Re: Has GNOME-Journal Died?

[Jayson Rowe <jayson rowe gmail com>]

Ken VanDine wrote:
> We aren't dead... but definately stale.  What we really need is more
> people to work on it that has some time.  All of us old timers are now
> overwhelmed with other things.  
>
> Right now the major need is articles.  We accept articles from anyone.
> Once those are submitted, we kind of need someone to stay on us to
> review those and get the ones we want to publish edited.  
>
> Personally I want to see us become more structured.  For example have
> regular columns that focus on different things.  Like i really want a
> column that focuses on using GNOME, something that can help new users
> learn how to best use GNOME and GNOME tools.  Also columns discussing
> GNOME dev tools, process, and probably about what's new and coming.  For
> example, I have been thinking about writing something about new modules
> accepted for 2.24.
>
> --Ken
>
> On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 12:06 -0400, Jayson Rowe wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Jayson
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(I accidentally didn't reply to the list - sorry for the double-mail Ken 
:-) )

Thanks for the reply Ken,
I'm wondering now, how many people are actively involved (or willing to 
be actively involved) in the GNOME Journal?

I've checked out some of the wiki pages such as these:

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeJournal/ArticleWishlist
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeJournal/ArticleSubmissionQueue

Most of the info in the ArticleSubmissionQueue is very out-dated (or is 
it?), and on the ArticleWishlist page, it's hard to tell how old the 
information is.

Also, I just found: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeJournal/BehindTheScenes

This is the area that interests me a lot, and is actually an area I feel 
I can contribute. I'm sure I could get one of these done per issue (if 
we can start doing regular issue releases again). I do not feel I'm 
skilled enough of a writer to tackle a big, involved article involving 
lots of research (nor do I have enough time to properly devote to 
articles such as that), but I enjoy people, and learning more about 
them, so the Behind The Scenes series always intrigued me. I could also 
possibly tackle some articles in the vein of Ken's suggesting regarding 
"Using GNOME" or "GNOME from the End-User Perspective" (since I am a 
non-coder). I think articles such as these will not only be an 
interesting read for anyone, but could work in reverse of the "Behind 
the Scenes" series by giving the coders an insight into what the 
end-user sees, wants and thinks.

As for other types of articles, I'm still willing to contribute where 
and how I can, and I could help getting things organized and keeping 
things on track for a deadline. When I first mentioned getting involved 
Sri suggested a pretty massive project involving the Online Desktop, and 
that was way too much for me to handle.

I would like to see if we could get some fresh info on the pages linked 
above to see where we are, and where we need to go