Current Issue
The purpose of the Chalice newsletter is to provide current information about OUUF's mission, organization, ideas and events, activities, and opportunities to members, potential members, friends, visitors and the larger community, and to help build our community.
The Chalice welcomes nearly any submission, although the print edition is strictly limited to eight pages (seven and a half) for technical reasons. An event has to be sponsored by our Fellowship, whether formally or informally, to get mention in the Chalice. This is to include news items from the OMD District and the UUA, but the newsletter is not a community bulletin board.
Examples of items which will be rejected:
- Commercial endorsements
- Endorsements of a political candidate or party
- Letters to the editor
- Controversial essays by members
- Private street addresses except by explicit permission
- Outside advertising
- Personal events or family news (health, family visits, travel news, recipes...)
- Copyrighted content without permission from the owner
- Content that is abusive, insulting, threatening, obscene, hateful, racially, or ethnically objectionable or that contains inappropriate personal or embarrassing information
Email is strictly preferred: send to "editor" AT "ouuf.org"
The Chalice is composed on a Macintosh with the iWork application "Pages." As such, article headlines and such are composited in a range of fonts and text is set in columns as required.
You don't need to worry about this, in fact, you don't have to worry about how the text is formatted or what it looks like at all, that's the Editor's job! Your job as a "reporter" for the Chalice is to double-check the accuracy of your article, especially the proper spelling of names of individuals mentioned. Your Editor isn't any better at this than you are, neither do we know everyone in the Fellowship (yet).
It's easiest on the Editor if you send your article simply formatted. Don't add extra returns or blank lines to make it look better; we just remove those later. Don't bother with boldface or italics or color, all that also comes out again. Especially please, please, DON'T PUT THE TITLES IN ALL CAPS, as for those we usually must type them over again. Many of our headline fonts look best in mixed-case.
Word documents will be accepted if you must, but if it's easiest for you to put your words in a plain email, it's also easiest for us that way, too. If you use Word Perfect or some other word processor, try to save your document in Word format, or at least tell us what application you did use and we'll do our best to get the article out of it.
Photos are welcome, and any size is acceptable; we can adjust as necessary. Many email systems don't permit large photo attachments, however, so smaller is often better. Often 4 x 6 inches or 1024 x 768 pixels come across fine, and we don't need higher resolution for most articles. You don't have to put them in the text, attachments are fine.
