Subj : editorial dreams
To   : August Abolins
From : Richard Falken
Date : Sun Jun 14 2020 05:59:00

 AA> I don't know what your ideas for content would be, 
 AA> but in addition to  
 AA> supporting submissions from readers, you could 
 AA> single-handedly provide a  
 AA> sections for "Best of echomail this week" to 
 AA> highlight an interesting/ 
 AA> funny topic that is surfacing elsewhere on an 
 AA> othernet, or a book review  
 AA> related to tech/computers, or a "The Rest of the 
 AA> story.." section that  
 AA> fills in the gaps that FTN history has left out or 
 AA> forgotten, "New Ascii  
 AA> art for the week",  oooh.. there is so much 
 AA> possible. You don't have to  
 AA> duplicate the Software Lists or file source lists, but could have  
 AA> something that those lists lack.
 
I say we take a successful magazine, analyze its structure, and make a small version of it:
 
Say, Linux Magazine:
 
* An Opinion Editorial as an opener.
* FOSS news.
* Kernel development mailing list summary of the month.
* The core articles(some in - depth tutorials mixed with light software reviews, usually).
* Another Opinion Editorial.
* "This is an issue I solve with this tool" one pager.
* More articles, and a collection of "free software hidden gems nobody knows about, but you should"
 
It is about 10k USD of paid author work per issue so I don't think we can clone it, but we can borrow ideas.
 
I would not give more than one section to each author, otherwise you risk buirning people. Believe me. My proposed structure for three people:
 
* Opening Opinion Editorial.
* Hidden gems, programs nobody knows about, but are great.
* Entertainment article (short story, movie review, book review)
 
If one of those people wants to take more work (against my advice) or
there are more contributors: 
* FOSS and network news.
 
If you can't get three people on board, discard the idea. If you can, consider building a non-profit in order to get givemmes from the government to fund the operation. Quite frankly, I am done with unpaid editorial or publishing idealistic work :-)
 
My starting price for fiction is 2 USD cents per word with a price agreement valid for one year and exclisuve rights for publication for 6 months :-)

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