Re: FWN: Announcement Beat
On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 09:49 -0400, Pascal Calarco wrote:
On 03/22/2010 09:35 AM, Rashadul Islam wrote:
> Dear Editors:
>
> The announcement beat will be updated within 36 hours from now.
> Please hold the announcements.
>
>
> Thanking you,
>
> Rashadul Islam
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Hi Rashadul and FWN Team --
The beats are usually submitted by sometime before about 18:00 UTC on
Mondays, and usually what beat writers do is if they can't get a beat
in by then, we skip that week and hold for the following week.
As of right now, we only have two beats in, Planet and Security
Advisories.
Are there other writers who also need more time? Larry, Adam W.,
Neville, Ryan, what are your plans for this issue? We have a couple
choices:
I'm about half-way done, was planning to get it in within an hour or
two.
1) Change FWN release date to be Tuesday or Wednesday this week only
2) Change FWN release date to be Tuesday or Wednesday permanently, to
give people more time at the beginning of the week to complete their
beats
3) Skip this next issue if we do not have enough content to warrant an
issue
4) Move to a biweekly format (once every two weeks), coming out on
either Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday
I'd suggest that I have noted a couple trends over the past year or
so:
1) some writers are finding it hard to sustain a weekly time
commitment to produce a beat
2) it is hard to attract new beat writers because of the time
commitment
3) there is often not enough content in some beats to warrant a weekly
beat
I am also cross-posting this to the Marketing list as folks there
might have some useful ideas. What would be the impact, do you think,
of FWN moving to a bi-weekly frequency? Thanks for everyone's
thoughts!
I'm not really sure, I think it usually winds up being pretty long at a
weekly format. Weekly works well for QA stuff as that's our schedule. So
personally I'm quite happy with the current setup.
For this week in particular, I can go with today or tomorrow, doesn't
really matter.
--
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