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Moving ahead with steps to produce the first magazine

TMB Tanzeem Mohammad Basheer Mon 6 Oct 2025 5:24AM Public Seen by 49

See https://codema.in/d/NFUtAlox/a-dedicated-print-magazine-

To move ahead, I suggest we can start collecting articles written in markdown or latex through a codeberg or Gitlab repository.

The Git repo may be run through a Docops setup to publish the articles after review and can be finalised after peer review to a website.

We may keep a last date of collecting articles and once the articles are published on the website. We may have a dedicated website eg named

libre-ezine.fsci. in

The contents published in the website may be selectively taken as

selected for a print Magazine. We can keep a last date for print publishing after coming to a consensus on the number of copies to be printed.

So next steps could be

  1. Create a repo on codeberg or other suitable site

  2. Setup Devops(Docops) for publising articles committed to repo

  3. Call for articles

  4. Peer review

  5. Website publish

  6. Finalize the print edition

  7. Marketing for getting people to buy the Magazine

  8. Consensus related on howmuch copies, print method to be followed

  9. Get fund for printing

  10. Get people

  11. Print the Magazines

  12. Sell the Magazine

  13. The fund from the magazines may be distributed to contributers based on their efforts after coming to a consensus

BS

Badri Sunderarajan Mon 6 Oct 2025 7:31AM

Why "ezine" if it's going to be in print? Also, we should form the editorial team and come up with some guidelines before calling for articles etc.

TMB

Tanzeem Mohammad Basheer Tue 7 Oct 2025 5:10AM

it was based on one of the replies that having an online edition in addition to the print edition is better. An online edition will always be good i feel. So we can go ahead with forming the editorial team and formulation of guidelines using a collaborative etherpad.

BS

Badri Sunderarajan Tue 7 Oct 2025 6:38AM

@Tanzeem Mohammad Basheer makes sense. We should decide how we want the online articles to be released (all at the same time as print, serially before print, etc.). And also think of a better name! But we can decide all that in the pad once we get volunteers

TMB

Tanzeem Mohammad Basheer Wed 8 Oct 2025 8:41AM

@Badri Sunderarajan Can you start a poll on what you exactly told or prepare a pad and share it.