[Mageia-dev] community magazine of Mageia

Sat Sep 18 23:12:15 CEST 2010

Hi all
+
+I would love to collaborate, but first I have to go through
+spanish-translators team, my English is very poor :-P
+
+2010/9/18 Olivier Méjean <omejean at yahoo.fr>
+
+> Hello there :)
+>
+> As some you may know, i am the founder of the French community Mandriva
+> Magazine called Magnum : http://wiki.mandriva.com/fr/MAGNUM (fell free to
+> download past issues)
+>
+> I am no developer, no more do i package, i may do bug reports, so i can't
+> help
+> much on technical side. I am rather on advocate side, promote the distro i
+> use
+> (Mandriva for the moment, Mageia in the future)
+>
+> I want to create a community magazine for Mageia. Instead of creating for
+> just
+> french community, i want it for the whole community.
+>
+> What is needed for it is quite simple :
+> - writers for articles. Articles can be written by technical or
+> non-technical
+> people. Articles are on presenting a development, a new technology, a
+> software, tutorials, report of an event, presentation of community,
+> interview,
+> etc.
+>
+> - translators. I would like to publish each magazine in as many languages
+> possible, english, french, german, spanish, portuguese, greek, finnish,
+> italian, ... An article can be written in any language then translate into
+> english then translate into all other languages.
+>
+> - proof-readers to ensure quality of the texts. From my experience there is
+> a
+> need of 2 or 3 proof reading of each article. maybe a first proof reading
+> in
+> the first language used is to be set before translation.
+>
+> - The work of layout. Scribus is the best for publishing, it is free and
+> free.
+> With layer i think it is possible to have one layout for all translated
+> magazines. Layout is also about including images, styles (once defined they
+> should not change to much, btw use free fonts)
+>
+> - Advocates that announce the publication thougout the web
+>
+> - (oh, once more, a packager to create the rpm so users of mageia just have
+> to
+> install an rpm !)
+>
+> - i was about to forget : chief editors to shout after writers who promise
+> to
+> write but did not have time to, to shout after translators who promise to
+> translate but did not have time to, to shout after proof-readers who
+> promise
+> to proof-red but..., to shout after layouters who promise ... so you see
+> the
+> point ;-)
+>
+> So, it is a nice stuff, it required manpower. French community was too
+> small
+> for a release each month (ah, yes, i plan to release it each month), i hope
+> with an international community it will be easier to fill the magazine.
+>
+> What do you think of it ? Am i completely silly or just silly ?
+>
+> Feel free to react, comment, agree, join me !
+>
+>
+> --
+> Olivier Méjean
+> Président de l'Association des Utilisateurs Francophones de Mandriva Linux
+> http://mandrivafr.org
+> twitter : obagoom
+> identi.ca : goom
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