Full Circle – the Ubuntu Community Magazine are proud to announce our fourth issue. It contains: * Edubuntu – What’s in it for the kids? * How-To : Hosting Code on LaunchPad, Learning Scribus part 4 and Keep your kids safe in Ubuntu. * Preview of Miro 0.9.8. * Interview with Ubuntu Developer Colin Watson. * Letters, Q&A, MyDesktop, MyPC, Top5 and more! Get it while it’s hot! English language only at the moment, translations on the way…
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Wolfger
on Aug 30th, 2007
@ 7:48 pm:
Thanks for reformatting it to fit a computer screen!
Marat
on Aug 31st, 2007
@ 7:35 am:
HI, i love to read FL!
Its just great and very interesting.!!!
my wish for next time: little workshop about terminal with some examples
Marat from germany
David Thomas
on Aug 31st, 2007
@ 7:36 am:
Just wanted to say thank you for all the hard work everyone does on full circle. It’s very polished and I plan to have several issues laying around during the Software Freedom Day event were having in New Mexico on Sept 15th. Keep up the good work.
tunpishuang
on Aug 31st, 2007
@ 10:37 am:
very good magazine ..i like it
bob katt
on Aug 31st, 2007
@ 8:51 pm:
Is this magazine on sale just in the USA, or in the UK, or in Europe? I’m asking cos I haven’t seen it in any stores here (UK) but as a Feisty user (Grrr!!) I’d like to check it out
Ronnie: no it’s not for sale in any country. It’s a free magazine available through PDF download
Sunny Yadav
on Aug 31st, 2007
@ 10:09 pm:
Excellent magazine. But I guess its number of pages should be increased.And tend to make it more commercialize. I understand it might require lots of hard work. But I believe advertisement space can be sold. initially there might not be too many advertisers but gradually mass will built up. this is only 4 th edition but i am sure it will grow much better than any other commercial computer magazine.
Ronnie: you want me to add more pages to just fill them with advertisements? Not gonna happen. If the magazine was to go to print then i’d see your point…
rene wiersma
on Sep 1st, 2007
@ 4:22 am:
Thanks. Very good. Go on.
Marcus
on Sep 1st, 2007
@ 4:20 pm:
Thank you all so much for providing this excellent resource! I will make use of them in my next ubuntu presentations… Keep up the great work!
Re: more pages/ads… Hm, I understand your reaction but I do not think the idea is so bad to not consider it at all. If you do not ned/want money to keep fullcircle running, then you could give the money to projects in need — or set up a system where readers can vote on projects to support. I think this would be very useful to the community and a senseful allocation of financial resources (e.g., think of a Dell ad about an ubuntu-preinstalled box). Anyway, think about it.
Wilfredo S.
on Sep 1st, 2007
@ 7:19 pm:
Great magazine. AND it’s free! What more could I ask for?
Jon
on Sep 2nd, 2007
@ 4:10 am:
Well done on another issue and the screen formatted page layout works really well. I think the page count is just right and it would be a shame to litter it with advertisements. However, I don’t think anyone would criticise the occasional sponsored article if it was relevant to the readership and made clear that it was sponsored. Although discrete ads on your web site could achieve the same income and not spoil the publication. We all appreciate that bandwidth can be costly.
Mladen Đurić
on Sep 2nd, 2007
@ 7:35 am:
Ronnie, don’t be so hard on Sunny, better understand him: he wants more content and does not mind to see ads if that is going to give him (us) more content. It is very important for Ubuntu and community that Dell is giving Ubuntu as an alternative to Windows. It is the first major company that directly supports not only some generic Linux but Ubuntu specifically. Maybe Dell or some other company (involved with Ubuntu or not) see some interest and is willing to pay. That will attract others to follow and magazine could only benefit as there could be some buck or two for authors and others at FullCircle.
After all, we all need new box (computer) from time to time and that is definitely not free.
cbhl
on Sep 2nd, 2007
@ 5:09 pm:
@Mladen: The problem is, how would whatever money that went to the people at FullCircle get distributed? Where would money be collected? Who would divide it up? How would they deal with international tax laws, payment systems, currency conversion, etc.? (Besides, the ads would probably have to fall under the same license as the magazine, which has its own implications…) The overhead could negate any possible benefits, unless somebody big comes up and decides to “buy” the whole thing (or, more specifically, all the people behind it).
And I hear of people running *buntu on 500 MHz x86 miniature fanless PC/devices… so I’m not sure about the new box argument…
Cliff Zhou
on Sep 2nd, 2007
@ 10:46 pm:
Waiting for Chinese version….
Sanni
on Sep 3rd, 2007
@ 12:49 am:
Thanks for great magazine! Good work!
derred
on Sep 3rd, 2007
@ 1:36 am:
is there a wide screen version?
munsur
on Sep 3rd, 2007
@ 1:55 am:
attract others to follow and magazine
munsur
on Sep 3rd, 2007
@ 1:56 am:
Well done on another issue and the screen formatted page layout works really well. I think the page count is just right and it would be a shame to litter it with advertisements. However, I don’t think anyone would criticise the occasional sponsored article if it was relevant to the readership and made clear that it was sponsored. Although discrete ads on your web site could achieve the same income and not spoil the publication. We all appreciate that bandwidth can be costly.
