Re: Issue 17 Status (& Help Needed)

[Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>]

Sumana,

Thanks for your work in re-organizing the wiki pages and your email below.  Your timing is awesome and really made my day as I've been feeling a bit down about GNOME Journal when our last issue fell apart last week.

I'll be acting as the release coordinator for Issue 17 Women in GNOME.  I was planning on sending out an email today regarding status.  Historically the wiki page isn't update regarding the writing status unless someone lets one of us know.

I'll follow-up on the articles you mention below.  Sri was interviewing Robert regarding Seed, but unfortunately Robert's laptop died and he hasn't been available the last few months.  I had sent Jon McCann some follow-up emails as well but haven't heard from him regarding the GNOME Shell design article, but I agree with you this would be a great article to get published if he has the time.  I'll also talk to Danielle after Issue 17 as we have two Telepathy articles planned and we'll see what we can do to keep Telepathy / Empathy in the news.

Thanks again - it's very energizing to have the help.

Paul

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumana harihareswara collabora co uk> wrote:

The next issue will be Issue 17 - Women in GNOME scheduled for 11/15 with
articles due 11/1.

I've now updated the http://live.gnome.org/GnomeJournal wiki pages to reflect this.  The Article Submission Queue suggests people haven't made progress on their articles yet, and we're ten days from the due date; is that so?

Who's the release coordinator/editor for Issue 17?  I can have him or her a draft of my article by Sunday the 25th.

For Issue 18 in December, we will include Jim and Jono's articles, and here
is where I need help.  Jorge and I were chatting the other day about other
articles Jorge could help write, and our well is a bit dry.  We need
brainstorming help from the community on topics they / you would like to see
covered in GNOME Journal.  What is the best way to brainstorm about this?
What ideas do you have?  All feedback welcome!

Paul, I've organized http://live.gnome.org/GnomeJournal/ArticleWishlist a little, so that might help you out.  Especially check out the "Development & Functionality" and "End User Value, Deployments" categories.

Of the abandoned articles listed on the Submission Queue page, I'm especially interested in the first three: a GNOME Shell design goals piece, a Seed overview, and a Telepathy Tubes piece.  If you could convince Danielle Madeley to write up "Dr Gnomelove: or how I learnt to stop hating Autotools and love the Build" I'm sure it would be useful as well.

If you are still keen on having it be a multimedia issue, you might consider a Brasero review/compare-and-contrast with its competitors, or talking about the spread of GStreamer on mobile devices.

-Sumana Harihareswara
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