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And a few words about our magazine….. We are an international, interactive and peer-reviewed magazine about bridges. I established it two years ago as a Czech – English magazine with the main aim to bring information about bridges worldwide to Czech bridge engineers. To my surprise the magazine very soon crossed the borders and last year in spring after we released March Issue: Asian Bridges we got readers from the whole world. Their number was fast increasing and this led, together with starting cooperation with Mr David Collings and Mr Richard Cooke, to a decision that the magazine will be published solely in English. Its Czech title remains as our readers have got used to it, e-mosty means “e-bridges”, and I think that the logo can be easily remembered. Our aim is to bring original articles about bridges worldwide, mostly technical, educational, informative and descriptive, and to utilise the most of the fact that the magazine is electronic – we can publish also drawings, photos, videos, links etc. The magazine will be released quarterly as it is now, and we will still keep it open access on our homepage www.e-mosty.cz. Now, after two years, with an increasing number of readers, authors and also members of our editorial board, and a lot of challenging plans for the future I would like to ask you for cooperation. What can you do for us? Partners I do my best to keep the magazine open access, with the content educational rather than commercial and avalanched by advertisements. I believe that financing of the magazine may be provided by partners / supporters. You can help me find partners / supporters and/or become our partner yourself. What can you do for it? - Share the magazine if you like it - Forward it to a person responsible for PR / Marketing - Contact us on [email protected] Your direct financial contribution I have noticed that especially in IT and “creative” word the system of “Donations” perfectly works. If you like their software, game, film, song, you can easily donate, usually via PayPal. From this it was only a step to my idea to start with a concept of “Voluntary Subscription”. You can find a button “DONATE” on our web www.e-mosty.cz. If you like our magazine, please support us. The amount of your financial contribution is solely at your discretion and we very much thank you in advance. New web I have tried to get somebody who will be able to redesign our homepage www.e-mosty.cz. Generally it looks good, but some of its features are useless (repetitive publication of the same issues, the archive in Czech, wrong order of planned issues etc.) Unfortunately, I have failed to find a reliable and suitable person. A lot of promises and a waste of time and money and it has not moved anywhere. I kindly ask you – if you know about somebody reliable willing and capable of redesigning / programming the web which now runs on wordpress template and needs only a few improvements, please let me know. Thank you. 2/2017