[Zope] Zope magazine

[Marcello Parra Martins]

Just a correction: in the example of Newsweek, US$ 75 are for TWO years of
subscription. One year is just US$ 43.
For the price of one year of Zope magazine, you can subscribe TWO years of
Newsweek.

You can say: So go and subscribe Newsweak !!!  But that's not the point. I'm
just using it as a comparation.
I liked the idea and want lng life to Zope Mag. But with this price you
won't have much subscribers.


Marcello Parra


----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcello Parra Martins" <lista@parra.locaweb.com.br>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope magazine


> 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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