Re: Magazine articles.
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:00:15AM +0200, S.Kemter wrote:
Hi,
2015-08-26 23:50 GMT+02:00 Paul W. Frields <stickster(a)gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 01:25:26AM +0200, Gabriele Trombini wrote:
> > Hello guys,
> >
> > in the discussion I followed after both jzb and croberts talks at
> > Flock, came out a couple of indications about writing another kind of
> > magazine articles:
> >
> > 1) seems that short articles are more attractive than the long ones and
> > they have to arouse the curiosity, so people reading may deepen the
> > topic in a second time and more carefully.
>
> I think this depends on the topic. If you look at our stats, the best
> performing recent post was Jiří's rather long article on Firefox
> theme. I don't remember a discussion of short vs. long articles, but
> rather that *certain* long articles might not be best for the Magazine
> -- like a very long article about a highly internal-focused topic,
> like contributor statistics.
>
> > 2) there's the need to have more user/contributor focused articles
> > instead of technical explanation. People need to be part of the Project
> > and there's nothing better than writing for them.
>
> I think one thing we agreed on is that the reader we're looking to
> reach is not limited just to desktop users. Rather, we also want to
> reach users of the Cloud edition, and users of the Server edition, and
> provide useful articles for them as well.
>
> I don't think we reached a complete agreement as to contributor
> articles. But I think people did agree there were certain types of
> contributor topics that weren't appropriate for the general Magazine:
>
> * election info
> * team stats information
> * meeting minutes
>
>
when it comes to election info, that would mean i could not post the
results of the wallpaper election or didnt it mean more endless long
interviews with candidates for fesco.
The latter -- these interviews don't really hold much value for most
folks outside the core community. I think users would be interested
in seeing the nice visuals submitted or chosen for the wallpaper,
though. The last wallpaper article was fairly popular.
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