Want to contribute something to a Ruby cultural artifact?
I’m creating a non-profit quarterly Ruby / Rails magazine and am looking for contributors. The “magazine” will act as a cultural artifact of the Ruby scene. About 15 Rubyists will supply a page of any content of their choosing, perhaps tips, art, rants, coding stories, self promotion, whatever. Blogs may be deleted in the future, but paper lives on!
The magazine itself will be sold at the lowest possible price; non-profit. Full color - about 24 pages per issue. Content can either be provided production ready (with, yes, pretty much full control over the design) or just in textual / other form and then adapted for print by me. I anticipate a deadline of the start of September with a view to publish the first issue as Quarter 4 of 2008 in October. If you’re interested or know someone you’d love to appear in such a publication, post comments here. Thanks!
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I haven’t purchased a magazine in the last two years, but I’d buy this one.
Cool! Well keep an eye out as it’ll be announced here when the time comes (and on Ruby Inside). If you have suggestions of who’d you like to see in the magazine, definitely drop your suggestions here. Already a few prominent Rubyists have signed up, so it should be great.
Does this have anything with the mag mentioned by Jeremy McAnally at RubyFringe?
No. This is separate and non-competing. I believe the Rubyist is a more traditional type of magazine with edited articles, advertisers, lots of useful content, paid contributors, etc.
This magazine (and “magazine” is used very loosely) is more of an experimental, underground type thing. Very arty, and primarily for fun and art’s sake.
this would be awesome, i’d buy/subscribe to it. Maybe produce some content for it.
Is there site for this? or is this the basecamp as of right now?
thomasswift: A site is coming ASAP. The first step has been to get some people who are willing to contribute. Thankfully there are already seven (and only 14 are needed per issue) just in one day so it’s time for full steam ahead!
The “basecamp” is essentially me, so e-mail me at my first name /at/ petercooper.co.uk :)
Cheers, Peter!
I’m totally in if you still have more room.
Definitely interested.
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