Fedora Weekly News: needing invigoration

[Pascal Calarco]

Hi folks -

We are more than a month since we have had enough content for another issue of FWN, and so
I thought I would post openly to the News, Ambassadors, and Marketing lists, asking for
some dialogue around this, and seeking some new contributors, perhaps.

Fedora Weekly News is a very important vehicle for letting both the Fedora community and
the external Linux community, know what the happenings are with the Fedora Project.  FWN
has been around for many years and is a trusted brand that the community looks forward to
each week.

Writing for FWN is definitely a time commitment, on a weekly basis, and so its
understandable that FWN's volunteer beat writers sometimes have a hard time
contributing on that regular a basis.

But, if we don't have writers for FWN, we don't have content to produce an issue,
and the community loses the vibrant voice that they have relied on in the past.

Do you have suggestions for making FWN an easier time commitment?  Should we consider
moving FWN to a biweekly frequency for some beats that don't have enough content for a
weekly beat?

So, I would like to hear from both current beat writers to FWN, and community members that
perhaps would like to get involved as a writer for FWN.  The bar is not high for
participation.  You basically need to have:

1) Continuing interest and passion in the Fedora Project, perhaps on some particular
aspect or subproject that you'd like to write on
2) A bit of familiarity with Mediawiki tagging and conventions, and the Fedora Project
wiki Style Guide
3) A Commitment to produce a beat on more or less weekly basis

Thanks for your time and consideration! I look forward to hearing from some of you and
your ideas to make FWN a viable and vibrant media vehicle for the Fedora Project again.  

- Pascal

------
Pascal Calarco
Co-Editor, Fedora Weekly News 
Fedora Ambassador, Ontario, Canada

[Arif Tri Waluyo]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Pascal Calarco <pvcalarco(a)uwaterloo.ca&gt;wrote:

>  Hi folks -
>
>  We are more than a month since we have had enough content for another issue
>  of FWN, and so I thought I would post openly to the News, Ambassadors, and
>  Marketing lists, asking for some dialogue around this, and seeking some new
>  contributors, perhaps.
>
>  Fedora Weekly News is a very important vehicle for letting both the Fedora
>  community and the external Linux community, know what the happenings are
>  with the Fedora Project.  FWN has been around for many years and is a
>  trusted brand that the community looks forward to each week.
>
>  Writing for FWN is definitely a time commitment, on a weekly basis, and so
>  its understandable that FWN's volunteer beat writers sometimes have a hard
>  time contributing on that regular a basis.
>
>  But, if we don't have writers for FWN, we don't have content to produce an
>  issue, and the community loses the vibrant voice that they have relied on in
>  the past.
>
>  Do you have suggestions for making FWN an easier time commitment?  Should
>  we consider moving FWN to a biweekly frequency for some beats that don't
>  have enough content for a weekly beat?
>
>  So, I would like to hear from both current beat writers to FWN, and
>  community members that perhaps would like to get involved as a writer for
>  FWN.  The bar is not high for participation.  You basically need to have:
>
>  1) Continuing interest and passion in the Fedora Project, perhaps on some
>  particular aspect or subproject that you'd like to write on
>  2) A bit of familiarity with Mediawiki tagging and conventions, and the
>  Fedora Project wiki Style Guide
>  3) A Commitment to produce a beat on more or less weekly basis
>
>  Thanks for your time and consideration! I look forward to hearing from some
>  of you and your ideas to make FWN a viable and vibrant media vehicle for the
>  Fedora Project again.
>
>  - Pascal
>
>  ------
>  Pascal Calarco
>  Co-Editor, Fedora Weekly News
>  Fedora Ambassador, Ontario, Canada
>  --
>  ambassadors mailing list
>  ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors
>  
I believe that our strength is in the community. I am also concerned to
see it all, we do have to admit it was difficult circumstances. That
way we know what we should do.
In my opinion, FWN should still be weekly, why: in a week there are
actually a lothappening in Fedora that we can say
in FWN. Adding one or two new categories Iguess it does not matter. I am
interested to participate in FWN. But what can I do,what I should know in
advance in order to be a good contributor?.
Thank you.

[Buddhike Kurera]

Hello Pascal,

FAm beat is updated for the FWN release #287

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Beats/Ambassadors

thanks.

-- 
Regards,
*Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera(bckurera)*
Fedora Ambassador Sri Lanka
Event Liaison - Design Team

*Email*: bckurera(a)fedoraproject.org | *IRC*: bckurera
*
*

[Antonio Trande]

I wish answer you with another questions:

- "How to have been select the news for FWN until now ?"
- "Depending to what criterion ?"



