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

Tue Mar 27 14:34:17 EDT 2007

I have some comments about this topic and my comments are below inline.

> 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 think it would be a good idea to recap the 1.1 release and the Gnome
Live Media Release.

> 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.

I think we could also add a topic where we shine a light on a cool app
that is included in Foresight or in our repos.  For instance, we could
do a write up on Banshee, Avahi, Tomboy and Scribes just to name a few.

> 
> 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 think it would be a good idea to use a blog and it looks like
Wordpress-MU would be the best solution.  This way we could not only
host the newsletter blog but also a news blog, developer blogs and any
other blogs we might want to host.

> 
> 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?
> 
> 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.  :)

I would say to start out we should do a monthly release and then if we
find ourselves having a lot of content we can increase the frequency.  I
would rather see a newsletter released less frequently but with better
content than a newsletter released more often but with very limited
content.

> 
> 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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