[Foresight-distro] Re: [Foresight-devel] Re: Monthly News Release

Tue Mar 27 08:38:25 EDT 2007

Paul thanks for taking lead on this... find my comments inline.

On 3/26/07, Paul Cutler <silwenae at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry to send this to both lists, but I'd quickly like to get some feedback
> around the idea of a Foresight Linux Newsletter, and call for some
> volunteers.
>
> As discussed previously on the list, I'd like to publish a Foresight Linux
> Newsletter, and will volunteer to edit and publish content, as well as help
> aggregate the content.  I believe it's a great opportunity to server our
> users on what's going on with the distro and in the community, as well as
> good tool for marketing and promotion.  One comment I heard, I believe in
> IRC, was that with our forums not having a lot of activity, it may give the
> perception that this isn't a very active distro.  Our IRC channel is exactly
> the opposite, not only very active, but also very friendly and encouraging.
> I think a newsletter is a great way to show all the different things going
> on and help convince users and developers to join.
>
> I've started a wiki page to get the conversation going, including proposed
> structure for content, and a high level publishing schedule:
>
> http://wiki.foresightlinux.com/confluence/display/marketing/Foresight+Linux+Newsletter+Overview
>
> What we need to quickly discuss:
>
> 1.  Do we want to publish the first article this weekend and recap the March
> 1.1 and GNOME Live Media release?  I will get a rough draft on the wiki up,
> I think the first one will be the easiest.  I'll have a rough first draft
> for review up by this time tomorrow night (10:00 p.m. CST)

I would like to publish it this weekend and tonight should be ok for
the content.  We probably need a little more time to get the blog up
and skinned, but we can plug the content in later.
>
> 2. I need feedback on the wiki page to make sure we have agreement on the
> topics.  I built a draft structure, as well as possible topics that could be
> included, but I wasn't sure they should be.  Please remember we want to be
> fairly consistent in the structure for the long term.  I looked at other
> distro's newsletters to get some ideas, including Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian.
>
> 3. Are we agreed on using a blog engine to post the content?  This will
> allow easy RSS feeds.  I recommend Wordpress-MU at this time
> (http://mu.wordpress.org/), as most of the other CMS engines were overkill.
> Wordpress-MU will also give us the ability down the road to offer blogs to
> developers who may not have their own webspace.

I agree, this is probably our best choice

>
> 4.  If we are agreed on Wordpress-MU, I could use some help on creating a
> quick theme.  I started one, but my skills may be best used in help getting
> the content together, as my html / php coding skill is fairly rudimentary.
> Any volunteers?

Jon, you think you can whip something up?  If not I might be able to
find some time.

> 5.  Publishing Frequency - this is mentioned on the wiki page as well.  My
> goal, and we should discuss this, would be to make sure we are publishing
> timely, but interesting content, and not just publishing to publish.  I like
> GNOME-Journal, but it's also an example of not having a very consistent
> schedule.  We can start monthly, bi-weekly, or weekly, if we feel we have
> enough content.  But we all have to pitch in too with ideas.  :)

Lets start with a regular monthly post, plus smaller posts when there
are specific things we want to tell people.

>
> Thanks for hearing me out, I know this is a lot to discuss very quickly.  I
> would like to see us try and publish this weekend, as I think we have a lot
> of great things to take credit for that happened in the last month.  We can
> decide from there on some of the details.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Paul Cutler
> silwenae at gmail.com
>
>
> On 3/24/07, Paul Cutler < silwenae at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Weekly may be aggressive, but I'm open to posting often, just need info
> from the devs with what we're up to.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> >
> > On 24 Mar 2007 15:49:00 -0400, Jonathan Smith <smithj at rpath.com> wrote:
> > > I think it should be more than just once a month... Weekly?
> > >
> > > Be sure to publish it to lwn and the like.
> > >
> > > -smithj
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: "Ken VanDine" < ken at vandine.org>
> > > Date: Saturday, Mar 24, 2007 11:24 am
> > > Subject: [Foresight-devel] Re: Monthly News Release
> > > To: "Paul Cutler" < silwenae at gmail.com>
> > > CC: foresight-devel at lists.rpath.org
> > >
> > > I think this would be great!  It should really be a news blog where we
> > > >can post a variety of new related things, but once a month you (Paul I
> assume you are really volunteering to lead it) can post a news letter.
> > > > The same news letter can be emailed to the list or maybe a separate
> > > >subscriber list.
> > > >
> > > >I do think we could come up with enough content, just need someone
> > > >that will stay on top of it and beat on the developers for content.
> > > >
> > > >Thanks,
> > > >--Ken
> > > >
> > > >On 3/24/07, Paul Cutler <silwenae at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Is there any interest in creating a monthly newsletter around
> Foresight?
> > > > I'm wondering if there would be enough content, but I was thinking for
> > > > structure:
> > > >
> > > >> 1.  Foresight News (such as this month's major release to 1.1, Live
> Media)
> > > > 2.  Package updates (if any packages have major releases that are
> available
> > > > via updateall, such as Banshee 0.12.0 etc)
> > > > 3.  Security Updates
> > > > 4.  Community News (such as Foresight in the news or reviewed on
> another
> > > > site, documentation updates on the wiki, etc).
> > > >
> > > >> My thought it can serve the community to help know what's going on
> and it
> > > > gives us marketing and promotion if any other websites pick it up.
> > > >
> > > >> I thought I'd drop a note here first to see if there is interest,
> then we
> > > > could move it to the wiki to collaborate on the different topics.  I
> know
> > > > it's short notice, but it could be neat to publish our first one in
> the next
> > > > 10 days to recap all the stuff in March.
> > > >
> > > >> I would need our developer's help for #2 and #3 above.  Over time, if
> we
> > > > feel there is not enough content for monthly, we could always go
> quarterly
> > > > as well.
> > > >
> > > >>
> > > > I'd also be interested in hearing how other communities do this - I
> know
> > > > Ubuntu has the Fridge (http://fridge.ubuntu.com/) and a weekly
> newsletter.
> > > >
> > > >> Please send in your thoughts and suggestions.
> > > >
> > > >> Thanks!
> > > >
> > > >> Paul
> > > > silwenae at gmail.com
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