Fr33d0m
on Sep 3rd, 2007
@ 8:25 am:
When are you going to get the view in browser links on these pages?
Rob: They should already be there – just click on one. It depends on your PDF reader, too.
Michael Moore
on Sep 3rd, 2007
@ 10:15 am:
Great issue!
One more angle on the ads.
I feel that Ubuntu and Linux related advertising would be a service to us readers, if it was done correctly (in moderation, appropriate products, ad placement, etc.). I don’t have the time or energy to go chasing after every company that produces Ubuntu-friendly products, but appropriate advertising could help me keep on top of what’s available.
Besides, you’ve probably got hosting costs and you’d probably work more efficiently with a bigger nicer monitor, right?
Ashley
on Sep 3rd, 2007
@ 9:51 pm:
This is a great magazine. Its nice and compact.
Those of you looking for commercial type content should check out o3 magazine. It is free and available in PDF as well (http://www.o3magazine.com)
There are a couple of problems though:
a) PDF links do not work in Preview (MacOS X)
b) You need to export the PDF in Scribus as single page when its formated for the screen, otherwise PDF viewers will display two pages at half-size.
This is a great little magazine though!
Abdul Rahim
on Sep 4th, 2007
@ 7:51 am:
Thanks for another good issue of Full Circle. Will read it at one go all the way!!!!
Javier
on Sep 5th, 2007
@ 8:13 pm:
An excellent publication, Thanks for publish my desktop. Regards from Mexico!!
tonhou
on Sep 6th, 2007
@ 8:00 pm:
Its probably been asked before, but is there a special way to print out the magazine?
Thanks
Rob: There isn’t a specific way to print out the magazine – it’s up to you! Just remember, if you have a different paper size, choose fit to page.
jk
on Sep 9th, 2007
@ 8:07 am:
Thank you for your share
Sunny Yadav
on Sep 10th, 2007
@ 4:20 pm:
It looks like, I didnt explain clearly about my intention of increasing the magazine page. I dont know how the management of this magazine works. But on searching on internet, I found full circle to be only magazine devoted about the information on ubuntu. I don’t know about ambitions or plans of people working on this magazine. But I would really like this magazine to grow as it is targeted toward ubuntu. My intention of suggesting increasing page and selling space for advetisement was to make it complete ubuntu magazine same as PC world or MAC world. Ubuntu is moving from geeks world to novice people’s world and I believe information is the key to help this transition to happen as much faster pace and magazine is one of the important communication method.
Unless, you dont want to be just in electronic media and wants to make it low profile magazine then its fine the way it is. Placing advertisement will not only give us more information about the product relevent to linux but also helps you to keep away from financial trouble. Probably you are not an organization, so you dont know how to distribute money or resources. But I guess, that money can be used to move full circle from electronic media to hard copy magazine. Its kind of slow and gradual process rather than one night transformation. Microsoft started their business in a small garadge and now become world’s richest software company. I dont mean full circle be a billion dollar company but it can be atleast one decent magazine to be on our magazine shelf. But it all depends on ambition and plan to dream big.
Ronnie: I know what you mean Sunny but think about it this way: if it costs $1 to get an issue printed then with 30,000 downloads, we’d need $30,000 per month! And that doesn’t include shipping costs, so make that another $30,000. Also to get your magazine in print might take 3 or 4 weeks through the post, would you really want to wait that long? So now we need about $60,000 per month, what happens if donations and ads only get us $50,000? Who pays the other $10,000? And finally, it’d take a ginormous amount of planning and effort to get the magazine distributed worldwide! Who wants to volunteers to sit and label 30,000 magazines and haul them to the post office? Not me!
I would LOVE full circle to be in print, it’d be a dream come true for me, but unless someone can guarantee us about $100,000 per month I can’t see it happening i’m afraid to say but, if anyone has any brain waves… i’m all ears!
twen
on Sep 19th, 2007
@ 3:58 am:
Nice new format ! why not a standard A4 edition also ? European are not using the american page format
Thanks, keep up the good work !
Proximus
on Sep 21st, 2007
@ 6:09 am:
Where is in Spanish¿¿ thanks
Roc100
on Sep 23rd, 2007
@ 5:51 am:
The Chinese version will be released by Chinese team.
Sabrina
on Sep 26th, 2007
@ 3:46 am:
Quote
(1Wolfger: Thanks for reformatting it to fit a computer screen!)
Yes thanks “Full Circle Team”, very good idea!
I love your magazine!!!
paolettopn
on Sep 28th, 2007
@ 9:36 am:
The Italian version was released yesterday, by Italian team.
All the best,
Paolo
paolettopn
on Sep 28th, 2007
@ 10:17 am:
Hi guys,
today I have see the download page of issue #2 and #3. The italian issue image are not present.
My cheef team was sent the pdf and sla file to ronnie, and the files are present to download, but the issue’s images are not present on web?
Why not?
All the best,
Paolo
JimHu
on Sep 29th, 2007
@ 5:32 am:
The Chinese Version has been released by Chinese Translation Team.
All the best,
JimHu
didi
on Oct 19th, 2007
@ 7:56 am:
What could i say? Thank you for the Chinese issue~!
The reader from China
Ronnie: I can’t take the credit for the Chinese edition, that honour goes to JimHu and his team
Wu Yin
on Oct 22nd, 2007
@ 11:19 pm:
Chinese is great!!!!