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April 3, 2024
Zooming in on the magazine
– Do we have right interface visible to writers when we solicit
– Runway; should we be ready to launch; make sure we don’t promise more than we can deliver timing of elements line up
– Mark brought in someone who does front-end design; has given her admin access; have someone in place;
- – This is question for mark
– M: How much runway for contributors? // Editorial// Minimally– end of May for submissions?
-A: 2-4 pieces every few months; 1 or 2 every three months for example? If you give people a month to write
-Word limits could be another way of managing the amount of work–
- – 1500 words ish?
– 1-2k; SCA fieldsites posts are generally 1-2k
- -issues that come out together, or release one a week;
-J: Are we all really interested in this?
-M Shortform things to sort of reward/ bring grad students in. Not a journal; there’s a lot of stuff out there already; if it’s easy to do on our end, easy to process, people see things and want to write something– that makes sense; would keep us on our feet and we’d be more flexible. But a more consistent roll out, might be more difficult.
- -Invitations to contribute on a seasonal basis and roll them out as they come
– Should there be a theme? If we are solliciting for the spring should there be a theme, or just an open call.
– Document for themes?
- -Alaa—groups can also be solicited/ highlighted/ formed after the groups
- -Munira- ecologies of militarism possibility
– More discussion on range of word limit; maybe 750-1250 (alaa); 1-1500
– ecologies of militarism
– Sapiens has a nice pitch form
- (WP forms; on the back end; could set it up there)
– Anand: Respecting the community and saying we expect to have people in EDC who can speak to this
-J: Project forum sprint; don’t want to overestimate what an open call will bring; want to give an idea of what it looks like before we “open”
-M: Editorial pull, how much do we want to expect from ourselves re: curating something
-A: I think actual editing with feedback is important, esp for developing scholars.
– M: recoginition that there is going to be some labor involved in that; probably lots of folks that would want to publish to this stuff
-An: A lot of ac-adjacent members who would want to write things
- – Masimo Paolini; not an academic but is interested in conversations