"Writing a Community Blog article": Request for comments

[Justin W. Flory]

Quick Summary
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1) Outline for guidelines to write an article drafted, comments needed
2) Minimum requirements: Categories, tags, one image?
3) Minimum publish requirements: Three +1's?
4) Deadline: Monday (?)
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Hey all,

I drafted up the proposed "outline" of how a Fedora contributor can get 
started with writing their own article for the Community Blog. Once we 
get general approval on the process, I think this belongs on the header 
bar to help gain a larger amount of views for people wanting to 
contribute. It's definitely info that should be out in the open!

https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/?page_id=221&preview=true

Some of the things that do need to be discussed:

1) Basic requirements: Did we agree on these?

I thought I recalled us agreeing on a few basic requirements for 
articles either in IRC or previous mailings, but I wanted to be clear. I 
defined the basic requirements needed to publish as: (1) properly 
categorized, (2) properly tagged, and (3) must have one image. I feel 
like these are fairly basic requirements, but I wanted to confirm this 
before slating it out as "fully official".

2) Minimum requirement to publish

This was something Remy and I (briefly) discussed on IRC and wanted to 
poll the list about. Before a contributor should be able to publish 
their article, we thought that a minimum requirement of three "+1's" 
would be a good bar to set (similar to the Bodhi karma voting process). 
Depending on the activity level of the list, I think this is a good 
amount and if an article is ever "urgency of the moment", a regular 
contributor should have the authority to okay publishing without waiting 
for a 100% vote.

Curious to know what the rest of your thoughts are on this! I definitely 
think we should try to get this page live by Sunday or Monday, so next 
week's visitors will have a definitive way to help get involved. ;)

[Remy DeCausemaker]

Love the quick summary at the top! Moar of that plz :)

Responses inline below,
--RemyD.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Justin W. Flory  wrote:
> Quick Summary
> Outline for guidelines to write an article drafted, comments needed

I like the "interconnectedness" line in there. Perhaps we can include the
CommOps tagline "Heat and Light" in there nearby, with a link to the
CommOps wiki page?
> Minimum requirements: Categories, tags, one image?

+1, +1, +1

You can also mention that first-time or early contributors will have help
from the CommOps team in identifying and selecting categories and tags.

We don't have it hooked up (yet) but eventually we're going to have JetPack
fully integrated so that we're posting to the various Fedora Social Media
channels auto-magically too! That is a BIG benefit that can be mentioned
somewhere.

3) Minimum publish requirements: Three +1's?
>

+1. I like it, but I'm also the co-proposer of this policy, so I'd be
interested to hear other folks' thoughts.
> Deadline: Monday (?)

WFM
> ========================================================================
>
> Hey all,
>
> I drafted up the proposed "outline" of how a Fedora contributor can get
> started with writing their own article for the Community Blog. Once we get
> general approval on the process, I think this belongs on the header bar to
> help gain a larger amount of views for people wanting to contribute. It's
> definitely info that should be out in the open!
> https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/?page_id=221&preview=true
>
> Some of the things that do need to be discussed:
> 1) Basic requirements: Did we agree on these?
>
> I thought I recalled us agreeing on a few basic requirements for articles
> either in IRC or previous mailings, but I wanted to be clear. I defined the
> basic requirements needed to publish as: (1) properly categorized, (2)
> properly tagged, and (3) must have one image. I feel like these are fairly
> basic requirements, but I wanted to confirm this before slating it out as
> "fully official".
> 2) Minimum requirement to publish
>
> This was something Remy and I (briefly) discussed on IRC and wanted to
> poll the list about. Before a contributor should be able to publish their
> article, we thought that a minimum requirement of three "+1's" would be a
> good bar to set (similar to the Bodhi karma voting process). Depending on
> the activity level of the list, I think this is a good amount and if an
> article is ever "urgency of the moment", a regular contributor should have
> the authority to okay publishing without waiting for a 100% vote.
>
> Curious to know what the rest of your thoughts are on this! I definitely
> think we should try to get this page live by Sunday or Monday, so next
> week's visitors will have a definitive way to help get involved. ;)
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Justin W. Flory
> [e-mail]
>
> commops mailing list
> [e-mail]
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/commops

[Justin W. Flory]

On 11/13/2015 11:25 AM, Remy DeCausemaker wrote:
> 1) Outline for guidelines to write an article drafted, comments needed
>
> I like the "interconnectedness" line in there. Perhaps we can include
> the CommOps tagline "Heat and Light" in there nearby, with a link to the
> CommOps wiki page?

Added a little more to the first paragraph with a relevant link.
> 2) Minimum requirements: Categories, tags, one image?
>
> +1, +1, +1
>
> You can also mention that first-time or early contributors will have
> help from the CommOps team in identifying and selecting categories and tags.
>
> We don't have it hooked up (yet) but eventually we're going to have
> JetPack fully integrated so that we're posting to the various Fedora
> Social Media channels auto-magically too! That is a BIG benefit that can
> be mentioned somewhere.

Also just added a snippet to that step detailing that if someone needs 
help, they can contact us in our relevant locations.

Also also just added a short link towards the bottom about social media 
sharing goodness and included a link to the @FedoraCommunity Twitter.
> 4) Deadline: Monday (?)
>
>
> WFM

We'll try to aim for then to help make get this out there while people 
are still discovering and learning about the CommBlog.
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
[e-mail]