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

[Najaf Ali]

Also great to hear from all of you 👴🏼

Guessing getting episodes of this in Japan will be a bit of a stretch?

On Sun, May 26, 2024 at 12:45 PM Stephen Bartholomew <sb at beginrescue.com>
wrote:

> It’s good for us all to hear how you’re doing though 😄
>
> I love your idea for the crossword. I started playing around writing a
> crossword generator that could have the code included - like the old BASIC
> code write-ups in magazines.
>
> On 26 May 2024, at 11:03, Tom Stuart <tom at tomstuart.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 
> Dear lrug,
>
> It is also apparently a long time since I interacted with this mailing
> list, and I forgot that the reply-to address would be the list. Sorry about
> that, and hi.
>
> T
>
> On Sun, 26 May 2024, 11:58 Tom Stuart, <tom at tomstuart.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> 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 to staff IC roles in backend/infra, but I think I'm a bit out of date there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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