Re: time commitment for GNOME Journal

[Jayson Rowe <jayson rowe gmail com>]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:
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> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Jayson Rowe <jayson rowe gmail com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> It's alright Jayson, I'm taking it over.  :)
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> sri
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>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah panix com> wrote:
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>>> 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
>>> > Message-ID:
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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:
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>>> >>> >> 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!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sumana Harihareswara
>>> http://brainwane.net
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>> --
>> -jayson
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Awesome Sri - just let me know if you need anything.


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-jayson