nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Nigel Metheringham) (05/31/91)
By now those of you owning NeXTs in the UK will have received an
initial issue of Connect - which are you invited to pay largish
sums of money to continue receiving. Here we have decided we are
not interested. There also does not appear to be any real active
NeXT User group within the UK, although it appears that a number of
Universities and other establishments have machines.
Hence I am proposing a NeXT on Campus style electronic publication.
This is intended to cost us (and you) no money at all, other than
time put in producing it. It would be produced in WriteNow for
printing on A4 paper. Diagrams would have to be incorporated into
WriteNow documents (The reason for these restrictions is so that
everyone owning a NeXT can read, print and submit articles).
Articles could be contributed by anyone who wanted to contribute,
and could cover all NeXT related issues. I would attempt to get
some dealers and possibly NeXT people themselves to contribute. My
initial vision is for something aimed pretty much at the academic
sector, although I have no objection to commercial or private
contribution or take up of the magazine.
Distribution has yet to be discussed. I think probably it would not
be a candidate for News transfer, although we could put a note in
news when a new issue was available, or occasionally put out a call
for articles. The best ways would be mailing out to
individuals/sites or (preferably) to make it available on a FTP site
or info server.
The real purpose of this article is to ask:-
1. Do people think this is a good idea?
2. What would you like to see in it?
This includes what you feel should be the target
audience (academics/"real people") etc...
3. Would you be prepared to contribute?
4. Would you be prepared to help edit?
5. Comments about distribution methods.
6. Should this be UK only or Europe-wide??
7. Number of possibly interested people at your site?
8. Anything else???
If you have any NeXT using Colleagues or friends who could be
interested, but don't/can't read news, please pass this on to them.
Please can comments etc come by email to me (I can take NeXTmail,
but I'll have to edit these into a news article, so no great wadges
of WN or PS documents please!). I will summarise the answers
around 14 June, and we can then use that as a basis for newsgroup
discussion (I am trying to defuse the initial hunting stage of
discussion so that I can make a reasonably cogent proposal around
which further discussion can take place).
Thanks
Nigel.
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# University of York, Heslington, York, UK, YO1 5DD #nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Nigel Metheringham) (06/14/91)
[My original article had a european distribution, I'm putting this article on a world distribution to catch the more detached parts of Europe. If you are outside Europe then you can hit "n" now...] Hi, Two weeks back I posted a proposal for a NeXT-On-Campus like magazine for the UK/Europe. To summarise, this is intended to be a no-money co-operative magazine produced in WriteNow format and distributed electronically to all interested people. Articles could be contributed by anyone who could put the work in, and a few of us (probably based here at York initially) would edit it together and start the distribution. The scope of the magazine was to be NeXT users within Europe, and would probably have a slight bias to Academic users 'cos we have the facilties to put it together, although we would welcome input from any interested parties. I have got very few replies back, and so was considering dropping the idea. However I have been persuaded that it is worth putting together a trial issue to see how it goes, so I'll do that when things quieten down a bit - say mid July. I have had some interest from one of the UKs NeXT dealers who is willing to contribute, and I will try approaching NeXT UK themselves. If you are interested in this idea, then please contact me by email (NeXTmail is OK) - especially if you have any articles you would be willing to contribute. I will probably put in some technicalish stuff on adding hardware to slabs (I am about to try adding a disk and DAT to our systems), and that will include information on where we can get good pricing for the hardware. Nigel. PS Yes I know about the UK NeXT User Group, and Connect Magazine. We started this idea up because we thought Connect is vastly overpriced, and the User Group looked not up to much! -- # Nigel Metheringham # (NeXT) EMail: nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk # # System Administrator ####### Phone: +44 904 432374 # # Department of Electronics # Fax: +44 904 432335 # # University of York, Heslington, York, UK, YO1 5DD #