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From: nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Nigel Metheringham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: UK/Europe NeXT on Campus like magazine
Summary: Is this a good idea?
Message-ID: <1991May31.133646.10383@ohm.york.ac.uk>
Date: 31 May 91 13:36:46 GMT
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Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK
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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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