The Ubuntu Magazine Project

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We are planning to get our first magazine available on this coming July/Aug. Please show us your support by contributing to/partnering with us.

Announcements/Events

Next meeting 17 JUNE 2006
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The Magazine

• [wiki:UbuntuMagazine/TableOfContents Master Table of Contents]

• ["/Issue1"] - In Design
• ["/Issue2"] - Proposed
• ["/Issue3"] - Proposed
• ["/Issue4"] - Proposed
• ["/Issue5"] - Proposed
• ["/Issue6"] - Proposed
• ... more to come ...

News

06/18/2006- Meeting update

Main concerns were about the diff between us and the newsletter. We defined out core audience as people that might be

• interested in Linux (but not using it yet)
• switching distros
• beginners
• normal everyday users

(Jenda: very vague definitions... this entours just about anyone who has ever used Ubuntu or even just heard of it. I think the main target audience should be the people who use Ubuntu, but don't directly participate in community business)

(KenSentMe: @Jenda: Why should users contribute to the community. Maybe a lot of potentional users don't even want to participate in the community.)

We talked about the method of delivery and most of us agree that we want a html website with a .pdf and .txt version available as well.

(not sure why .txt format is needed. more often than not, readers will either have access to the net or take advantage of out-of-box ubuntu's PDF-support. text-only format would only be useful to those who only have console access, which would be a *very* minor percentage of the reader-base. plus, you can't use graphics/pictures to illustrate articles. references to screen-shots or websites would be meaningless. --digitalmouse)

We then had a collaborative draft using Gobby and realized a theme oriented magazine would be best.

Please see our [/TableOfContents] page for our working model.

Older News

19/10/2005 - We have decided to start with the E-zine while waiting for the reply from the publisher. Ubuntu Magazine is now a project under Ubuntu Marketing.

14/8/2005 - We are still waiting for Linux Magazine Publisher to email us. We are still designing our website.

7/8/2005 - UbuntuMagazine.com is now online! Thanks to Daejuan Jacobs for hosting the website. The site is now under construction!

Our Team

• Sara Vasquez - Current Team Lead

• [wiki:JoeyStanford Joey Stanford]

• [wiki:MartinPihl Martin Pihl]

• [wiki:nixternal Rich Johnson]

• KenSentMe

• Your name goes here! See below on how to join!

How to get involved

Please email to: sara@tikal26.net for more info or you can join us at [http://www.ubuntupeople.com/file/forums/viewforum.php?f=10 our forum].

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