Hi, I totally agree with you Alan as we discussed in IRC a few days ago. The Foundation and the GNOME project itself should use one main stream of News located on the homepage of gnome.org. As you can see at [1], the Foundation's blog has been a bit inactive since several months now (my post there is recent but the previous is dated July 12th), mainly because having several news feeds means having multiple writers and editors and that requires time and organization we would love seeing focused somewhere else. So, ack from me for one main and well-maintained GNOME feed for both the Foundation and the GNOME Project itself. cheers, On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Allan Day wrote: > Hi all, > > For a long time we have had a news feed for gnome.org and a separate > Foundation blog. I'm proposing that we combine them both into the > gnome.org feed. > > A bit of background. First, I think we should be moving in a direction > where the Foundation isn't considered to be a separate entity from the > GNOME project. The Foundation is a vital part of our project, there > shouldn't be much of a difference between 'The GNOME Project' and 'The > GNOME Foundation' in terms of membership and identity. Second, GNOME's > news feeds are currently in a rather poor state. They are highly > fragmented and are often dead or on life support. > > The gnome.org news feed and the Foundation blog are almost identical > in scope. The gnome.org feed provides 'official', generally > non-technical, news about what is happening in the GNOME project. The > Foundation blog is exactly the same, except that it is restricted to > the Foundation. There is a large class of subjects that I would like > to see on both streams, including board elections, fund raising > campaigns, new members, release announcements and initiatives such as > the GNOME Outreach Program for Women. Both the gnome.org news stream > and the Foundation blog would benefit from having a higher frequency > of posts. > > It might be hard to lose the Foundation blog, but I think we'd be > stronger if we united our feeds. > > Thoughts? Opinions? > > Allan > -- > IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org > Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
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