Re: Let's get GNOME-Journal published

[Jim Hodapp <james hodapp gmail com>]

Paul,

    Thanks for taking the initiative to write this email. I agree  
completely with everything that you wrote, including the time frame  
(we might be able to make the time frame even a bit more aggressive).  
Of course I can write an article and will do the editing of any  
articles, afterall, editing is my main role in GJ. GJ has been  
suffering from a lack of momentum, and I believe if we can just get  
enough energy to get moving and put a quality release out there, GJ  
will be back and have enough momentum to attract some new volunteers  
and become better than ever!

As far as infrastructure goes, I believe that the Wordpress version  
was basically ready minus a few things. I forget who the person was  
who was making that migration for us. We should get it up and onto a  
staging subdirectory on the official GNOME server to test it out, get  
familiar with using it for our release process, etc. Paul, would you  
like to spearhead this effort or would you rather like to be in charge  
of getting certain people to write a few articles? That's usually the  
part that falls flat. I think we would do well to have a weekly IRC  
meeting, or even every other week to keep people coordinated. All of  
us used to be very active in #gnome-journal on IRC and that was a  
great way of keeping momentum going.

Thanks,

Jim

On Mar 30, 2009, at 11:02 AM, Paul Cutler wrote:

> Over the last year, there has been some discussion about getting a new
> edition of GNOME Journal out, including mailing list threads in Feb
> 2008 and Aug 2008.  There has not been a release of GNOME Journal
> since December 2007.
>
> I think there are three things that need to be done:
>
> 1. Agree on timing
> 2. Find Content
> 3. Infrastructure
>
> Timing:  I'd like to be aggressive and push a release no later than
> the end of June.  That gives us April to find content, May to have the
> writers write it, and June to proof and publish it.
>
> Content:  We have an interview that Jayson Rowe conducted with Stormy.
> That's one!  I'd like to get two more.  Anyone out there have an itch
> to write an article or have a stub that they'd like help with?  I've
> recently been blogging my experiences on getting involved in writing
> GNOME Documentation, and I may be able to turn that into an article of
> some kind. (Though I'd rather see an article on using Shaun McCance's
> Pulse for docs, but that's probably a ways off). What about an article
> on Friends of GNOME?  Covering the launch, GNOME on social networks,
> benefits (it's like an infomercial!)
>
> I would love to hear other ideas or help any volunteers out there.  (I
> have lots of ideas brainstormed about other idea articles, maybe I
> should start a separate thread).
>
> Infrastructure:  I don't remember the details, but Lucas reminded me
> in IRC this morning that there had been some talk previously about
> migrating to GNOME-Journal to the Wordpress-MU installation GNOME
> Blogs uses.  Does anyone have an update on this?  Was this talked
> about with any members of the GNOME infrastructure team?  What
> Wordpress plugins did we need?
>
> I would like to suggest that if we can't successfully migrate GJ in
> the next 6 to 8 weeks, we go ahead publish a new edition on the
> existing platform, unless there is a reason not to that I am not aware
> of.
>
> In summary, it's been over a year since we published GNOME-Journal,
> and it's time to get some articles out there.  I'll be posting to the
> mailing list to follow up fairly frequently, and want to help get this
> done.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Paul
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