Creating an open educational resource about Scribus

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luizag.design

Hello, this is my first time posting here :D
Some context: I'm a designer student from Brazil making my final paper on editorial design and use of free/libre software, and I'm making an OER for other students and non designers. The idea is that after the end of this you will have created a small booklet using Scribus.

I'm also here to ask the Scribus community what tools and topics you think would be necessary to include, considering it's for very beginners who often don't have experience with other DTP software.

So far I've ordered it like this:
- Basics of editorial design (concepts, design layouts, sketches, starting a small project)
  Scribus:
- Download
- Settings, creating a new document, menus
- Creating a grid
- Main tools (Text, image, shapes)
- Properties menu
- Paragraph styles
- Adding images
- Master pages
- Color palletes
- More advanced stuff: changing the shape of text and image frames, text on curve, image effects
- Layers
- Exporting for printing

Any ideas and suggestions?
I'd like to hear other experiences too! How was it like to learn Scribus and what helped
Thanks and I hope I can contribute to Scribus somehow!

a.l.e

Hi!

Step by step, I'm working on the translation to English and update to the current Scribus of Cédric Gémy's "Initiation à Scribus".

https://github.com/aoloe/scribus-book-starting-with

Here you can download a draft Epub:

https://github.com/aoloe/scribus-book-starting-with/releases/tag/0.0.1

I wonder if you effort could be integrated with it.

I like "Initiation à Scribus" because of its short chapters and I think that once it's again fit for being published it might be not too much effort to keep it up to date and update with the Scribus development.

The book currently has an "Hands on" chapter, but I also like your idea of holding the user's hand during the reading the book and having a tasks that evolves steps by steps until, at the end of the book, there is a document that is ready to be printed.