Ephemeris Editor Sought

Your current editors, Paul and Mary Kohlmiller, have thoroughly enjoyed working on the SJAA Ephemeris newsletter. We started with the January 2004 issue and with the generous help of past editors Jane and Morris Jones, we hit the ground running and never had a major problem. We’ve enjoyed the support of the current and past boards of directors. But 6 years is a long time at one job and the newsletter needs new leadership.

Our goal is to find someone who has the ability and enthusiasm to take over as editor. Although we use certain tools, the new editor is not constrained by them. The print version is exported to Adobe Acrobat format and many tools can do that including MS Word. We have a couple of small hand-developed applications that help with the HTML version. Touchups are done with very ordinary text editors. For more detail of what we do each month see http://ephemeris.sjaa.net/ToDoEphemeris.htm. Thanks to Gordon Reade and other SJAA board members, the editors don’t have to deal with mailings, circulation or paying the printer. Each month we send one e-mail to the board asking them to proof read the Ephemeris, then we send an e-mail to the printer to tell them it is ready, and the last e-mail is to Ephemeris announcement mailing list.

If you are interested in being the SJAA Ephemeris Editor, please contact us at Ephemeris@sjaa.net.