Re: Has GNOME-Journal Died?

[Jim Hodapp <james hodapp gmail com>]

Jayson,

    Thanks for your post! I've been the biggest slacker as the editor  
'n chief, but like you said, we're all volunteers with a limited  
amount of time. I think we need to be a bit more organized for  
starters. We need some regularly scheduled online meetings (I like  
sri's idea of Skype or Ekiga), maybe every 2 weeks, or even week for  
those who can make it. I'd be willing to commit to organizing this  
meeting and picking the day and time to meet at. I've done away with a  
person project of mine that used to take up every Monday night of  
mine, so maybe this could be the time that we could meet. We could  
also setup a nice Launchpad site since this site is a very  
collaborative friendly open source project site. I've been very  
impressed by it!

Also, one thing that needs to be tackled is a move to a new CMS  
system. The major problems with this are two-fold. 1. Someone to  
spearhead the project and devote time to it. 2. Getting full shell and  
database access to the server that GJ is currently hosted on which is  
currently on the official GNOME servers. It was always a bit hard to  
change things of this fundamental nature in the past. We need to get  
rid of this road block. If someone can look into getting this full  
access for our project and how to do it (and document how to request  
this access), I'd be willing to spearhead the effort to pick a new CMS  
and get the ball rolling.

I've missed GJ myself. I love writing and editing. It'll be fun to  
have motivated people working on this again!

Thanks!

Jim


On Aug 10, 2008, at 12:06 PM, 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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