Re: Organising GNOME News

["Karen Sandler" <karen gnome org>]

On Thu, January 12, 2012 7:05 am, Allan Day wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We can do a much better job at organising our news generating
> activities, so that we have a more regular flow of posts and so that
> we adequately cover events when they happen.
>
> To this end, I've started some planning pages on the wiki. There's a
> high-level [1] page covering goals and, perhaps more importantly,
> there's also a planning page [2] that covers event planning and
> content ideas.
>
> I think we should have someone who is responsible for coordinating the
> news around each GNOME event. They need to make sure that news stories
> get written and proofed and go out on time, and they need to make sure
> that necessary arrangements take place before each event. As I trial
> run, I've put myself down as the news lead for FOSDEM 2012 [3]. If it
> goes well I'm hoping that other people will volunteer to do other
> events. I hope that this will give people an opportunity to get
> involved in generating GNOME news and gives us a vehicle to get more
> organised.
>
> Thoughts? Opinions?

I think this is great! I wonder, is there any way we can key the dates
from the wiki to cron job emails to the marketing list? Or some other way
to make sure we don't let any of the items that we put on the page slip
through the cracks? Just a thought!
karen

>
> Allan
>
> [1] https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/News/
>
> [2] https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/News/ContentPlanning
>
> [3] https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/News/ContentPlanning/FOSDEM
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