Re: GNOME News - Progress and Plans

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi,

On 03/01/2012 11:26 AM, Allan Day wrote:

...

Thanks for the update! Looks like things are coming along nicely. Any 
feedback from the Journal authors & editors? Are they involved in the 
news rework at this point?

To be an effective news site, we will need to be very selective about 
the content we agrgegate - I don't want, for example, an announce 
mailing list RSS stream sent straight to the site - and see half of the 
front page with fixed-width font that doesn't fit with the rest of the 
site. And we definitely need editorial control on what gets promoted 
to/included on the main news site to keep people coming back.

> However, there are some outstanding questions that still need answering:
>
> * Should we have a comments system on the new site?

Yes, definitely.

> * Where should official announcements, such as press releases, be
> made? Do they have to be hosted on gnome.org in order to look
> official, or could they go on news.gnome.org, for example?

I'd keep "proper" press releases somewhere else - the news site 
shouldn't just be a regurgitated press release, it should be a less 
formal, potentially more informative, commentary on the press release.

> * What does this mean for the role of GNOME Journal, if anything?

I'd like to see this *be* the GNOME Journal. What I'd like to see is 
have people sign up to a newsletter if they want, and have a monthly 
"Best of GNOME News" newsletter sent out, with links to the original 
articles & top stories of the month.

Cheers,
Dave.

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Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
dneary gnome org
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