Re: Developing GNOME News

[alex diavatis <alexis diavatis gmail com>]

Hello Allan,

I think that gnome.org consistency is a bit broken on several areas, for example on gnome.org we have latest news that are totally different from latest news on news.gnome.org.

I don't think that the news should be on a sub-domain, news is a core module of Gnome Page and should always be present on the Home Page and on main domain also. 

On WoGue I build home page using widgets (some similar to windows 8) that represents sections of our site, eg News, Games, Successfully Stories etc.. 

Widget's style-sheet is defined from last update date, I keep them small (so I can use a lot on home page without making seem heavy) and I display last news on a single line,

I expand them on mouse event, and I give two options: Read a specific Item, or Visit the whole section that this item exists. 

I think that the result I have accomplish is pretty (even if I don't know Gimp :) ) quick and practical.

Well my opinion is that on gnome home page, you have to offer easy and quick access to everything, and widget blocks is a nice solution to keep things simple and minimalist.

 

We can display official gnome news on one of our widgets using RSS, Ajax or something.

Our material exceeds Gnome and we get things that Gnome Page can't present like Themes (http://art.gnome.org/themes page is dead?) Games and Interviews.

We are planning services for Thumps up/Down, Sorting by criteria on Games and Themes (and maybe extensions and Gnome Apps when they get online) but our main purpose is 

to present future Ideas on Gnome. and let people that read us, to Thumps them up if they like them. 

I guess there is space on WoGue as we cannot present actually Gnome news, because we don't know them, we learn them from you :)

We would be more than happy if we could merge in a way of covering different aspects for Gnome 

Regards, 

- alex 

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Allan Day <allanpday gmail com> wrote:

Hi all,

My action item from last week's meeting was to mail the list about
options for our news sites. So here we go!

The question is how we should develop GNOME's news sites and what role
GNOME Journal should have. A number of goals were brought up in our
discussion last week, including:

 * Doing a better job of getting the news out
 * Enabling people to contribute to GNOME marketing more easily
 * Reducing fragmentation of our news sources

I'm personally keen to address these issues and could use some of my
time working on them. It seems like there are a few possible
approaches:

*** Turn GNOME Journal into a blog ***

I spoke to the previous journal editors about publishing more
regularly and they weren't too keen. The future for GNOME Journal
seems uncertain right now, since it lacks contributors.

*** Make gnome.org the primary site for GNOME news ***

We already have a news feed on the site and this could be expanded to
include a greater variety of content. I think the question here is
whether we want to expand the role of gnome.org away from 'official'
announcements and news. My sense is that we don't, but I would be
interested to hear other peoples' views on this.

*** Use news.gnome.org ***

This only carries syndicated content right now. We could turn it into
a site that pushes stories from elsewhere and has its own original
content, however (like LWN does). This approach appeals to me because
it would mean that we would have a single place for both kinds of
content. GNOME News could also pull in content from GNOME Journal and
gnome.org, creating a single place for news.

*** Wogue ***

It's great to see a new volunteer-run effort, and I certainly wouldn't
want to compete with it. We could leave Wogue to take care of the news
problem for us, but I suspect that it is targeting a slightly
different audience from the one that we are interested in, and that
there is space for us to have our own site too. We should certainly
work to ensure that our efforts don't overlap with Wogue's as it
develops.

So, which of these options do people prefer? I'd really like to hear
your views on this!

Allan
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