waterrocket magazine

[thunderrockets]

is there already a waterrocket magazine ?

[zetez]

No. But - it is great idea! Administrators of this forum: maybe it's time to create first Water Rocket Magazine?

[RaZias]

I think it would be better to use that effort in organizing better the forum.

When someone new comes here and see a lot of topics he just looses himself.

Maybe it would be better to make inside the forum other divisions like:

- Launcher:
- How to build a launcher
- photos and videos
- trouble section
- hoses
- release mechanisms

- Glues section: on-line shops / where to buy

- Fins:
- How to build it
- Fins material
- Templates
- Gluing
- trouble section

- Rocket
- reinforcement
- stability
- gluing
- staging
- trouble section

- Parachutes
- trouble section
- how to make it
- photos and videos
- discussion

This is important because there is a lot of photos from launchers but little "how-to" sections. And that is what a newbie tries to search in the beginning. And that is mixed with everything...

For example a topic about fins is one thing, but one about "how to make fins" is another thing. And that demands some separation.

[WRA2]

I think it would be better to use that effort in organizing better the forum.

When someone new comes here and see a lot of topics he just looses himself.

Maybe it would be better to make inside the forum other divisions like:

- Launcher:
- How to build a launcher
- photos and videos
- trouble section
- hoses
- release mechanisms

- Glues section: on-line shops / where to buy

- Fins:
- How to build it
- Fins material
- Templates
- Gluing
- trouble section

- Rocket
- reinforcement
- stability
- gluing
- staging
- trouble section

- Parachutes
- trouble section
- how to make it
- photos and videos
- discussion

This is important because there is a lot of photos from launchers but little "how-to" sections. And that is what a newbie tries to search in the beginning. And that is mixed with everything...

For example a topic about fins is one thing, but one about "how to make fins" is another thing. And that demands some separation.

Thanks for the suggestions RaZias,

We have tried something similar back in 2007. The problem we faced with such detailed categories was getting people to post to the correct one. Everyone seems to think that their post will get noticed/answered faster if they post it to the first topic listed on the index page. Everything from "how to's" to questions about the competition rules gets posted to the "general rocket discussion" forum (notice how the number of posts decline as you scroll down the page). We then consolidated it to the current groupings to reduce the amount of "scrolling" needed to view the index. We also do have an excellent search function. I'm open to suggestions for more efficient ways to layout the topics and for getting people to post to the correct topic.

[Jelo]

first about the magazine...what to put in it?? there arent than many people into wrocketeering....so il would probably last....what...a month or two? unless people start posting tones of descoveries they made and more competitions takes place...not much to talk about.

now for the forum organizing idea:
personaly, i made my way through it easily and i know most of the posts that are here, and iv joined not to long ago( and iv got a life ) and secondly, as lisa mentioned above, the bottom posts dont get much attention...i know this because my rocket videos get much more coments in general water rocket discutions than in videos and photos, where its actualy supposed to do...

[WRA2]

No. But - it is great idea! Administrators of this forum: maybe it's time to create first Water Rocket Magazine?

Actually an WRA2 newsletter may be in the near future.

What would people like to see in the newsletter.

Do we email it to people? Do we publish it online?

What about content? Would people be winning to write articles to be published in it?

Suggestions welcome

[RaZias]

It should be published on-line, I remember some persons in my country that tried to make a paper magazine about marriages suites and they almost went bankrupt.

It would be ok for a e-mail notification for who wanted that.

Regards of the quantity of the content it should be made each 3 or 6 months.

It should have:

1 - a theorical section for exposition of theorical systems, like the
variable nozzle (it should have schemes)

2 - Pratical section, with photos and data about the rockets
carachteristics, like in thise car magazines

[Jelo]

Iv been an admin for a mmorgp game forum and iv been sending newsletters for a while, here are a few things i would include:
-ideas people got, like alamo's new airstream deployment system or Razias' terrorist weapon and interesting stuff :P
-maybe a page on the science involved? CG, CP how to calculate them...
-maybe a bit on NASA's projects?
-new record holders?
-maybe a how to zone? launchers, nozzles, nose cones...
-a section on the craziest rockets around!!
-dont forget water rocket cars!!!
-maybe a part about new comersialised water rockets
-jokes (and maybe create a joke thread):mrgreen:
-best video of the month, best rocket, best member, best everything lol
-i did a section on my favourite songs at the very end but that's just me

[Jelo]

oh yeah and send it either by e-mail, or how i did, create a post only for admin and post the letter there.

[zetez]

What would people like to see in the newsletter.

Mainly - news from last month. New WRA2 members, new rockets and cars published on the forum, last starts, new ideas published on the forum, new records, etc. And rivalry: best rocket, car, video, photo of the month.

One PDF a month.

Water rocket magazine will joint the community and rivalry will motivate people to create water rockets.

[bl4ck_4nt159]

yeahh..it's a good idea..

[Brian]

maybe get peoples blogs from their websites. and maybe one page rockets and model rockets in general.

[Tim Chen]

maybe get peoples blogs from their websites. and maybe one page rockets and model rockets in general.

There's a lot of people contributing stuff on their various websites. I can see a compilation of the latest ideas and stuff coming together for this.