[scribus] Newspaper workflow

[Gregory Pittman]

On 08/23/2012 02:19 AM, Stefan wrote:
> Hi Javier,
> 
> 2012/8/22 Javier García Alfaro <javiergalfaro at gmail.com>:
>> Hi all, am editor / designer of a monthly newspaper [1] which recently began
> 
> I take at the look of your first paper linked here
> http://periodicoeleslabon.wordpress.com/
> it seems like a 24 page magazine in tabloid format (a little larger
> than A4-Format).
> 
> Same as we are doing with http://kompass.im/kompass-archiv/ This is a
> 24-page newsprint magazine for pirate party in germany.
> The Issues Kompass 3.2011 Killerspiele and Kompass 2.2011 Arabellion
> are produced with Scribus, Later ones with Adobe InDesign.
> 
> Within Scribus there is no support for any kind of workflow. You will
> need other tools to manage page planning and authors.
> 
> What we use for that:
> 
> - for page planning: a standard wiki with special wiki templates. It
> lives at http://wiki.piratenzeitung.de
> See the planning page for our August issue here:
> http://wiki.piratenzeitung.de/?title=Kompass:2012.3
> our layout guy uoploads his pdf previews to the wiki server.
> 
> - for text editing: some pirate pads, that is a webbased text editor
> for collaborative editing. We have a so-called "team-pad" at
> http://artikelschmiede.piratenpad.de . We make the text good there. If
> a text ist finished in the pad, we copy it into a corresponding page
> in our wiki, our layout guy fetches it from there.
> 
> - we have a weekly teleconference via mumble software. Cause we are
> not in one city, but all across germany.
> 
> Feel free to ask more questions.
> 

Thanks, Stefan.

This suggests to me two things. Perhaps we need some pages on the wiki
that give some advice about the production of magazines and newspapers,
that others can use as a resource.

Secondly, are there features which Scribus might add for the particular
needs of those making periodicals?

Greg