[magazine] [Minutes] [2017-07-06] Getting ready for release week!

[Justin W. Flory]

Hey all,

This week's Magazine meeting just came to a close. We went ahead and
hashed out our publishing schedule, generally, for the next week:

* Fri, July 07: "Clustered computing on Fedora with Minikube"
* Mon, July 10: "Introducing the Python Classroom Lab"
  - Or possibly: "Taking smart backups with Duplicity"
* Tue, July 11: F26 announcement, "Upgrading Fedora 25 to Fedora 26"
* Wed, July 12: TBD (can be PyLab if Duplicity goes on Monday)

Thanks everyone for coming out today, and see you next week!


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Meeting ended Thu Jul  6 22:10:50 2017 UTC.
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https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2017-07-06/magazine.2017...
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#fedora-meeting: Magazine editorial board
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Meeting started by stickster at 21:00:05 UTC. The full logs are
available at
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2017-07-06/magazine.2017...
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Meeting summary
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* Roll call  (stickster, 21:00:07)

* Last week's stats  (stickster, 21:04:10)
  * Week of Jun 26 = 40.6K views, down slightly from week before and
    continuing lower trend but this is fairly normal for summer
    (stickster, 21:05:12)
  * June ~199.1K views, vs. May 217.1K, April 226.5K... again, summer is
    always slower. Note these numbers are up almost 50% for Apr/May y/y;
    June is not but that was a release month in 2016  (stickster,
    21:06:49)

* Release info  (stickster, 21:07:55)
  * F26 GA is *go* for Tue Jul 11  (stickster, 21:08:04)
  * stickster reminded folks in the readiness meeting that we expect a
    draft of the announcement in the Magazine in advance, and stickster
    can be ready to push the Publish button when ready  (stickster,
    21:08:41)
  * ACTION: jwf will write customary upgrade article  (stickster,
    21:09:17)
  * ACTION: ryanlerch capture f25-26 upgrade picture from gnome-software
    (stickster, 21:14:10)
  * ACTION: ryanlerch to do featured image for upgrade article too
    (ryanlerch, 21:14:55)
  * ACTION: ryanlerch to do featured image for release annoucnement
    (ryanlerch, 21:14:56)
  * IDEA: For upgrade article, linking back internally to the
    forthcoming backup series (if ready by release day)  (jwf, 21:17:09)

* Interjection by Yr. Humble Servant  (stickster, 21:19:47)
  * stickster will be offline from basically the next hour until Sunday
    evening, mostly without any computer access  (stickster, 21:20:19)

* Pending review  (stickster, 21:21:26)
  * --- All the JWF Articles(tm) ---  (stickster, 21:21:35)
  * AGREED: Kubernetes #2 out tomorrow (Fri Jul 07)  (stickster,
    21:29:57)

* Drafts  (stickster, 21:30:08)
  * LINK:

https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_t...
    (stickster, 21:30:13)
  * --- backup articles ---  (stickster, 21:30:48)
  * ACTION: jwf contact Link to see if he'll give go-ahead for backup
    article #1 on Monday July 10  (stickster, 21:33:06)
  * --- Python Classroom Lab ---  (stickster, 21:34:00)
  * LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=17958&preview=1&_ppp=1a8c079676
    (stickster, 21:34:02)
  * AGREED: tentatively schedule Python Classroom Lab post for Wed Jul
    12 (if we get backup #1 out Mon Jul 10); otherwise it could go out
    Mon Jul 10 if desired  (stickster, 21:37:32)

* Pitches  (stickster, 21:38:02)
  * LINK:

https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=pitch&post_t...
    (stickster, 21:38:03)
  * --- Smartcards for DoD sites ---  (stickster, 21:38:18)
  * LINK: https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=17967&preview=true   (stickster,
    21:38:22)
  * AGREED: khris will begin writing first draft of smartcard + Fedora
    how-to article and aim to keep it general for other smartcard tools
    / libraries; ETA for a first draft is Wednesday  (jwf, 22:00:40)

* Publishing schedule  (jwf, 22:02:01)
  * AGREED: PUBLISHING SCHEDULE: Fri, July 7: Kubernetes pt. 2; Mon,
    July 10: Backups pt.1 / Python Classroom Lab; Tue, July 11: F26
    announcement, F25=>F26 upgrade article; Wed, July 12: Python
    Classroom Lab (if backups pt.1 on Monday)  (jwf, 22:05:40)

* Open floor  (jwf, 22:06:13)
  * ACTION: ryanlerch / stickster Recycle last week's featured image for
    "Clustered computing on Fedora with Minikube", schedule article for
    tomorrow once image is added  (jwf, 22:10:12)

Meeting ended at 22:10:50 UTC.




Action Items
------------
* jwf will write customary upgrade article
* ryanlerch capture f25-26 upgrade picture from gnome-software
* ryanlerch to do featured image for upgrade article too
* ryanlerch to do featured image for release annoucnement
* jwf contact Link to see if he'll give go-ahead for backup article #1
  on Monday July 10
* ryanlerch / stickster Recycle last week's featured image for
  "Clustered computing on Fedora with Minikube", schedule article for
  tomorrow once image is added




Action Items, by person
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* jwf
  * jwf will write customary upgrade article
  * jwf contact Link to see if he'll give go-ahead for backup article #1
    on Monday July 10
* ryanlerch
  * ryanlerch capture f25-26 upgrade picture from gnome-software
  * ryanlerch to do featured image for upgrade article too
  * ryanlerch to do featured image for release annoucnement
  * ryanlerch / stickster Recycle last week's featured image for
    "Clustered computing on Fedora with Minikube", schedule article for
    tomorrow once image is added
* stickster
  * ryanlerch / stickster Recycle last week's featured image for
    "Clustered computing on Fedora with Minikube", schedule article for
    tomorrow once image is added
* **UNASSIGNED**
  * (none)




People Present (lines said)
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* stickster (81)
* jwf (81)
* ryanlerch (31)
* khris (15)
* zodbot (10)
* sbrady1[m] (4)
* kthebyrd (2)
* mattdm (2)




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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
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