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

Tue Mar 27 23:48:13 EDT 2007

A first draft is up at:

http://wiki.foresightlinux.com/confluence/display/marketing/Foresight+Linux+Monthly+Newsletter+Volume+I%2C+Issue+I+%28March+2007%29

Big rocks remaining:

1. Package updates - any big ones to call out that have been updated since
the 1.1 release?  I believe kernel 2.6.20 is standard now, but I wasn't sure
where else to gather that information.

2.  Development News - is there anything we want to mention?  New packages
for the next release (which I assume is a point release with GNOME 2.18.1 on
4/11/07?)  Worthy of being discussed?

3. Foresight in the press:  we had a few web links with the 1.1 release and
GNOME 2.18 release - anyone have those to share?  Any magazines?  I thought
I remembered Thilo saying a German magazine did a story and included a
Foresight 1.0 disc?

4. I'll add the Laptop tips & tricks tomorrow (or anyone else can, feel
free, I only know the basics).  I wanted to crank out some content tonight,
and that's easy to come back to. Will focus on some GNOME applets you can
add, CPU scaling, etc.

5. Contributing - I need to update that, add some specific content around
the newsletter is well.

I like to believe I have above average spelling and grammar skills, but I do
know my writing style can be a bit dry.  Please feel free to edit the wiki
or send feedback, I take criticism well, and won't be offended.  I really
liked Kevin Harriss' idea around featuring an application each month, so I
quickly wrote up Banshee, my favorite app.  We don't have to do that one
this month if folks want to write something else, but quickly.

Thanks for the feedback, I'm starting to get excited about this now!

Paul

On 3/27/07, Kevin Harriss <special.kevin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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