[Wikimediaindia-l] Newsletter?

[Hari Prasad Nadig]

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline at gmail.com>wrote:

> However, I'm not clear about how this should be shaped. Is this going to be
>> an official Wikimedia newsletter? (seeing that it is titled "Wikimedia India
>> Newsletter"). Given that Wikimedia official newsletters are brought in a
>> slightly different manner (
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_newsletter), can you share the
>> ideas and objective behind the planned newsletter so that it brings more
>> clarity to the contributors?
>>
>
>
> Sure. The aim is to share the community news of the various Indian Language
> Wiki communities. As you can see from the PDF that I shared with you,
> several languages already provided the community News. So requesting Kannada
> wiki community also to be part of this.
>
> It is the community newsletter. So I think it is better to name it as *WikiMedia
> India Community* News Letter. I will change like that.
>

How about using the name "Wikizine India"? or even "Wikipedia India
Community newsletter" seems better.


> Once the chapter is formed, chapter can think about taking this forward
> from the next version of the News letter.
>
> Also observed that the draft of the newsletter I've received is crashing
>> though on evince viewer (on debian lenny). It could be useful if you could
>> share details about the software used to create the PDF. Probably Inkscape
>> pros from the community could help? :)
>>
>
>
> Typesetting is done using Open Office writer. It is still going on. I have
> enabled *Commenting using Adobe Reader *feature in the PDF that I sent to
> you. That might be the reason why it is crashed. I will send you a normal
> PDF soon.
>

May I suggest that we collaborate on the design and structure as well? Maybe
put up the newsletter in SVG on some page so that others can contribute?
It'd then be easier to invite other volunteers to contribute as well. Or
even collaborating on Wiki for text, structure and then designing it a final
round?
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