[Zope] Zope magazine

[Marcello Parra Martins]

I agree with you, but as a beginner, this magazine could be a good font of
information to me.
But I think they've made some mistakes:

- why they did not offer the magazine free for some time, until they have
some more content ?

- how many articles will be published each month ??

- it's very expensive for a new online magazine. Take the example of
Newsweak: you subscribe for a year (108 PRINTED issues) for about US$ 75,00.
   Zope magazine is 90 Euros (about US$ 80), more than a weekly (printed and
delivered) magazine. Sorry, but too expensive.

I repeat: it's a great idea, but not the way they've made it.

Thanks,
Marcello Parra


----- Original Message -----
From: "Heimo Laukkanen" <huima@fountainpark.org>
To: <mark@beehive.de>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 11:01 AM
Subject: [Zope] Zope magazine


> Hi Mark ( and everyone on the c:d zope-mailinglist),
>
> just stumbled into Zopemag-site and saw what you at behiive have been
> up to (http://zopemag.com/Issue001/index.html). My first thougth was
> that what a nice idea, untill I realized that it isn't that great idea
> - since the magazine is based on paid subscriptions.
>
> I do know that people need to get paid for their work, but that also
> raises the question about what people are getting for the money they
> pay. For example judging by the first issue ( it is not fair to judge
> by the covers, I know ) , there isn't much to pay for yet.
>
> I am all up to educating people more about zope and canonical
> documents like good howto's reports, articles and books are propably
> the best guidance -- and after that people need technical
> documentation. Zopemag now raises a couple of questions:
>
> 1) What is editorial policy:
>       - who can and will contribute
>       - what do you will pay for the contributors
>
> 2) Openess policy
>       - how much content will be open in the future
>         for example would something like making the previous
>         numbers free be out of the question?
>       - what open services will be developed?
>
>
> If the world would be ideal place, I would like to see something like
> zopemag as a completely open system, or partly paid and for example
> archive as open content. I feel that magazine like content is really
> good to tie thing together and get people to find products and other
> howto's that migth interst them.
>
> Of course my point of view is only about educating people and myself,
> since I do not make money out of selling Zope-knowledge, even though I
> make money out of creating services and applications with Zope.
>
> Please answer and start discussion about what community could do to
> support something like zopemag and vice versa. I feel that if made
> well, something like zopemag could be really good -- like the really
> active personal zope-portals have sofar been.
>
> By the way - the idea of zope in intranet's is really well. I am just
> finishing my thesis to a polytechnic about building intranet to
> support implementation of strategy -- and supprise supprise
> as a case example I present an intranet built with Zope and CMF.
>
> -huima
>
>
>
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