[LRUG] [HELP NEEDED] LRUG Gazette - a physical newspaper!!?!

[Tom Stuart]

Hi Murray!

Long time no speak! How are you doing? Two things:

1. I'd love to contribute to this. Do you already have someone for the
crossword? I'm thinking it would be fun to do a dual-clue puzzle, where
both sets of clues lead to the same answers, but one set is cryptic clues
and the other set is Ruby code.
2. After 12 years in Berlin, I'm moving back to the UK with my little
family. Who are the companies I should be talking to? I can do up to two
days a week in a London office and I'm looking for management roles (open
to staff IC roles in backend/infra, but I think I'm a bit out of date there
to be honest.)

Tom

On Sat, 18 May 2024, 11:17 Murray Steele, <murray.steele at lrug.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> If you were at our May meeting last Monday (13th) you’ll have heard me
> talk about wanting to put together a physical newspaper for the LRUG
> community.
>
> https://lrug.org/gazette/
>
> I don’t really know what might be in there, but I came up with a masthead,
> tweaked the LRUG logo, and put it on a webpage, so I guess that means it
> has to exist!
>
> I’m looking for ruby-themed classic newspaper content like:
>
> * A crossword
> * A 3-panel gag strip
> * 100 word micro articles on favourite LRUG talks from the past
> * Long form opinion pieces about the ruby ecosystem
> * Reviews of new gem releases as if they were albums or movies
> * Advice columns
> * Competitions
> * Travel advice for the summer conference season
> * Sensational headlines
> * ...
> * <%= your_ideas %>
>
> I think this would be fun and I’d love to see what kinds of things we can
> fill it with.  Get in touch if you have ideas or would like to volunteer to
> produce something.
>
> I’m also keen to hear from anyone who has any print industry experience
> and can help me with using the tools.  The service I’m looking at using (
> https://www.newspaperclub.com/) to produce the newspaper has templates
> for indesign, canva, and scribus.  I don’t have indesign money, so I’m
> struggling through with scribus.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Murray
> Editor-in-chief, Publisher, Designer - The LRUG Gazette
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