For 2010 we (the magazine team on the Software Development Network, Dutch developer user group) decided that it would be a good thing to bring the pedal to the floor and speed up with our magazine.
In previous years we provided four magazines distributed to our user group member delivered by mail (handed over by the mailman). Four magazines in a year will bring only one magazine in about 13 weeks. For the world we live in we thought this to be a tad too slow.
These days we are seeing a burst in eReader-deliveries all over the place, gadgets of all kinds and we decided this to be a good time to double our magazine count per year but to distribute fifty percent of the magazine count as digital magazine where possible optimized for eReader devices. That all sounds easier than it is as we are now experiencing. We need more input from our authors, advertisements but most of all we had to double our magazine tasks such as collecting and editing texts, working on the layout, verify the content etc.
One of the goals we have planned for our new setup is to change our layout a little bit and provide space for small editorial announcements to be supplied by whoever wants to announce something related to Software Development. Now that we deliver eight magazines a year these small announcements bring more up to date relevance to the magazine but for that to work we need your assistance.
If you have news on your software products, new releases, feature enhancements, hardware reviews related to software development, book releases (maybe you want -us- to review your books, soft- or hardware), maybe you want to share your research results from your software labs, announce your whitepapers, event, code projects, architect info ... send us your information and we'll try to fit it in our magazine!
Whenever you think you fit in this description (or you want to provide larger articles or want to discuss sponsored editorials-larger articles discussing products allowing to emphasizing on your product/business) just contact me on my contact page: http://blogs.officezealot.com/maarten/contact.aspx and one of our magazine members will contact you to work things out.
Oh, one more thing ... we accept content in two languages: Dutch and English. Being a Dutch magazine of course we prefer the text to be in Dutch but we understand not everybody is able to provide the text in Dutch leaving the other option to provide an English text.