Re: GNOME Weekly News

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

You will note that I (and others in GNOME Journal) did the last of the
summaries from 2003-2004  I in fact still get all the CVS stats every
week.  Not sure if they are still valid though.

But let me ask, is there really interest in this?  We're really more in
a maintenance mode here in terms of work here.  Bug fixing is more
common than features in the various areas.  It wasn't like in the days
when we were writing them with a balance of features and bugs in most
modules.  What I'm afraid of is that the whole thing just morphs into
GNOME Journal so why not just put effort in GNOME Journal?  The project
needs fresh blood, a lot of them are moonlighting on other projects and
don't have time to write articles but they can do editing.  We already
have the website, the rss, the css and whatever else that you're going
to do anyways.  Unless of course you find it exciting starting fresh.
Some people do..

If there are things, and admittedly I'm not really been keeping much to
date with what's going on.  My school and work have not been giving me
much time other than to blab on IRC at work.  I could possibly help out
and maybe we can re-tool GNOME Journal to do both a magazine section and
a daily "blog" type of thing to do weekly summaries with an RSS feed to
GNOME News or something.

sri

On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 21:19 -0700, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 09:39 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > The idea was dropped by Jason on another list.  How to get started with
> > > > a "GNOME Weekly News" ala "Fedora Weekly News" [1] and Kernel Traffic
> > > > [2]?
> > >
> > > The Fedora weekly news just like the release notes and other areas of
> > > Fedora works by dividing the otherwise considerably large amount of work
> > > into beats and then getting writers/editors to cover a particular beat
> > > with one master editor working to put together the final content.
> >
> > Sure, I'm afraid I'm missing your point.
> >
> > Planet GNOME has become too noisy to read day to day for those not much
> > involved into GNOME.  What if we had a GNOME Weekly News that people
> > could read to follow day-to-day GNOME happenings?  I think that has the
> > potential to fill in a gap.
>
> I think you might want to ask Uraeus about that:
>
> http://developer.gnome.org/news/
>
> Luis
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