I had previously done some work on a plug-in developers guide for OpenJUMP. I realize now that my plans to put together this type of comprehensive document might have been a little overly ambitous. I would still like to work on OpenJUMP documentation, but I was thinking a more modular format that I could tackle as I had time would work better and be "less pressure". I thought a newsletter might be a good fit, since I could regularly release the content to our users and programmers.
I've been kicking around the idea of a newsletter for OpenJUMP over the last couple of weeks. I even went to the library to get some books on newsletter design and layout. I was thikning of a newsletter that would be created using Scribus and Inkscape, and that would be distrubuted in PDF format. Each (quarterly?) issue would follow this template for its content: News "Using OpenJUMP" Article (Target Audience: OpenJUMP Users) "Plug-It In" Article (Target Audience: OpenJUMP Plug-In Programmers) "Into The Core" Article (Target Audience: OpenJUMP Core Programmers) "OJ Talk" (An interview with an OpenJUMP programmer or user.) I'd even consider including a free classified section for help wanted adds or other ads related to OpenJUMP. Here are some of the article titles I was thinking of for the first issue: Understanding OpenJUMP Feature Geometry Types (For Users) Using Extensions and FeatureInstallers to Install Plug-Ins (For Plug-In Programmers) The Task Object (For Core Programmers) Here is my question: Would there be anyone else interested in contributing content to our editing an OpenJUMP newsletter? If there are a few of us that would like to participate, then I would like to open up the process to decide what the newsletter would look like and contain. In this case, I'd make the newsletter a production of the Jump Pilot Project and would use JPP colors and logos in the newsletter design. It there isn't a lot of interest in this production, then I might try to tackle the newsletter myself. In this case I would brand it with my own small business colors and logos. Please let me know what you think. The Sunburned Surveyor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
