[FM Discuss] Martin Kean and Wall Newspapers

Tue May 17 18:17:10 PDT 2011

2011/5/18 Martin Kean <Martin.Kean at op.ac.nz>

>
> Hi Elisa,
>
> Thanks for your message. That's a good idea to create a Graphics Floss
> magazine.
> And thanks for your offer to collaborate on this Wall-Paper project.
> Will Scribus be okay to create the pages?
>

Yes Scribus is a desktop publishing free softwares.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus

It was his job :)

Elisa

> Martin
>
> 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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> 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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