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| Ronnie is extremely well organized, and manages to organize the FCM writers fairly consistently. Not only does he manage to send out regular reminder emails, organize replacement articles in advance, among other things, but he is also a very approachable person. If you send an email to him for whatever reason, you can expect more than just a terse, business-oriented reply from him! He is also the sort of person to continue to improve whatever process he is participating in, even when the current method works. An example: Even though we were using a wiki system to proof-read articles and make corrections to draft copies of the magazine, he continued to look for alternatives, finally settling on a mixture of google documents and dropbox for hosting of pdf files. I've found the new system to be much more efficient, and easier to manage on-the-go than the previous wiki-based system. As for the review copies of books, I was offered two Linux server books, which arrived promptly in the mail, and have so far reviewed one of them. Ronnie understands his writers' limitations, and is understanding when it comes to delays, making him an ideal editor for a community-based magazine. Lucas Westermana / Lswest. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~lswest |
Ronnie is extremely well organized, and manages to organize the FCM writers fairly consistently. Not only does he manage to send out regular reminder emails, organize replacement articles in advance, among other things, but he is also a very approachable person. If you send an email to him for whatever reason, you can expect more than just a terse, business-oriented reply from him! He is also the sort of person to continue to improve whatever process he is participating in, even when the current method works. An example: Even though we were using a wiki system to proof-read articles and make corrections to draft copies of the magazine, he continued to look for alternatives, finally settling on a mixture of Google Docs and dropbox for hosting of pdf files. I've found the new system to be much more efficient, and easier to manage on-the-go than the previous wiki-based system. As for the review copies of books, I was offered two Linux server books, which arrived promptly in the mail, and have so far reviewed one of them. Ronnie understands his writers' limitations, and is understanding when it comes to delays, making him an ideal editor for a community-based magazine. Lucas Westermann / Lswest. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~lswest |
About Me
I'm a part-time artist, recent convert from Kubuntu to Ubuntu, and am founder, and Editor, of Full Circle magazine (FullCircle), the free independent magazine for the Ubuntu Community, which has been running now for over three years.
I've been using computers since the days of the Commodore 64. My first entry into the 16-bit era was an Atari ST but my first true love was my Amiga A500, still unbeaten! When Commodore went bust (well, bought out I think) I got my first 386 PC with Windows 3.11. Windows 95, 98, ME (God ME was awful!) and XP, which was the last time I used Windows at home. With the announcement of Vista on the horizon I decided it was time to jump ship, and my first serious install of Linux was Ubuntu. I wasn't too keen on the GNOME desktop at first so tried KDE. No idea what I did after that, but it completely knackered my Linux install. I downloaded and installed Kubuntu, two years later and I was still using Kubuntu, but with the introduction of KDE4, I decided to try Ubuntu, and GNOME, and wouldn't change it for the world! Love it!
Contact
Name: Ronnie Tucker
Launchpad: ronnietucker
Email: ronnie@fullcirclemagazine.org
Site: http://fullcirclemagazine.org
IRC: ronnietucker on irc.freenode.net
Ubuntu Forums: RonnieT
Facebook: Ronnie Tucker
Twitter: Ronnie Tucker
Gtalk/Jabber: ronnietucker@jabber.org
Full Circle Magazine
As editor, it's my job to ensure that writers deadlines are met, have articles up for proof-reading on time, create the final PDF and liase with the various translation teams, allowing them read access to the English articles and offering help with Scribus to new translation teams. I also liase with several publishers to receive review copies of books (thus far: Apress, No Starch and Pearson) which are distributed (from me) for review or as prizes.
Testimonials
Please place your testimonials below ending with your Ubuntu.com wiki page, or LaunchPad page if you have one. If you've neither, just leave your name and nickname. Thanks!
Ronnie is extremely well organized, and manages to organize the FCM writers fairly consistently. Not only does he manage to send out regular reminder emails, organize replacement articles in advance, among other things, but he is also a very approachable person. If you send an email to him for whatever reason, you can expect more than just a terse, business-oriented reply from him! He is also the sort of person to continue to improve whatever process he is participating in, even when the current method works. An example: Even though we were using a wiki system to proof-read articles and make corrections to draft copies of the magazine, he continued to look for alternatives, finally settling on a mixture of Google Docs and dropbox for hosting of pdf files. I've found the new system to be much more efficient, and easier to manage on-the-go than the previous wiki-based system. As for the review copies of books, I was offered two Linux server books, which arrived promptly in the mail, and have so far reviewed one of them. Ronnie understands his writers' limitations, and is understanding when it comes to delays, making him an ideal editor for a community-based magazine. Lucas Westermann / Lswest. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~lswest
RonnieTucker (last edited 2013-06-29 17:05:59 by ronnietucker)