2011/10/24 Pascal Calarco <pvcalarco(a)uwaterloo.ca&gt;

>  Hi folks -
>
>  We are more than a month since we have had enough content for another issue
>  of FWN, and so I thought I would post openly to the News, Ambassadors, and
>  Marketing lists, asking for some dialogue around this, and seeking some new
>  contributors, perhaps.
>
>  Fedora Weekly News is a very important vehicle for letting both the Fedora
>  community and the external Linux community, know what the happenings are
>  with the Fedora Project.  FWN has been around for many years and is a
>  trusted brand that the community looks forward to each week.
>
>  Writing for FWN is definitely a time commitment, on a weekly basis, and so
>  its understandable that FWN's volunteer beat writers sometimes have a hard
>  time contributing on that regular a basis.
>
>  But, if we don't have writers for FWN, we don't have content to produce an
>  issue, and the community loses the vibrant voice that they have relied on in
>  the past.
>
>  Do you have suggestions for making FWN an easier time commitment?  Should
>  we consider moving FWN to a biweekly frequency for some beats that don't
>  have enough content for a weekly beat?
>
>  So, I would like to hear from both current beat writers to FWN, and
>  community members that perhaps would like to get involved as a writer for
>  FWN.  The bar is not high for participation.  You basically need to have:
>
>  1) Continuing interest and passion in the Fedora Project, perhaps on some
>  particular aspect or subproject that you'd like to write on
>  2) A bit of familiarity with Mediawiki tagging and conventions, and the
>  Fedora Project wiki Style Guide
>  3) A Commitment to produce a beat on more or less weekly basis
>
>  Thanks for your time and consideration! I look forward to hearing from some
>  of you and your ideas to make FWN a viable and vibrant media vehicle for the
>  Fedora Project again.
>
>  - Pascal
>
>  ------
>  Pascal Calarco
>  Co-Editor, Fedora Weekly News
>  Fedora Ambassador, Ontario, Canada
>  --
>  ambassadors mailing list
>  ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors
>  


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[Buddhike Kurera]

Hello Arifiauo,

If you are interested in joining with the FWN team please follow the
following link.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join

and then read the following section, that will give you the idea of what and
how to do.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Beats#Contribute

And then to see what and how FWN has been released you can follow following
links,

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Archive

The latest FWN version can be found at

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/LatestIssue

See you
-- 
Regards,
*Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera(bckurera)*
Fedora Ambassador Sri Lanka
Event Liaison - Design Team

*Email*: bckurera(a)fedoraproject.org | *IRC*: bckurera
*
*

[Richard Vijay]

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Beats/Ambassadors Ambassadors Beat is
Published and Edited to include messages till 24th October 2011.
Thanks for Reminder Pascal.
Good Work *Buddhike *


Thanks and regards
Richard Vijay
Ambassador & Beats Editor
IRC: fedora_richie
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On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Pascal Calarco <pvcalarco(a)uwaterloo.ca&gt;wrote:

>  Hi folks -
>
>  We are more than a month since we have had enough content for another issue
>  of FWN, and so I thought I would post openly to the News, Ambassadors, and
>  Marketing lists, asking for some dialogue around this, and seeking some new
>  contributors, perhaps.
>
>  Fedora Weekly News is a very important vehicle for letting both the Fedora
>  community and the external Linux community, know what the happenings are
>  with the Fedora Project.  FWN has been around for many years and is a
>  trusted brand that the community looks forward to each week.
>
>  Writing for FWN is definitely a time commitment, on a weekly basis, and so
>  its understandable that FWN's volunteer beat writers sometimes have a hard
>  time contributing on that regular a basis.
>
>  But, if we don't have writers for FWN, we don't have content to produce an
>  issue, and the community loses the vibrant voice that they have relied on in
>  the past.
>
>  Do you have suggestions for making FWN an easier time commitment?  Should
>  we consider moving FWN to a biweekly frequency for some beats that don't
>  have enough content for a weekly beat?
>
>  So, I would like to hear from both current beat writers to FWN, and
>  community members that perhaps would like to get involved as a writer for
>  FWN.  The bar is not high for participation.  You basically need to have:
>
>  1) Continuing interest and passion in the Fedora Project, perhaps on some
>  particular aspect or subproject that you'd like to write on
>  2) A bit of familiarity with Mediawiki tagging and conventions, and the
>  Fedora Project wiki Style Guide
>  3) A Commitment to produce a beat on more or less weekly basis
>
>  Thanks for your time and consideration! I look forward to hearing from some
>  of you and your ideas to make FWN a viable and vibrant media vehicle for the
>  Fedora Project again.
>
>  - Pascal
>
>  ------
>  Pascal Calarco
>  Co-Editor, Fedora Weekly News
>  Fedora Ambassador, Ontario, Canada
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