GNOME News

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Hey all,

There's recently been some discussion about doing more in the news
department. This is something we've been trying to move forward for
some time but have struggled to make any progress with. Emily's done a
good job getting some posts out in the past few days though, and I'm
hopeful that we can get something going.

The previous incarnation of our plans was to create a separate GNOME
News site, which would take over some duties from news.gnome.org.
Christy did a great job trying to make that happen, but I think it was
probably too ambitious. Taking a simpler approach and using the
existing blog at gnome.org/news seems like a more realistic option.

To make this work, we'll need a few things:

* Review of posts before publication
* A schedule for posts and a list of ideas for future material
* Publishing of posts in a choreographed fashion
* Regular meetings to plan ahead
* Display of authors on the website
* A more interesting looking news page [1]

Making this happen shouldn't be too hard. The main thing we'll need is
a small group of editors to keep things rolling along. Sri and Emily
have already said that they'd like to help, and I'll chip in (more
help will definitely be welcome though).

The next step is to get together to work out the details. We can do
this online or at GUADEC if there will be enough people there.
Thoughts?

Allan

[1] http://www.gnome.org/news/