[scribus] workflow for a team

[ZASKE Martin]

Dear all,

we are working with about ten young people in training. We are producing
a semi-regular 20 page magazine in Africa. See success stories 2012 for
more context.


Since our young people are advancing, we soon want them to be in charge
of entire pages (articles). We are working under OpenSuse Linux. And I
want each user to only work under his own login (they have sometimes
accidentally deleted other people's work...).

I am looking for ideas for a good workflow. We do not have a very strict
template (apart from margins and some guidelines), and the magazine is
still developing. I want to give freedom for creativity and want
articles to look unique.

I want each team member - if possible - to prepare one or two pages in
his user account. And the master layouter would them assemble the final
magazine and get the PDF ready for printing. People are working on
different computers, depending on availability. Each is only coming to
the office for a few hours per week. But we got a network and a nice
NAS, so getting access to files is not the main problem.

We are working with about ten layers for text, illustrations,
photo-captions, etc. So copy and paste is not impossible but not easy (I
found out that using the Outline-window, I can at least select and copy
across layers, but pasting would still dump everything into one layer only).
	I have tried Import Pages and that looks promising but results are
still mildly loose. I guess we need a more controlled template
concerning baseline-etc if the import shall present an exact "clone" of
the work done elsewhere.


I got most of the online and paper documentation available to me. So
here I am mainly hoping for some pointers from people who got actual
experience with teamwork under Linux. If you tell me that processes and
tools work well for your team, I will read up on those and try here.


Thank you all,

Martin