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Dear Team

I would agree to enlarge the number of the pages to 40 as we have more articles and I would not cut them.
We can stick to the previous layout but then we would have to stick the articles.
The 40 pages will slightly increase the cost but the idea of having 40 pages is good.
What do you think?

Bests
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Natasha Sardjoska

Magazine Team Coordinator

Erasmus Mundus Association

www.em-a.eu

Hi all,

hope you are fine and ready for Brussels (those of you that will come). Why not 40 pages? This time we had too articles and we had the problems to cut them, so I am sure it's a good idea. We'll work a bit more to best evaluate the articles, but I agree with that.

Federica.

Hi everybody!

I think that if the cost increase is sustainable we can enlarge the pages number without any problem.
Otherwise, let's stick the articles!

Luca

Hi all,

The increase to 40 pages is fine by me. There were much more articles
than last time. I think however we should not do this too lightly to
increase the number of pages in order to keep the quality.

Karel

Hi All,

While I support the increase in the pages, we should not do it based on the fact that we have more articles so as not to jeopardise the quality of the magazine. I still think for a group magazine like ours, 30 pages is ok as we need to think of the cost of postage as well. I am sorry I have been an outlier in the recent exchanges, I got my PC crashed and just getting another one. Have a great week.

Michael

I do not think we should increase the size of the magazine just because we had more artciles last time.

1. We do not know what the topic will be yet;

2. The increase in the amount of articles does not mean the increase of the quality;

3. How higher the expenses will be? What are the expenses now? I see that in the EMAnate Magazine Team report 2008-2009 (page 9, section 8.4) placed on the Magazine page of the EMA website there is a phrase that editing should be more consistent and that "EMA Magazine Team should play a more active role to facilitate this", I think a group of the native speakers should be created if these native speakers will agree, or the Magazine Team could be more involved with editing of the texts. I see in the budget section from the report mentioned above: 1200 euroes were spent on editing of the texts. I guess this money was allocated to the editors in Germany. I wonder if there is any way to reduce this sum of money and still have the editors from the service provider check our texts ensuring that we do some of the editing ourselves. Please correct me if I am wrong in my discussion about the budget. I remember that there was a talk about finding more options for funding, however I thought we could reduce spending first.

4. What is the perception of the current magazine? I know it has not been published yet, however possibly the service provider could have mentioned some information already. What will be the way of evaluating the quality of the issue Conflicts (latest issue)? Will it be in a form of a questionnaire etc.

5. Will it be possible to decide about the amount of pages once we know what the topic of the next issue is, what was the reaction to the current issue, and preferrably when we know how many articles we have.

6. By saving the money on the issues of the magazine (taking care of the editing and not increasing the number of pages), we can possibly allocate more money for the face to face team meetings. As far as I remember the budget for the meetings was cut. This is just a suggestion.

Thank you.

Kostya