at least well
> written, informative and light hearted. Maybe it could even feature a
> cartoon...
>
> then each month the article might be on a free software and referencing
> the softwares homesite and the fm docs...
>
> we could also try and get other orgs to push it to their constituency
> and see if we can get it to roll...
>
> anyways, just jamming ideas now...it could work pretty well i think as
> the action we want people to take is just to print it out and stick it
> on a wall somewhere...
>
> whataya rekin? anyone want to take this on? if so i would help push it
> hard though the fm newsletter and whatever other channels i can muster...
>
> adam
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