[scribus-dev] wiki: made with scribus / success stories

[Gregory Pittman]

On 08/04/2011 06:17 PM, Ondřej Němeček wrote:
> Here in Czech was Scribus nicely mentioned
> at professional web
>
> http://www.grafika.cz/serial232.html
>
> and there are some also activities to promote Scribus
>
> http://www.scribus.cz/
>
> But I know knobody from prefesional designers or
> typographers who cooperates with scribus developers.
>

I think that there is a different perspective that professional DTP 
workers have about the software that they use. They don't expect to 
interact with the developers; if anything they expect the developers to 
come to them, and probably if they ever have tried to contact some 
commercial software company it was a disappointing, wasted effort.

Perhaps there might be an effort made to showcase Scribus at whatever 
meetings/conventions that these people might attend or in some way be 
aware of, but we're rather outside of that whole world. Certainly we 
know something about the various open source venues, but there isn't 
necessarily a reason to believe that this is the only "market" for open 
source software.

One of the pockets of Scribus use we can be aware of is that of those 
out there making newletters, for some local community, some parish or 
other religious organization. These people are looking for something 
beyond Word as a means to create a nicely composed output, which might 
be printed by some commercial operation or even on their own printers.

Another is the (I think) sizable number of people who are in some way 
self-publishers, either doing the whole project by themselves, or at 
least putting together a PDF they can take to some commercial operation 
that caters to small output books, booklets, magazines or whatever.

A third category encompasses the governmental organizations who must 
produce information for the public in countries where there is an 
abiding interest in open source (Brazil stands out in this regard).

These are the people who have found us and who will continue to find us, 
but the question is, how do we show up on the radar screens of a wider 
audience? How do we find those who might with a little encouragement be 
able to give back in various ways, potentially monetary, but more 
importantly with various resources that help the quality and notoriety 
of Scribus. Just showing that this is a place where feedback is listened 
to and reacted upon might be a revelation to some.

Greg