Re: Let's get GNOME-Journal published

[Paul Cutler <pcutler foresightlinux org>]

Per Jim's suggestion, I update the GNOME Journal wiki pages on
live.gnome.org to reflect our meeting, which will be this Thursday
evening:

* http://live.gnome.org/GnomeJournal

I also created a new page linked from the GJ page for planning
meetings, and added the agenda.  If you are planning on coming to the
meeting this Thursday, please add your name.

* http://live.gnome.org/GnomeJournalPlanningMeetings

Thanks, and see you there!

Paul


On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Paul Cutler <pcutler foresightlinux org> wrote:
> After going back through the mailing list archives and an impromptu
> meeting in #gnome-journal on Gimpnet IRC (Come join us, we won't
> bite!), I believe we have the content to publish a new edition of GJ!
> I think we have 2 major to-dos around content and infrastructure.
>
> Current Content:
>
> * GNOME Asia Summit Recap
> (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-journal-list/2008-November/msg00000.html)
> - Need an editor to volunteer
>
> * Interview with Stormy Peters by Jayson Rowe
> (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-journal-list/2008-December/msg00002.html)
> - Need an editor to volunteer
>
> * Gconf Configuration Editor
> (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-journal-list/2007-December/msg00016.html)
> This one is slightly older, and needs to be checked for accuracy and
> edited.  Volunteer?
>
> * Sri is also working on an application review
>
> Infrastructure:
>
> It appears that our test instance of GJ running on Wordpress is on our
> server at http://test.gnomejournal.org.  I believe there was some talk
> about moving it to the GNOME infrastructure, and that has not happened
> yet.  One earlier email late last year was sent to Jeff Waugh by
> Jayson Rowe, but Jayson never heard back from him.  Does anyone have a
> suggestion on who we can contact or the process to make this happen?
>
> According to Lucas in an email last August, the work that needs to be
> done to finish porting GJ from our current CMS to Wordpress:
> (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-journal-list/2008-August/msg00018.html)
>
> * Polish the CSS - there are still some small problems
> * Find a Wordpress plugin or template for the archives which makes the
> new page look like the current one (Archives on Wordpress:
> http://test.gnomejournal.org/archives/ / Current Archives:
> http://www.gnomejournal.org/archives/ )
> * Make the article URLs backwards compatible. We could just manually
> add redirects for all current article URLs to the new ones. For
> example: http://gnomejournal.org/article/60/an-interview-with-daniel-g-siegel
> would redirect to something like
> http://www.gnomejournal.org/blog/2007/03/an-interview-with-daniel-g-siegel
> in WP.
> * Migrate the images to the new system.  Might be as easy as making
> sure the images are in the same directory in Wordpress.
> * After everything is ready, import all GJ data from TXP CMS to
> Wordpress through RSS.  Lucas did that for testing purposes last year,
> and it seemed to work fine with some minor tweaking to the RSS before
> importing.
>
>
> With all that said, next steps are:
>
> * Edit current articles (Need volunteers)
> * Find a contact in GNOME to help with next steps in getting GJ on the
> GNOME servers / Wordpress platform (blogs.gnome.org?)
> * Find volunteers to help with finalizing moving to Wordpress,
> including CSS experience and WP plugin experience
>
> In talking in IRC today, and in the spirit of moving forward
> aggressively, I would like to suggest a brief meeting in IRC this
> week, either Wed or Thursday, at 10 p.m. EST / 2:00 a.m. GMT.  I
> understand that might be a bit early for those in Western Europe, but
> I'm not where everyone is, and I understand that similar times have
> worked in the past.
>
> A rough agenda would be to discuss the content and infrastructure next
> steps recapped above, a potential publication date, and future
> planning.
>
> Please let me know what day would work better.  I will volunteer to
> keep notes and publish a recap after the meeting for those who can't
> be there.
>
> We need your help - we need editors, CSS hackers, and Wordpress
> hackers for this next edition.  Looking forward to hearing from you!
>
> Paul
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Jim Hodapp <james hodapp gmail com> wrote:
>> 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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>>
>>
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