[artinfo] Fwd: [balkans] CfA: PLOTKI, call for online editors

[ALLAN SIEGEL]

>From: Maria Ivancheva 
><<mailto:charismimatic at yahoo.co.uk>charismimatic at yahoo.co.uk>
>Date: 2008. március 28. 15:33:41 GMT+01:00
>Subject: [balkans] CfA: PLOTKI, call for online editors [Deadline: 1.4.2008]
>
>
>*** CALL FOR ONLINE EDITORS ***
>
>The East European magazine PLOTKI is looking for new online editors from
>East European countries. The aim is to enlarge the existing international
>editorial board of the PLOTKI online news, the "monthly updated rumours".
>
>PLOTKI editors contribute to the magazine by organizing and editing their
>own issues and putting them online.
>
>PLOTKI WEBSITE: <http://www.plotki.net>www.plotki.net
>APPLICATIONS: <mailto:application%40plotki.net>application at plotki.net
>DEADLINE: 01.04.2008, please read details below.
>
>PLOTKI is a magazine, an open platform, a network of over 100 authors,
>photographers and graphic designers from Eastern Europe. On our website we
>publish new online issues on a monthly basis. The online magazine is put
>together by an international editorial board, made up of young people from
>Central- and East European countries.
>
>In May 2008, the editorial board will have its next team meeting in the
>Czech Republic. We would like to use this opportunity to invite interested
>people to become online editors of PLOTKI and to actively take part in the
>PLOTKI project. Transport, accommodation and food costs will be covered.
>
>The responsibility of the online editors will be to create around two PLOTKI
>online issues a year (finding a topic, collecting contributions, editing).
>As an online editor you will have all the journalistic freedom you want and
>will get all the support you need from the PLOTKI community. As well as
>editing issues, the work for the next year will also include regular
>contributions and small admin responsibilities.
>
>The aim of the seminar in the Czech Republic is to review the past online
>issues and to introduce participants to website management and other needed
>skills to edit the online-magazine.
>
>Participants are asked to prepare one article and/or photos or illustrations
>or other publishable media on the topic: SOLIDARITY
>
>PLOTKI is a non-commercial project. All PLOTKI authors, photographers and
>graphic designers are volunteers, who dedicated themselves to reporting from
>and about Central and Eastern Europe in an unconventional way. Currently we
>are not able to pay anybody, but we are always able to cover all seminar
>costs and production expenses.
>
>*** your profile ***
>
>- journalistic and/or photographic experience welcome
>- contacts to authors, photographers and illustrator in your country
>- English language skills
>- online skills are not necessarily needed (we 
>will teach you everything at the seminar - a 
>certain affinity to computers is helpful)
>- readiness to attend the seminar in Czech Republic from 1st - 4th of May 2008
>
>*** we offer ***
>
>- a 4 day seminar in the Czech Republic
>- introduction into online editing: PLOTKI 
>Content Management System (CMS),"the making of 
>an online issue of PLOTKI"
>- a platform for creative journalism
>- a broad network of journalists and photographers from Central-Eastern Europe
>
>*** application ***
>
>Please mail your application until 01.04.2008 to 
><mailto:application%40plotki.net>application at plotki.net 
>by
>answering the following questions:
>
>- name, age, country, language skills
>- occupation and/or field of studies
>- experiences with journalism and/or photography
>- motivation why you want to become a PLOTKI online editor
>- and attach your contribution: your article on 
>the topic SOLIDARITY (less then 1.000 words) OR 
>your photo contribution OR your illustration....
>
>Looking forward to your applications!
>
>PLOTKI ONLINE
><mailto:application%40plotki.net>application at plotki.net
>
>***Please circulate widely***
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>PLOTKI is a project from around the bloc.
>PLOTKI spreads rumours.
>PLOTKI investigates our cultural sphere.
>And PLOTKI brings together writers, photographers and graphic artists from
>Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe.
><http://www.plotki.net>www.plotki.net
>