# Announcing a new Ruby journal **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 2, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-a-new-ruby-journal/164580 "2009-04-02T19:04:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-a-new-ruby-journal/164580/1 "2009-04-02T19:04:49Z")
2 April 2009 My name is Martin S… I am pleased to announce three new publications dedicated to web developers. Red: The Journal of Ruby Development Facade: The Journal of Front-end Development Tabula: The Journal of Open Source Database Development The three publications obviously have a great number of topics in common between then, and much that is unique. Where ever possible, readers will benefit from the synergies and the novelties. These journals are to be published differently than other periodicals: 1. Each journal is published as frequently as possible so material is timely and accessible. 2. The price for each journal can therefore vary, depending on the scope and size of an issue. 3. You will be able to purchase individual articles or an entire issue of each journal. 4. Each author earns a royalty for the sale or his or her individual article and the sale of an entire issue in which his or her article appears. 5. Each author earns a royalty from the advertising bundled in each article and issue. 6. A portion of all revenue garnered will be awarded as grants to further the documentation of open source technologies. 7. To guarantee the highest quality technical material, peer technical reviewers also earn a royalty on publications sold. 8. The publications will be available in PDF form and in print-on- demand form. (Pricing is to be determined.) 9. Each author retains copyright in his or her work, but grants exclusive, worldwide, first serial rights to the publication for a short period of time. Each contributing author will receive an annual subscription to the journal he or she contributes to. 10. Subscribers will have early access to all articles in development. A formal author letter spelling out terms will be available shortly but will earnestly reflect the principles above to encourage expert contributions. Each journal will also have its own web site in the near future. Effective immediately, I would like to call for contributors. If you are working in Rails, Ruby, MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, CSS, ORMs, EC2, S3, CloudFront, provisioning, scaling, and high- availability, among others, and have an interesting technique, plugin, technology, or insight, please contact me with a proposal. I’ll leave the proposal format informal for now, but please specify why your software or approach is novel and would be of interest to your community and peers. Here are some story ideas to consider: Rails 2.3 novelties; Chef; Cucumber; Sass and HAML; MariaDB; embedded search engines; jQuery; scaling Rails; performance optimizations; sharding; CSS frameworks; Ruby 1.9; BDD; Ruby Cocoa; PostgreSQL goodies; deployment and monitoring; best practices; gems; plugins; and more. You can also feel free to send community events, such as conferences, meet-ups, lectures, brigades, startup weekends, and hack fests. Each journal will contain community pages so readers can connect to one another. Classified and commercial advertisements are also accepted. You can advertise your own or your company’s services. Please contact me for rates. About me: From 2002-2007, I was the Editor-in-Chief of Linux Magazine and am currently that publication’s web development columnist. I am a regular contributor to IBM developerWorks’s Linux and Open Source Zones, and also write that site’s monthly “Speaking Unix” column. I also contribute to Linux Pro Magazine and to Amazon’s Web Services Developer Center. I am currently a freelance Rails developer and author – and now publisher of these journals. I live in Raleigh, NC. I am an avid comic reader, art collector, foodie, and music fan. I have two teens, two dogs, and two cats. I look forward to your questions and proposals. You can reach me via email, phone, Twitter, and IM. Email: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid GTalk: martin.streicher iChat and Yahoo: supergiantrobot Skype: martin.s.streicher Phone: 919.741.4182 Twitter: martinstreicher web: [http://www.linkedin.com/in/mstreicher](http://www.linkedin.com/in/mstreicher) My thanks for your consideration. – Martin S., Principal and Publisher The Pixel, Byte, and Comma Company Raleigh, NC ---
**Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 7:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-a-new-ruby-journal/164580/2 "2009-04-02T19:45:47Z")
Hi Martin, Sounds good. I’m interested: - Which other people or companies are joining you in your efforts? You mention ads, subscriptions and publication rights and I’m wondering which entity will be dealing with that. - Will there be an editorial board performing the reviews? - Who will be the readers? What is the intended audience, level and reach? Thanks! – Roderick van Domburg [http://www.nedforce.com](http://www.nedforce.com) ---
**Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 5:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-a-new-ruby-journal/164580/3 "2009-04-03T05:00:11Z")
Please, please correct me if I’m wrong, but weren’t you associated with a previous Ruby journal effort that seemed to have an issue with taking people’s subscription money and then not actually providing anything to them at all? The last I heard (which, admittedly, was some time ago) there was no resolution for many of those people. –Jeremy On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Martin S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > timely and accessible. > > demand form. (Pricing is to be determined.) > but will earnestly reflect the principles above to encourage expert > software or approach is novel and would be of interest to your > journal will contain community pages so readers can connect to one > Zones, and also write that site’s monthly “Speaking Unix” column. I > Email: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > Martin S., Principal and Publisher > The Pixel, Byte, and Comma Company > Raleigh, NC > > > – [http://jeremymcanally.com/](http://jeremymcanally.com/) [http://entp.com/](http://entp.com/) > **[Omg GIFs | GIFDB.com](https://gifdb.com/omg)** > > Download Omg GIFs for Free on GifDB. More than 56 Omg Animated GIFs to download. My books: > **[Ruby in Practice](https://www.manning.com/books/ruby-in-practice)** > > Like Ruby itself, Ruby in Practice will make you more productive. The book shows you practical techniques and strategies for small projects and large-scale environments. A cookbook-style reference, it gives you concrete examples of systems... [http://humblelittlerubybook.com/](http://humblelittlerubybook.com/) (FREE!) ---
**Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-a-new-ruby-journal/164580/4 "2009-04-03T16:53:54Z")
Jeremy: I did try to launch a journal before, yes. And I made every attempt to return all monies. If anyone is still owed money, I will return it. There were some people I could not reach via email after the fact to return their funds. PayPal still has the records of payment, so I can verify payment and whether the person was made whole or not. Please contact me at removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid to reconcile any issues. ---
**Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-a-new-ruby-journal/164580/5 "2009-04-03T19:44:24Z")
Jeremy, Martin; On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 07:52 -0700, Martin S. wrote: > issues. > Nicely handled on both parts. Best regards, Bill ---
**Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 11:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-a-new-ruby-journal/164580/6 "2009-04-03T23:14:05Z")
I went back to my records. These folks are owed $60 each. Hopefully, each person continues to read this forum; or, perhaps a friend or coworker will recognize one of the names and ask the individual to contact me. I can try some googling, too. David Alexander Muness Alrubaie Mark Andrews Peter Corrigan Douglas Fort Michael Flynn Jean H. Henning Jansen Daniel Jebaraj Shintaru Kakautani Christian Kebekus Daniel Kohn Alexander Lang Takahiro Maebashi Aidy Rutter Slipserve, LLC Mark West Masaki Yatsu Martin ---
**Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-a-new-ruby-journal/164580/7 "2009-04-03T16:46:52Z")
I am just getting started and hope to draw in a lot of smart, expert contributors. Print on-demand will be handled by an online service such as MagCloud. Ads will be managed internally, as well subscriptions, at least at first. There will be a suite of technical reviewers to vet content. Again, the technical reviewers share revenue as well. The audience is computing professionals who earn a living working with these technologies. The audience is mid- to senior- developers, although some of those may be new to certain technologies, so we can introduce technology at a ramped-up pace. Reach is international. On Apr 2, 1:45 pm, Roderick van Domburg \ **Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-a-new-ruby-journal/164580/8 "2009-04-05T01:09:21Z") Michael Flynn got in touch and was issued a refund.