[Bf-docboard] Blender Proceedings

[Willie Pierce]

I'd charge a yearly subscription say like 20 usd a year do a weekly video tutorial pod cast and then have the downloadable copy.  Don't do paper.  Have a comments section a tutorial section featured plug in and featured artist.

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Willie Pierce
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On Oct 21, 2010, at 10:32 AM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:

> Hi docboard,
> 
> This is on my agenda for a long time, but there's been too many other  
> things!
> Luckily I am getting more free time now. :)
> 
> Here's an idea I have to get public funding via our community to  
> increase the quantity and quality of documentation projects.
> 
> "Blender Proceedings"
> 
> - Magazine style and size, full color
> - 80 pages, 130 grs paper, 200 grs cover
> - Regular issues, like 4 x per year
> - Contents available in wiki.blender.org compatible formatting and  
> license
> - Printed versions being sold online, pdf freely downloadable
> 
> Topics for a Proceedings issue can depend on anything we consider  
> worth investing time in. Especially it can become a means for our  
> active documenters (and new writers) to spend considerable time on a  
> documentation project while getting a fee paid for it. I also consider  
> to invite developers to participate in this, to get good technical docs.
> 
> In many cases a Proceedings can be filled by multiple authors, they  
> then just share the fees. An editor (and reviewer) should be found as  
> well, who can get a mentoring fee.
> 
> The name "Proceedings" has been picked to not present this as manual  
> or tutorials, but to always strive for reflecting current development,  
> or important missing docs for Blender. Issues can also be a report on  
> activities such as the Sintel Open Movie project, or the full report  
> on all presentations at the Blender Conference.
> To make issues somewhat attractive, artwork or galleries can be  
> included as well.
> 
> Bizzplan:
> 
> - printing costs 4000 euro (1000 copies)
> - writer fixed fee: 3000 euro
> - mentor fixed fee: 500 euro
> - DTP design: 2400 euro
> 
> With a sales price of 19 euro, it will need to sell a little over 500  
> to get return of costs. My estimate is we can sell maybe a 1000,  
> provided it's well designed and attractive. Profits then goes to  
> financing the next issue. The better it works, the more docs.
> 
> After doing a first issue, we can also evaluate it, and offer a  
> subscription model to pre-finance it all (4 issues for 60 euro).
> 
> Start shooting crits! :)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Ton-
> 
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