Fedora Magazine Maintence

Trupti Kini kinitrupti at gmail.com
Sun Feb 1 05:15:19 UTC 2015


Hi,
     I had proposed to write article on the magazine but I didn't get any
response. Is it because of the maintenance?


*Regards,*
Trupti Kini
Research Assistant, FOSSEE
Aerospace lab, IIT Bombay
http://fossevangelist.blogspot.in/

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 7:27 PM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > Personally, I would rather not see the magazine inundated with FESCo
> > candidate interviews.  Here's what I would suggest instead:
> >
> > (1) Publish all the interviews on wiki pages in whatever way you think
> > works best.  One per page makes sense if they are fairly long.
> >
> > (2) Publish a single article on Fedora Magazine pointing to the
> > interviews.
> >
> > The Magazine needs to be primarily reaching out to people outside the
> > Fedora community.  Focusing so much content on something that doesn't
> > concern the majority of readers, who are Fedora users and not
> > community voters, is probably not effective at attracting people to
> > the Magazine.
>
> Well, it was actually the main idea behind doing Magazine interviews
> when we came with it for Council - to open up how we do Fedora for
> general public, to introduce people to general community who works on
> Fedora...
>
> But I think after standalone Council and FESCo elections, it's not going
> to be possible anymore this way. Council was 5 interviews, FESCo is now
> five interviews. And if you add FOSCo next time - it would be just a
> spam on Magazine, nothing more. So these were special times, for the
> next time, we have to think about something different - probably what
> you described above.
>
> So I'd like to see non-elections interviews in the future happening
> more often on Magazine.
>
> Jaroslav
>
> > Paul
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 03:10:48PM +0000, Chaoyi Zha wrote:
> > > It should be OK now. Does it work for you?
> > > If you perform an nslookup on fedoramagazine.org, you can use the 66.
> IP
> > > that shows up instead of using fmag.o, it should work better. The DNS
> is
> > > slow
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015, 9:26 AM Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > On 01/28/2015 03:05 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> > > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > >> Hey Everyone,
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> We are changing a few things around for the the start.fpo site
> and
> > > > adding
> > > > > >> something things in the magazine site to improve uptime. So if
> you
> > > > see it
> > > > > >> going offline or looking odd it that is why. This should be
> back up
> > > > by the
> > > > > >> end of this weekend. Please refrain from posting anything as it
> will
> > > > not
> > > > > >> be
> > > > > >> included when the site restores Monday.
> > > > > > Thanks for heads up,
> > > > > > I was planning to publish (a bit delayed) FESCo interviews. Any
> > > > > > ideas?
> > > > > > Publish it on blog, devel-announce list maybe?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Jaroslav
> > > > >
> > > > > Jaroslav,
> > > > >
> > > > > are you intending on doing a post per interview? or a single post
> with
> > > > > all the interviews. If we are going the post per interview, we
> might
> > > > > need to get some more content in there to even out the interviews,
> so
> > > > > our readers arent bombarded with a bunch of interview posts in a
> row.
> > > >
> > > > I planned to do it as the last time - I got 5 of 7 interviews, so
> it's
> > > > the
> > > > same amount as for Council. In one big post, it could be just too
> big to
> > > > read through. But it's up to you guys to do the final call. As it's
> > > > small,
> > > > I'd say it's ok. Initially we planned two elections and it would not
> be
> > > > manageable.
> > > >
> > > > But it's down now :(. Chris, any ETA? Otherwise I'd have to find
> > > > different
> > > > way to publish it, asap - elections are already running.
> > > >
> > > > Jaroslav
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > cheers,
> > > > > ryanlerch
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >> Thanks,
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> Chris Roberts
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