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Pretty much a similar question to http://lockergnome.net/questions/186910/do-you-know-of-any-open-source-magazine-projects but about newsletters. I think a magazine is too large for me for now. I think a monthly/or weekly(?) PDF-kind-of-thing newsletter would be better. So... do you know of any open source newsletter projects? NOT newsletters ABOUT open source but newsletters that ARE open source. Thanks! |
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I don't know of any. I also realized I never responded to you last time. If you are still interested in starting your own, you could start with a journaling website that has a Content Management System designed for journalism. For example, run Drupal (http://drupal.org) with OpenPublish (http://openpublishapp.com). Build a community of journalists who are willing to write to your open-source newsletter/magazine with a welcoming for more journalists to come join in. Maybe build a system where anyone could write a story then have others edit it for facts or grammer using a version control system (Not certain, but might be able to make a hack to do this using GitHub pulls or someting with articles in plaintext on a git server). Then from there, take whichever stories and either wrap them up in an ePub or PDF or whichever you were looking forward to (regarding this, I personally LOVE my RSS reader, just saying ;P). Considering a lot of front-end stuff is freely available out there, you could expect to spend more time developing a back-end system that accomodates whatever method for open-source journling you decide on. I also think the hardest part in maintaining such a community will be in gathering newcomers and directing their content accordingly. Thanks for a lengthy and interesting answer. (If no one posts a better answer, then I'll choose yours as the accepted answer). Thanks! |
