Re: Has GNOME-Journal Died?

["Jayson Rowe" <jayson rowe gmail com>]

OK, so it's been some time since I e-mailed jdub. I still haven't
heard back from jdub - what should our next steps be to move forward?
I don't want to see the recent momentum die away.

What can I do to keep things moving?

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 1:09 AM, Jayson Rowe <jayson rowe gmail com> wrote:
> Man things sure got quiet here really quick :-)
>
> Anyway - I wanted to update the thread to say that I did finally mail
> Jeff, and I'm awaiting a response from him regarding getting us access
> to move to Wordpress.
>
> I'll update here once I get a reply.
>
> -jayson
>
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Jayson Rowe <jayson rowe gmail com> wrote:
>> Hi Lucas,
>> I was going to send Jeff (jdub) an email asking for his help in
>> getting us migrated to Wordpress, but I would like to know exactly
>> what needs to be done on  his end to get this accomplished...I was
>> talking this over w/ Sri on IRC, and we agreed that the more "to the
>> point" we are, the more likely we are to get speedy results.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Jayson
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Lucas Rocha <lucasr gnome org> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> First of all, sorry for the late reply. :-/
>>>
>>> 2008/8/10 Jayson Rowe <jayson rowe gmail com>:
>>>> So, what's going on? It's been 9 months or so since a new article was
>>>> posted. I am willing to help - I'd hate to see this die away, and I would
>>>> love to see it far more active (as it once was). I used to love to read the
>>>> "Behind the Scenes" series, and I would love to see this revived, and be far
>>>> more extensive and popular than KDE's "Behind KDE" page.
>>>>
>>>> What can I do to help? I'm willing to do anything. I'm 100% about promoting
>>>> GNOME, as well as giving insights into the GNOME developers and
>>>> contributers, delivering GNOME News to the community as well as showing off
>>>> coming GNOME Projects and applications.
>>>>
>>>> I would love to see GNOME Journal be a "go-to" place for folks to come and
>>>> read about GNOME, but too me, it seems it's just dying away, slowly but
>>>> surely. I know everything is done by volunteers, and that we all have
>>>> real-life, but I'm willing to give up some of my free time to make this
>>>> happen.
>>>>
>>>> I've volunteered to help several times in the past but I haven't ever gotten
>>>> any real direction on where to go, or what to do.
>>>
>>> It's just great to see everyone stepping up to get things done again :-)
>>>
>>> So, someone commented about the migration to Wordpress. The current
>>> work is available here:
>>>
>>>  http://test.gnomejournal.org/
>>>
>>> What's missing there:
>>> - Polish the CSS - there are still some small problems there
>>> - Find a WP plugin/template for the archives which makes the new
>>> page[1] look just the current one[2]
>>> - Article URLs which are backwards compatible. We could just manually
>>> add redirects for all current article URLs to the new ones. For
>>> example: http://gnomejournal.org/article/60/an-interview-with-daniel-g-siegel
>>> would redirect to something like
>>> http://www.gnomejournal.org/blog/2007/03/an-interview-with-daniel-g-siegel
>>> in WP.
>>> - Migrating the images to the new system. Might be as easy as making
>>> sure the images are in the same directory in WP.
>>> - After everything is ready, import all GJ data from TXP to WP through
>>> RSS. I did that already for testing purposes and it seems to work find
>>> (with some tweaking on the RSS before importing).
>>>
>>> We can keep polishing our WP after the basics are there. Our WP
>>> instance is simply using Sandbox theme with a custom CSS.
>>>
>>> So, some suggested short-term goals:
>>> - Schedule the next issue, define submission deadline, make a call for articles;
>>> - Ask Jeff to help us with the last needed bits for our migration to WP;
>>> - Release next issue already based on WP (with some compatibility
>>> redirects for older article urls).
>>>
>>> As for the next issue, I can interview a guy from Brazil who heading a
>>> large-scale migration to GNOME on the main public IT company in
>>> Brazil.
>>>
>>> Hope that helps :-)
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>> --lucasr
>>>
>>> [1] http://test.gnomejournal.org/archives/
>>> [2] http://www.gnomejournal.org/archives/
>>>
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>> --
>> -jayson
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> --
> -jayson
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-jayson