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. :-) (Good questions) Kp On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:47:34PM +0100, Conor O' Kane wrote:
Sorry if this has been raised, but only going through the archives now and haven't seen it..
Why have a book? If it's going to cost �X00 and involve a lot of wrangling, is there anything more worthy of that money, time, and effort?
I'm just wondering.. people have jumped on the idea of the book without really anyone setting out a case for it?
Like someone else said, maybe it could be a magazine or something smaller instead? Or maybe a website like RedbrickAt10.com (or something, I'm not some domain name thinking up guy :o)) since we have the space and so many talented web design people and the cost would be minimal to register the domain.
Don't mean to throw cold water on the idea but just wanted to play devil's advocate especially when it's an idea that could so easily not work out that well (good intentions and all that)
Peace, C
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