On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Ruth Suehle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rsuehle@redhat.com" target="_blank">rsuehle@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div id=":1nj">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:<br>
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- suehle, jbrooks, and iambryan have volunteered as editors<br>
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- We'd like to expand Insight to be more blog, web-magazine-style with:<br>
- Short, informative content like you might think of FWN for<br>
- Longer form stories, interviews, and articles<br>
- The technical content that Fedora used to create to some extent for Red Hat Magazine (which is in high demand but no longer exists)<br>
- Cultivated content from Planet<br>
- The content that Insight was already meant for, like Board meeting minutes or announcements<br>
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- Fedora Weekly News would then become the weekly email newsletter of highlights from what had been published on Insight that week.<br>
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- We'd like to see at least two writers/cultivators-of-content per beat<br>
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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. :-)<br>
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Thanks!<br>
Ruth</div></blockquote></div><br><div><ul style="margin-left:.1402in;direction:ltr;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in">
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Garamond;font-size:11.0pt">+1.</p>
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<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Garamond;font-size:16.0pt">FWN is one of the
core stream to send the news to the Fedora Community, technical magazines, and
other respected communities of the world.</p>
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<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Garamond;font-size:16.0pt">Since, I have been
contributing at FWN, I have noticed the following which might help in future: </p>
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<ol type="I" style="margin-left:0.375in;direction:ltr;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;font-family:Garamond;font-size:16pt">
<li value="1" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:16pt">Very keen
interest to update the beat.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:16pt">Very few response.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:16pt">Sometimes, hard to select
the news from the mailing stream.</span></li>
</ol>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-left:.375in;font-family:Garamond;font-size:16.0pt"> </p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Garamond;font-size:16.0pt">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.</p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Garamond;font-size:11.0pt"> </p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Garamond;font-size:16.0pt">The FWN release
hence been not published regularly since last couple months.</p>
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<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Garamond;font-size:16.0pt">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.</p>
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<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Garamond;font-size:16.0pt">Every idea has
certain consequences unless you ever try. Here is my recommendation rather
ideas:</p>
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<ol type="1" style="margin-left:0.375in;direction:ltr;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;font-family:Garamond;font-size:16pt">
<li value="1" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:16pt">To make the beat
automated and let the editors collect their news. (It will be a giant
beat in this case)</span></li>
<li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:16pt">The readers love the
following:</span></li>
<ol type="a" style="margin-left:0.375in;direction:ltr;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;font-size:16pt">
<li value="1" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:16pt">Make things
faster, lighter, much effective, pictorial, one word or one sentence
understanding with the whole news, more information but less words, and
only those information that they want to use or read. (here we must
analyze who we send the news, and what they actually want)</span></li>
<li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:16pt">The FWN has to be send
into the following format:</span></li>
<ol type="i" style="margin-left:0.375in;direction:ltr;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;font-size:16pt">
<li value="1" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:16pt">Make Tile</span></li>
<li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:16pt">Contributors Name(Fedora
Format)</span></li>
<li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:16pt">Date and time of the news</span></li>
<li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:16pt">Abstract (It is hard for
those who have no idea about making genius news)</span></li>
<li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:16pt">The original link of the
news and sources</span></li>
</ol>
</ol>
<ol type="a" style="margin-left:0.375in;direction:ltr;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;font-size:16pt">
<li value="3" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:16pt">Make things
non-technical for readers- there are lot who ignores reading technical
news. We have our original link for those who loves technical details.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></li>
</ol>
</ol>
<ol type="1" style="margin-left:0.375in;direction:ltr;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;font-family:Garamond;font-size:16pt">
<li value="3" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:16pt">Make three types
of news within one email:</span></li>
<ol type="a" style="margin-left:0.375in;direction:ltr;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;font-size:16pt">
<li value="1" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:16pt">One page
gorgeous and colorful information Headlines(Link connected to the beat)
and their abstract.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:16pt">The regular beat for
highly technical people until 3-a is on the people's plate.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:16pt">Make things readable from
iPad, cell phone, and related.</span></li>
</ol>
</ol>
<ol type="1" style="margin-left:0.375in;direction:ltr;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;font-family:Garamond;font-size:16pt">
<li value="4" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:16pt"> To appreciate the contributors, make
some gorgeous title for those beat writers, editors, and contributors
inside FWN alike "FWN Monkey", "Junior FWN",
"Fedora Junior", "FWN Journo", "Fedora
Journalist", or whatever the community loves.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:16pt">The organogram of FWN-</span></li>
<ol type="a" style="margin-left:0.375in;direction:ltr;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;font-size:16pt">
<li value="1" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:16pt">The logistics
board or the editors(who only review the content) before the news leads
into public.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:16pt">The editors(who is
responsible to publish the news) to make the news non-technical with all
the information.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:16pt">The beat writers (I always
believe is manual for those who really wants to works, but love
automated when things go wrong.) </span></li>
<li style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:16pt">Contributing writer for
thread and original link.</span></li>
</ol>
</ol>
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Garamond;font-size:16.0pt"> </p>
<p style="margin:0in;font-family:Garamond;font-size:16.0pt">No wonder, the FWN must be ready to adopt the technical stream of news.</p>
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