Re: [Cdk-user] A CDK Newsletter?

[E.L. W. (Egon) <eg...@sc...>]

Hi all,

here is a follow up of my first email. Sofar, Christoph responded and told me 
he was interested in such a newsletter too. However, no one else responded.
Therefore this email with more details.

I've had a look at the system used for the R News (see 
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews), from which I want to use the 
stylesheet... this would mean that the news letter source code will be LaTeX. 
Contributing an article this format would be highly appreciated. And 
introduction in the format, which is almost as easy as using Notepad..., can 
looks like:

\title{Interactive IO}
\subtitle{how IO filters interact with users}
\author{by Egon Willighagen}

\maketitle

<article goes here>

\address{Egon Willighagen\\
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands\\
\email{eg...@sc...}}
 
More comments below...

On Wednesday 15 October 2003 10:03, E.L. Willighagen wrote:
> CDK is getting larger and more used every day. Even though I have a pretty
> good overview of what is going on with the CDK, it might be time to start a
> three-monthual newsletter with short articles on CDK internals, use and
> maybe small tutorials. Aimed mainly at users, but very interesting to
> developers too, because it is no longer feasible to understand the whole of
> CDK.
>
> Thus, I would like to start a newsletter. A good example is the 'R News'
> newsletter http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/, or the R Project which
> makes an OpenSource statistical software package (very good btw, though
> graphics are not as good as MatLab yet).

Attached is a PDF with the layout I hope to use... (you will see that I still 
have a problem with the second page...)

> Such a news letter would contain articles describing the use of CDK on any
> level. This means, it could be an explanation/display of a program using
> CDK too, e.g. a commercial program (CDK is LGPL afterall), so it might be a
> nice platform for sort of advertisement too. And I think advertisement for
> a program that uses CDK, is advertisement for CDK too.

I have a few regular articles in mind: an editoral (a must have), a changelog 
with the new/changed things in CDK, and a article which lists recently 
published articles that in some way deal with CDK.

But, that's not enough to fill a news letter... I would like one or two more 
regular columns, and articles... I can write one article per issue myself, 
but you can understand I need to users input too, with respect to 
articles...:

> That my intention. *But* I won't be able to do this by myself. So I am
> looking for people who can/will help me setup this newsletter, and people
> who want/can write articles for the newsletter.
>
> So, if you are using CDK, and you like it, and you have time to write a
> short article on using CDK in whatever way of about 1 A4, please contact
> me. Oh yes, they articles will be copyrighted FDL, thus there is the option
> of invariant parts, for those who know the details ;)

Is the license for anyone reason not to be interested in writing articles?
What other option would you prefer then?

> If this things hits of, I'll setup a new mailling list specifically for
> sending articles etc.
>
> Please let me know what you think of it...

Once again, please let me know your comments and ideas.

kind regards,

Egon

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PhD Molecular Representation in Chemometrics
Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry
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