[Magazine] Join Day Discussion

[Justin W. Flory]

Hey all,

This topic stems from an ongoing discussion in the Join SIG mailing list 
[1] and our Magazine meeting tonight [2] about trying to organize "Join 
Days" for the different teams in Fedora.

We thought that the Marketing team might be one of the best groups to 
try putting together a Join Day, particularly with the Magazine. The 
purpose of a Magazine Join Day would be to try to gain new contributors 
to the Magazine efforts, not only as writers, but preferably as editors 
too. On that note...

One of the main concerns that was mentioned in the meeting was 
attracting more contributors who have trouble with English, where they 
might have a quality idea, but it increases the work load on the editors 
to clean and polish up articles to publication-worthy status. I think 
Paul best summed up the ideal situation with this line:

"We'd love to have a dozen writers and a dozen editors who can all
     pitch in on an article every month, as opposed to a few people
     doing them once or more a week."

With that in mind, if we do a Join Day, we will likely want to target 
both people interested in being writers and/or editors.

I'm a little pinched for time so I wanted to get this out before I head 
out for the next few hours, but hopefully Gabri or Ankur can fill in any 
major holes I missed.

Thanks!

[1] 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fedora-join/2015-October/000385.ht...
[2] 
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2015-10-22/magazine.2015-10...

[Gabriele Trombini]

Il giorno gio, 22/10/2015 alle 18.13 -0400, Justin W. Flory ha scritto:
> Hey all,

Hello Justin,

[cut]
> One of the main concerns that was mentioned in the meeting was 
> attracting more contributors who have trouble with English, where
> they 
> might have a quality idea, but it increases the work load on the
> editors 
> to clean and polish up articles to publication-worthy status. I think
> Paul best summed up the ideal situation with this line:

[cut]

Yes, that would be good; English native proofreaders is one of the
solution, maybe the best. Is it the case to think about a category
specifically for this role?
Someone could have the desire to only work in the posts still to
publish, without any other responsibility.
> With that in mind, if we do a Join Day, we will likely want to target
> both people interested in being writers and/or editors.

In order to get familiar with some terms, I advise this pages [1][2]
> I'm a little pinched for time so I wanted to get this out before I
> head 
> out for the next few hours, but hopefully Gabri or Ankur can fill in
> any 
> major holes I missed.

Target is really clear, no worries about missed holes. We only have to
wait for any suggestion and set-up a proper workflow.

I think that this join-day could bring benefits also to the rest of
Mktg (that is a candidate for the next).
> Thanks!

Thanks Justin, Paul and Ryan.

Gabri

[1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Magazine/Howtopost
[2]http://fedoramagazine.org/publishing-workflow/

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 09:54:26AM +0200, Gabriele Trombini wrote:
> Il giorno gio, 22/10/2015 alle 18.13 -0400, Justin W. Flory ha scritto:
> > Hey all,
>
> Hello Justin,
>
> [cut]
> > One of the main concerns that was mentioned in the meeting was 
> > attracting more contributors who have trouble with English, where
> > they 
> > might have a quality idea, but it increases the work load on the
> > editors 
> > to clean and polish up articles to publication-worthy status. I think
> > Paul best summed up the ideal situation with this line:
>
> [cut]
>
> Yes, that would be good; English native proofreaders is one of the
> solution, maybe the best. Is it the case to think about a category
> specifically for this role?
> Someone could have the desire to only work in the posts still to
> publish, without any other responsibility.

I'd also like to have people do or show something that demonstrates
they can do what's needed here.  It might be simple like having them
do first-line editing on an article.  Or looking at some writing they
have done themselves.  That way we know we are not creating a
situation where editors have to frequently rewrite material, and
writers know that the material they write will be honored
appropriately.
> > With that in mind, if we do a Join Day, we will likely want to target
> > both people interested in being writers and/or editors.
>
> In order to get familiar with some terms, I advise this pages [1][2]
> > I'm a little pinched for time so I wanted to get this out before I
> > head 
> > out for the next few hours, but hopefully Gabri or Ankur can fill in
> > any 
> > major holes I missed.
>
> Target is really clear, no worries about missed holes. We only have to
> wait for any suggestion and set-up a proper workflow.
>
> I think that this join-day could bring benefits also to the rest of
> Mktg (that is a candidate for the next).
> > Thanks!
>
> Thanks Justin, Paul and Ryan.
>
> Gabri
>
> [1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Magazine/Howtopost
> [2]http://fedoramagazine.org/publishing-workflow/
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