All good questions to be asked. I agree mostly with John's answers, i.e. Who's it for - mostly redbrick members, but also an interested public What's it for - (1) commemoration (2) loose documentary of the society
Regards the form that it comes in (book, magazine, website) - I reckon we leave this question for another 2 months (or so), and let the content decide. Get writing on the wiki! Put up photos! Statistics! Articles! Change shit! Once we have the content, then we can decide how best to present it.
Getting a loose idea of prices & practicals is always a good thing tho - if someone wants to phone up book/mag publishers to get loose price lists (as dregin/Bernard suggested), then that'll help us decide. But we shouldn't need it for a little while; let's focus on the content for the moment.
Money: I know we can *definately* get money from SPC, DCU Comms & Mkting, and possibly others like Presidents Office, Computer Apps school. I say this purely out of confidence: but we have leverage with all these people, I know they'd be proud to contribute, and I know we can guilt trip them and exort money from them. Every feeling in my gut says money will not be the problem on this one - content will, so I'd say let's stick with writing some class, funny, interesting, historical, entertaining shit for this yoke first of all. :-)
I agree, there's (almost) no way that CA wouldn't be happy to pitch in, with what Redbrick contributes to them alone, and with what we contribute to the college as a whole, I'd say they'd be proud to stand behind us (we certainly found that was the case when dealing with Techweek details and sponsorship). The SPC were very eager for us to do something "individual" so this is the perfect thing! I'm sure there's be plenty of discussion about the book again, but I like the idea of a magazine :) Michelle -- 'Cause I'm just a little girl you see, But there's a hell of a lot more to me. Don't ever underestimate what I can do, Don't ever tell how I'm meant to be.