Re: GNOME News

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Dave Neary <dneary gnome org> wrote:

I'm not sure if that is sustainable.  We will need a larger pool of
volunteers to do this I think.  (which is good for me, because I think
we have bought in a bunch of people, but we lose them because there is
no work to be done)

It depends on what you are posting - 3 detailed blog posts a week, I'd agree. But if you have one longer piece (like 600-1200 words) and two shorter call-outs to either interesting GNOME community blogs, or mailing lists threads, or 3rd party articles, with a couple of sentences of context and commentary, it is not a lot of work. And if we really do manage to spread the load (say, shifts of 2-3 people who "own" shorter posts for a week, with different people each week, and someone gently reminding the weekly editors) I think it could work.

I agree that some of that is not a lot of work to write it.  But disseminating information is what we need the volunteer work for.  We don't have a good structure on what's going on that's interesting for people to know.  For instance, I usually figure out what articles to write because of a blog post, but also on IRC conversations and what not.  Sometimes, I might even see something in the commit log that might also spur an article idea.

It is those kind of things that take a lot of of work.