Magazine

Background

• http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/4128
• http://www.slideshare.net/guest1d9a404a/mozilla-magazine-june-2009
• http://www.slideshare.net/MarcoCasteleijn/mozillamagazine
• Production [Idea phase]
• Mozillamagazine.com (website under construction) [1]

People

• Marco Casteleijn (Project lead, Creative Director)
• Andre Juffer (Entrepreneur & Software engineer)
• Paul Booker (Drupal Developer | Ubuntu / Slicehost administrator) (Sponsored by Ian Hayward)
• Jamey Boje (Creative input)
• Ian Hayward (Entrepreneur & Mozilla sponsor)
• Bogomil Shopov
• Robin Monks (Former SFX 1.0 admin, current Drupal developer and technical writer)
• Jeremy Glassenberg

People Needed

• Moderators
• Editor in Chief
• Editor(s) {Social Impact}
• Editor(s) {Personification and New Tools}
• Editor(s) {Reviews of Available Mozilla Tools}
• Editors(s) {Commercial involvment}
• Editors(s) {Shorts}
• Internal Authors

• Suggested Peer reviewers (for each section; please add you name if you are available)
• External Authors (to be Peer reviewed)

The Magazine

• Consists of Content
• Content is Editorial (with help from Internal Authors) or from Peer Reviewed Authors
• Content has different forms [Paul: What are the differences?]

• Different roles can be identified:
  

1. Administrators {they take care of the site}
2. Moderators {they moderate comments/subscribers}
3. Editors {they take care of how Content is displayed} (a)
   
4. Authors {they submit Content} (b)
   
5. Subscribers {registered users with something to say (comments)}(c)

Roles a+b+c can be combined.

• There is input and output:

input:

1. - Content submitted by Authors (also in an editorial role)
2. - Automated list of newly submitted titles ("the buzz")
3. - Automated list of Mozilla related news
4. - Automated list of top 10 lists (highest rated by votes; most read; linked to)
5. - Automated list of comments to comments (optional and are comments to microblogged comments welcome?)

output:

1. - Frontpage (per Issue); table of content
2. - Articles (Editorial and per subsection Peer Reviewed) as HTML and as downloadable PDFs
3. - Comments (also Disqus module and microblogged (if user chooses so)
4. - Submitted as a whole to Magcloud (example)
5. - DOI number
6. - Abstracts to external publisher?
   

Editorial Sections

• In this Issue
• News and Views
• Opinion and Comment (correspondence; Commentary; Book Reviews)
• Feature
• Jobs/Adds?

Peer Review Sections

• Social Impact: Social impact. The Internet is a social integral part of modern daily life. The authors may comment on (review), or show in original work (research), these aspects in relation to education, communication, collaboration, business, entertainment and society as a whole.

• My Internet: Personalization and New Tools. The Internet is used by individuals. Fundamental rights such as privacy, security, personalization of Internet tools, transparency, and data traffic are topics to be discussed from an original (research) standpoint. New software tools may also fit this scope.

• Review Mozilla Reviews of available Mozilla Tools. Critical reviews of tools made available by members in the Mozilla landscape, especially in relation to other compatible tools will give valuable feedback in relation to Mozilla’s mission statement(s).

• Synonyms: Commercial involvement. Companies are hereby invited to give their view, research and involvement in the development of the Internet. The authors may not have to agree with the Mozilla Manifesto, a healthy dialogue between different approaches may give new insights in the metrics of the Internet.

• Mixed Short: Shorts. No not the pants! We mean very short original opinions which fit into the mission statement of the magazine in the form of a 1-2 frame comic, original artwork, letters, photo’s (with caption), videos/cartoon (max. 10 sec, for Internet publishing only), or code (keep it short and simple).
  

These items need a more "hip" name for the magazine (y/n)

Processes

• Content Life Time:
  
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• Author Content Upload:
  
  

1. Checklist: In this page the author is asked if the Author checked the following aspects (a more clarified explenation will be given per item):
   - Do you have all email addresses of all co-authors?
   - Have you read the detailed instructions for Authors?
   - Have you prepared a Cover Letter including a suggestion for 3 Peer Reviewers?
   - Do you have all the Manuscript files in acceptable format?
   - Are you one of the Authors of the article (if not you cannot submit)?
   - Do you agree with the conditions of submission and the Mozillamagazine copyright and licence   agreement?
   
2. The contact details of the Authors are entered. Returning Authors can log-in; new users will fill out a form. A registered Authors gets automatically a log-in as subscriber or adds the role as Author to its Subscriber's role.
   
