Wireframe - New fortnightly video game magazine in stores now.

Green Gecko wrote:We seem to have upset one of the head honchos at the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

twitter.com/EbenUpton/status/1067466719625707522

Fun fact, if not for the pi foundation we wouldn't have the tweet bot to send the tweet to up set one of the head honchos of the pi foundation

Tafdolphin wrote:
HSH28 wrote:Interesting that the entirety of the first two magazines is available to download on that website for free in PDF form.

Looks like you can sign up to get it emailed to you as well for free so I assume this is something that's going to continue.

https://wireframe.raspberrypi.org/issues

Ok, so this is interesting. They must either be 100% ad funded or using external funds, likely from the Raspberry Pi side of things. Hmm.

Anyway, subscribed.

I have a free (print edition) garment decorator industry magazine that's actually OK, sure it's 50% advertorial but the foundation will get charitable/CSR funding from all kinds of places. Like they'll publish guides and stuff using middleware or about new studios and get a kickback from their advertising budget.

Errkal wrote:
Green Gecko wrote:We seem to have upset one of the head honchos at the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

twitter.com/EbenUpton/status/1067466719625707522

Fun fact, if not for the pi foundation we wouldn't have the tweet bot to send the tweet to up set one of the head honchos of the pi foundation

True, I also wouldn't be able to pirate my retro games and one of my uni mates wouldn't be their creative director. :shifty:

They've done a lot of good. I have two Pis but not really doing anything at the moment. I got a bit ahead of the Pi with Arduino so do more low level stuff, signal processing etc.

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Teach me to be so negative, I suppose.

Green Gecko wrote:We seem to have upset one of the head honchos at the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

twitter.com/EbenUpton/status/1067466719625707522

Edit: Goddamint Knoy foiled again it was actually Errkal who brought this to my attention.

I like how out of the three bits he quotes, two are from the same post (Taf CALLED OUT). Also like how he's immediately tagged a bunch of his mates in it in a "oooh look what I've found" kind of way.

I genuinely forget this place is completely open and public and now I feel rubbish about poopooing something people have obviously poured a lot of effort into. I still think it's an...odd market to be entering at this stage but still, I'm probably completely wrong.

Give it more like 9 months.

Well they seem to be doing OK on the magazines portfolio front, it's not like dipping toes in the water, it's already a proven model they're simply shifting verticals into the maker/gamer crossover which I think could work.. I'd be interested anyway!

The Press part seems to be an arm of the rest of the organisation that has to try different things.

I think a magazine can exist OK if the web part is covered or subsidised by other business.. A corporation established originally in the print field is going to find that difficult (or totally buggers it up like closing all your forums), this isn't the case with the RP foundation... It's deeply engrained with the community with engagement at a high level, and broadening into other territories, and you can still pick-up/cross-sell digital formats if for whatever reason people don't want or move away from the print edition.

People reading Future, emap, Imagine or whatever magazines weren't fans of the organisation, they were just a faceless publisher. They also weren't charitable in any way and had absolutely zero CSR credentials.

You have to be very clever to run a not-for-profit enterprise so I'm sure they know what they're doing!

Maybe this is something that was lost through the ages i.e. printing code in the early Spectrum magazines? Personally I find development chronicles a bit dry to read so it'll be interesting to see exactly what the balance is.

I actually bought the second issue yesterday and so far it's pretty decent. Especially if it's fortnightly. Looking forward to more of it.

Gemini73 · Last edited by Gemini73 on Tue Nov 27, 2018 10:14 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Well you have to admire their optimism.

Tafdolphin wrote:I genuinely forget this place is completely open and public and now I feel rubbish about poopooing something people have obviously poured a lot of effort into. I still think it's an...odd market to be entering at this stage but still, I'm probably completely wrong.

Give it more like 9 months.

Haha it helps that all new threads get tweeted automatically a couple of times after creation too

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