M3DVQ wrote:You could always do what I do.. Never get around to finishing the project and writing it up?
Well that is one answer to the problem, but if everyone did that the only thing anyone would receive would be the Club Sales 'flyer'!
Most of the time Jeremy is crying out for copy, admittedly he prefers short to mid-length articles but sometimes it's hard to squeeze it down to size when diagrams, sketches and/or photos are included.
Which makes me wonder why has there been this fixed 12-page limit. It is an easy size and with the method with which the newsletter is printed it has to be an integer multiple of four pages. So it would have to be 16 pages for the next size up.
Adding pages to the printed version does add cost, so I can see one reason why there is a 12-page limit. However, a .pdf version is far more flexible, but while many still require the printed version that's the way it'll probably stay.
Klaas Robers wrote:Sometimes I get the feeling that Jeremy, just like Doug, doesn't like articles from not English born, or at least not British...
I don't think that's the case, at least I certainly hope it's not. I think that glancing through the back-issues you'll notice that items come from all over the world in a rough pro-rata proportion to the numbers of members in the countries involved.
The NBTVA is naturally UK-centric as that was where it all started, I can only guess that some 80% or more of members are UK based.
It can be frustrating when issues pass by and your item isn't in it. It does take a bit of effort to pull something together and the reward (for me) is to see it in print. I still get a 'buzz' each time.
Everyone does this as a hobby, nobody gets paid and many devote quite a bit of their own time to it, Jeremy being but one example.
Anyway, this doesn't resolve the issue of where, when and how to publish. I did send an e-mail to Jeremy yesterday regarding this dilemma and await his thoughts on the matter.
Steve A.
P.S. This is going somewhat off-topic...nothing unusual for a thread I start!
P.P.S. Regarding the .pdf version of the newsletter, I was under the impression that this matter was to be raised at last years convention...but I've not seen any reference to it.