3. Here the Author will create a profile for his story (Manuscript details) by adding the following:
   - Choose a subject area.
   - Add 5 keywords (tags).
   - Choose type of article (Commentary, Original (Research), Review, Graphical, Video).
   - Add Title (with max words)
   - Add Abstract (with max words)
   - Choose amount of Authors
   - Number of Figures
   - Number of Additional files (Supplementary Material)
   
4. Cover letter and details:
   - Please paste or type in your cover letter explaining why we should publish your manuscript (alternatively upload a document).
   - Suggest up to 5 (min 3) Peer Reviewers (Name; email address, affiliation)
   - Exclude up to 5 (optional) Peer Reviewers (Name; email address, affiliation), particularly if they are direct competitors.
5. Author details (with the possibility to add/remove Authors)
   - Add Name; email address; affiliation
   - Choose contacting Author
6. Upload (with the option to remove them before confirming)
   - Main article
   - Figures
   - Additional Files
7. Done
   - Provides an overview of forms filled and names of uploaded documents and an "ok I really Done" button to finalize the process
   

• Peer Reviewing:
  
  

1. Checklist: In this page the Reviewer is asked if the Reviewer checked the following aspects (a more clarified explenation will be given per item):
   - Is this really you?
   - Have you read the detailed instructions for Reviewers?
   - Do you agree with the conditions of Reviewing and the Mozillamagazine copyright and licence agreement?
   
2. Here the Reviewer will see the Manuscipt details as submitted by the Author and can download the file(s) as submitted:
   - The Reviewer is asked if he/she is willing to review the article.
   - The Reviewer is asked if he/she has (to his/her knowledge) the expertise (yes/partially/no) to review this article.
   - If less then 3 Reviewers remain the Author and the Editor(s) are notified, the Author has then to re-enter additional Reviewers.
   
3. The contact details of the Reviewer are entered. Returning Reviewers can log-in; new users will fill out a form. A registered Reviewers gets automatically a log-in as subscriber or adds the role as Author to its Subscriber's role. Reviewers can choose here (or later in their profile) to be anonymous (not the default).
   
4. The Reviewer is asked to make a dicision within 14 days:
   a) to unconditionally accept the manuscript or proposal;
   b) to accept it in the event that its authors improve it in certain ways;
   c) to reject it, but encourage revision and invite resubmission;
   d) to reject it outright.
   - The Reviewer will add a justification for the decision.
   - If the Decision is (a) for all 3-5 Reviewers the Manuscript is opened for the Editor(s) for editing to final publication.
   
5. The Reviewers fills its comments in a field, which after submitting, are emailed to all Author(s).
   
6. The Author(s) opens the notification page, after subsequent long-in/registration, and selects the comments from the (anonymous) Reviewer. Comments can be printed.
   
7. The Author re-submits the corrections (revised manuscript in full) within 30 days.
   
8. The Reviewers who had comments are notified via email and is asked to make a dicision within 7 days:
   a) to unconditionally accept the manuscript or proposal;
   b) to reject it outright.
   - No justification is needed.
   - If the decision is (a) all Reviewers the Manuscript is opened for the Editor(s) for editing to final publication.
   - If the decision is (b) for any Reviewers the Author is notified by the Editor(s) via email and the manuscript is deleted from the database.

• Editing and Publishing:
  
  

1. Checklist: In this page the Edor is asked if the Editor checked the following aspects (a more clarified explenation will be given per item):
   - Is this really you?
   - Are the Reviewers not of the same affiliation as the Author(s)
   - Is the Manuscript missing anything (Review information, Figures, Supplementary material, etc...)?
   - Is the Manuscript rejected? If so: see Rejected Manuscripts Process.
   
2. Here the Editor will see the Create (by using ???) a PDF (Printing Proof) details to be emailed to main Author and can download the file(s) as submitted.
3. The Author opens the Printing Proof page, after subsequent long-in/registration, and downloads the PDF file.
   
4. The Author re-submits the corrections, if needed, (revised manuscript in full) within 7 days.
5. (a) Here the Editor will see the Create (by using ???) a PDF (Final version) details to be emailed to main Author and can download the file(s) as submitted
   (b) Here the Editor (either himself or other Editor(s)) create the HTML (node) file using the final text.
   
6. (a) The PDF is uploaded to the Magazine to be downloaded, eventual other publishing actions are done as well (e.g. Magcloud)
   (b) Related material (e.g. external links, doinumber, social media etc...) is submitted.
   
7. The full version is viewable for the subscribers and readers. We can work with periodical Issues (example Nature Biotechnology) or feed of Articles (example PloS One).
   
8. Either every Issue or every Month articles get archived.
   

Bugs

• Not relevant yet

Status

• Idea phase (sep. 2009)
• URL purchased (thanks Paul!)
• Social media (facebook, twitter, mozillaca, hyves, friendfeed account made)
• Drupal site in basic format is up (sep. 2009)
• Drupal modules: Disqus, Calais, Workflow added (oct. 2009)
• MM-site: working on the menus and texts

Meetings

• www.spreadfirefox.com/node/5161 Some initial marketing aspects will be discussed
• (Daily) Discussions are running on http://www.mozillaca.com, please request a login if needed. You will find a !mozillamagazine group there...
  

Feature requests

• Peer reviewed section for specific content
• http://www.slideshare.net/MarcoCasteleijn/mozillamagazine
• Color scheme and unique clean look (Fonts; graphics)
• Marco needs Drupal knowledge (lJust read the book! ;o)