Re: GNOME News - Progress and Plans



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
Jabber: nearyd gmail com


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