Electronic Publishing by College Students

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2 total messages Started by Aaron Smith Mon, 23 Nov 1992 03:47

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Author: Aaron Smith
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 03:47

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I am looking for other students, college level, who are interested in
the area of electronic publishing and information distribution.  I am
interested in starting a nation-wide student organization (staff) whose
goal would be to publish a monthly periodical, distributed via CD-ROM, 
whose goal would be to increase the exchange of information between the
students and faculty of as many colleges/universities as possible.  

Topics covered will range from local college news to job offerings, from
industry computer news from NEWSBYTES to student research papers, and
would of course include articles concentrating on student interests.  The
essence would be to target subjects that college-age students want to 
read about. 

MULTIMEDIA - I've done a lot of research into the field of multimedia and
try to keep up with the latest and greatest trends.  I believe that we
could effectively implement such sounds, graphics, animation, and digital
video (.avi files) very easily.

COMMUNICATION - How would such a scattered staff maintain efficient 
 communication???  Well...I believe you're using something similar to
 read this very note!  E-mail and ftp to central sites would allow for 
 larger groups at some schools to work on assigned sections.

THIS IS A ROUGH SKETCH - Remember, this is just an idea, made to be 
 modified, and ready to be shaped and molded.  I hope that some of you
 out there are creative enough and ambitious enough to be interested.
 If so, write me a note via E-mail.  DO NOT RESPOND VIA USENET!!!
 My addresses are below.

Aaron J. Smith
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Communications and (soon-to-be) Computer Science Double-Major
Undergraduate

ajsmith@nyx.cs.du.edu                    ugotme@aol.com

Re: Electronic Publishing by College Students

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Author: Steve Cunningham
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 06:00

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You talked about starting a CD-ROM student publication, which should be a lot
of fun for yourself and others.  But don't overlook the possibility of an
online publication, which saves you the duplication costs of the CD-ROMs
(yes, I know they're pretty, but they're still $2 - $3 to produce, even if
you do all the file preparations...) and lets people get them from around the
world more quickly than a mailing.  Investigate whether DU could get enough
online storage so you could support anonymous ftp and an e-mail server for
the ~600 MB you'll have, and then rotate the contents of that disk space for
your new editions.

I wish I could tell you exactly the pluses and minuses involved with this kind
of activity, but come back in six months -- ACM SIGGRAPH will be putting out an
online experimental special issue of _Computer Graphics_ next May, and I think
we'll learn a lot from the process.

Have fun, and good luck!

-- Steve Cunningham
   SIGGRAPH director for publications

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