hi guys ive been thinking that since we are all a memberof the community, we know each other we could put together an e-zine, very easily, using a pdf format which we could send through ezboard to everyones EZbox say once a month, with burning issues, new art, opinion peices etc.
I got the idea from the excellent Anthlogy that Clare is putting out this month, but since i already have edited and produced a magazine fr the lgbc for 6 months, have indesign, the acrobat software etc, i already have a usable template to alter to our requirements, so basically there is no cost incurred at all by the community its free to do, and i am quite happy to do the design work, have people send in work etc, put it together then have someone edit it after me, because i do have dyslexia and do make mistakes....
especially on a forum like this where there is no spell check. but basically i am working on a magazine as its editor, i have a full 20 page layout that i can mod quite easily, and have a massive lbrary of images i have taken myself and created, and combined with everone elses im sure we can pull this off. ican do most of theputting together, just need one or two people to have a read, then i upload it into everones EZbox.
i am quite proficient with that as i have to send ithe lgbc magazine to the printers oncea month anyway, so the technical aspects of magazine production arnt too difficult and it is as an adobe file it goes usually anyway. all we all need to read it is the free reader software from adobe, wheras i already have the full adobe ctreation suite.
so what do folk think? if you guys like the idea we can ask Rai if we canborrow the official logo from mnb to put on the eZine, since it will only go to the mnb membership anyway.... its just a nice way of keeping in touch even if we dont sign in every day.
anyhow, have a think....
Adam
I got the idea from the excellent Anthlogy that Clare is putting out this month, but since i already have edited and produced a magazine fr the lgbc for 6 months, have indesign, the acrobat software etc, i already have a usable template to alter to our requirements, so basically there is no cost incurred at all by the community its free to do, and i am quite happy to do the design work, have people send in work etc, put it together then have someone edit it after me, because i do have dyslexia and do make mistakes....
especially on a forum like this where there is no spell check. but basically i am working on a magazine as its editor, i have a full 20 page layout that i can mod quite easily, and have a massive lbrary of images i have taken myself and created, and combined with everone elses im sure we can pull this off. ican do most of theputting together, just need one or two people to have a read, then i upload it into everones EZbox.
i am quite proficient with that as i have to send ithe lgbc magazine to the printers oncea month anyway, so the technical aspects of magazine production arnt too difficult and it is as an adobe file it goes usually anyway. all we all need to read it is the free reader software from adobe, wheras i already have the full adobe ctreation suite.
so what do folk think? if you guys like the idea we can ask Rai if we canborrow the official logo from mnb to put on the eZine, since it will only go to the mnb membership anyway.... its just a nice way of keeping in touch even if we dont sign in every day.
anyhow, have a think....
Adam
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