Re: time commitment for GNOME Journal

[Jayson Rowe <jayson rowe gmail com>]

I've been giving it some thought, and I'm just not sure I can commit right now - I have a lot going on. I'm willing to help though - I really don't want to see the GNOME Jounal die away - I feel we need it now, more than ever.

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah panix com> wrote:

On 07/29/2011 08:00 AM, gnome-journal-list-request gnome org wrote:
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:53:02 -0400
> From: Jayson Rowe <jayson rowe gmail com>
> To: Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>
> Cc: gnome-journal-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: GNOME Journal needs your help
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> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:
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>> > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Jayson Rowe <jayson rowe gmail com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> I will happily do what I can. Paul, how much time would you say you were devoting regularly?
>> >
>> > Way to step up!? If you hadn't I suppose I would have since I would hate to see this project die after 8 years.
>> >
>> > sri....
>> >
> I would also totally hate to see the project die, but I can't commit
> just yet - want to hear from Paul though about how much time I'd
> expect to commit before I actually do commit.  ;-)
>
> --
> -jayson

Jayson:

I checked some old time-tracking logs and it looks like I used to spend
5-15 hours per month on GNOME Journal.  This included thinking of
article ideas, recruiting authors, coaching them, editing thoroughly (on
an idea level as well as proofreading & marking up for the CMS), adding
links and images, writing headlines and bios/teasers, and publicizing
the resulting issue via my blog, social media, and submitting links to
various FLOSS or tech mags/sites, and sometimes writing an article
myself.  The more people you have doing each of those things, the less
time any one person needs to spend to get an issue out.  The time needed
might be just 90 minutes a week most weeks (recruiting and encouraging
authors), except the week of publication when it'd be more like 4 or 5
hours.

Paul's experiences might be different, but at least there's a data point
for you!

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Sumana Harihareswara
http://brainwane.net

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-jayson