On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Ruth Suehle <rsuehle@redhat.com> wrote:
A group of interested people gathered today to discuss breathing some new life into Fedora Weekly News (minutes below). What we concluded was that we'd actually like to breathe some life into Insight and for FWN to become an arm of that. To expound, here's the proposal:
- suehle, jbrooks, and iambryan have volunteered as editors
- We'd like to expand Insight to be more blog, web-magazine-style with:
- Short, informative content like you might think of FWN for
- Longer form stories, interviews, and articles
- The technical content that Fedora used to create to some extent for Red Hat Magazine (which is in high demand but no longer exists)
- Cultivated content from Planet
- The content that Insight was already meant for, like Board meeting minutes or announcements
- Fedora Weekly News would then become the weekly email newsletter of highlights from what had been published on Insight that week.
- We'd like to see at least two writers/cultivators-of-content per beat
What we're looking for now is for someone to shout, "good idea!", "bad idea!", or "I was already halfway through with something like that!" before we continue down the path. "I'd like to help with a beat!" is also a good answer. :-)
Thanks!
Ruth
+1.
FWN is one of the core stream to send the news to the Fedora Community, technical magazines, and other respected communities of the world.
Since, I have been contributing at FWN, I have noticed the following which might help in future:
The editing of the news is not the very challenging task but updating the beat. Last time, the FWN was offered to automated the beat with a script, but to manual procedure was chosen to make the contributors very highly interest into the FWN. All these steps are now failed and it is notwithstanding useless to release the FWN with only not more than three or four contributors and with the two or three beats.
The FWN release hence been not published regularly since last couple months.
There is no offensive about all these, because FWN is part of marketing, logistics, and the board. Very few contributors are interested to step inside the vast news stream inside fedora and to me very few are actually aware about it except those who really into it.
Every idea has certain consequences unless you ever try. Here is my recommendation rather ideas:
No wonder, the FWN must be ready to adopt the technical stream of news.