[Actionchix] Brainstorm: Creating woman-friendly Linux on-line mag

[Selbak, Rolla N]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sulamita Garcia [mailto:sulamita at linuxchix.org.br] 
>Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 2:48 AM
>To: Selbak, Rolla N
>Cc: actionchix at linuxchix.org
>Subject: Re: [Actionchix] Brainstorm: Creating woman-friendly 
>Linux on-line mag
>
>Rolla, this is an outstanding idea. Please count on me as one of the
>writers, read proofing, finding other writers and so. I'm very bad at
>making the layout, but I know people who can teach me.

Great!

>
>There is some sort of Zines going on here in Brazil, we could have a
>LinuxChix Zine. I also will make an effort to create a group 
>to translate
>it.

That is actually a _very_ good point - translation.  This should be part of our process.

>
>About licensing, I believe there are some sorts of licenses we 
>could look
>at, like the GNU FDL, Creative Commons, or just "you can copy, quote or
>modify as long as you cite the author/source".


Great, glad someone knows about the legal stuff better than I do  :)

rs

>
>regards,
>
>> Hey Chix,
>>
>> Since there are so many wonderful, talented writers in the group, and
>> since we already have linuxchix set up with a webserver, why not have
>> the on-line mag attached to the website?  (something like 
>linuxchix/mag)
>>
>> Suggested steps:
>>
>> - Create a wiki where linuxchix can upload their articles 
>and get them
>> proof-read/copy-edited. (I guess we could do a vote on 
>whether later on,
>> we'd invite others to write or to contribute, even guys? Anyway, we
>> could vote later on this)
>>
>> - The articles from the wiki will be collected throughout the month
>> (assuming a monthly pub. since we're all pretty busy being 
>super Linux
>> chix with jobs)
>>
>> - Once collected, there will be an appointed person(s) 
>(maybe Isabelle
>> Hurbain?  You said you might have time?) or we could vote of 
>course on
>> who this person(s) is?  Either way, they would use their favorite
>> editor, and put all the articles together, throw in a few 
>images to go
>> along with the articles.
>>
>> - They'd be a linuxchix-mag committee who would give the final
>> suggestions on the publication (or it could just be open to all
>> linuxchix, again, depending on who has the time), and voila!
>>
>> Other notes:
>>
>> - I'm not very good with the legal stuff, but we could even 
>say it's an
>> 'open source' mag since all the article submissions, editing 
>and final
>> decisions would be made out in the open.
>>
>> - We could over free advertising for any woman-friendly or 
>woman-centric
>> folks so we can spread their word.
>>
>>
>> Of course, this is a high-level plan, there would still need to be a
>> process or two in place for this like format, content, etc.
>>
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> rs
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