The holiday period in December will be here before you know it. The
Magazine has a lot of staff who are planning vacation and PTO time
over that period. That doesn't mean everyone will automatically
disappear. But in my case, I tend to spend my vacation away from the
keyboard and doing other things. I bet some others do likewise. The
hardest period to cover will be December 23 - January 1 -- which is 5
slots in our normal schedule. So we should figure out how to pre-fill
our schedule and not have the Magazine "run dry" for several weeks.
Here are some ideas for how we could accomplish this. But we need
other ideas and content, too. Please contribute your ideas and we can
discuss in the next meeting (Wednesday 1300 UTC, 8:00am EST, 2:00pm
CEST in IRC Freenode #fedora-meeting).
(1) If you're a new writer we would still love to have your
contributions early, so we could schedule articles to publish over the
holidays.
(2) We could make a "best of 2019" series that would run for 3-5 slots
on the Magazine. Last year I think we chose articles that represented
for developers, sysadmins, and user tools. We could use those or even
add a couple categories. We could do a year-end wrap up as well.
(3) We could resurrect a few articles to refresh and repost. You can
reset a published article to scheduled, and it will be re-posted on
the new date. If we do this, the article should be checked for
accuracy and updated as needed to reflect Fedora 31 reality.
(4) We could get a bunch of like-minded writers to participate in a
new series that we finish and schedule to run over the holidays.
Other ideas are welcome.
--
Paul