8:35 a.m.
Dear Editors:
The announcement beat will be updated within 36 hours from now. Please hold
the announcements.
Thanking you,
Rashadul Islam
irashadul(a)gmail.com
rislam(a)irc.freenode.net
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8:49 a.m.
New subject: FWN: Announcement Beat
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
irashadul(a)gmail.com <mailto:irashadul@gmail.com>
rislam(a)irc.freenode.net <mailto:rislam@irc.freenode.net>
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url: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RashadulIslam
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:
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!
- pascal
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Editor, Fedora Weekly News
Fedora Ambassador, Indiana, USA
9:03 a.m.
New subject: FWN: Announcement Beat
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Pascal Calarco <pcalarco(a)nd.edu> wrote:
<snip>
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:
1) Change FWN release date to be Tuesday or Wednesday this week only
<snip>
I have been busy with some family issues. I will go with move release
date this week only.
Best regards
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9:07 a.m.
New subject: FWN: Announcement Beat
On 03/22/2010 03:49 PM, Pascal Calarco wrote:
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:
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
Or we can go with what content we have available.
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!
Covering the Design Team I had weeks with nothing to report (like this
week) and weeks when I find hard to select only 3 topics for coverage. A
weekly beat seem a good average...
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11:44 a.m.
New subject: 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
> irashadul(a)gmail.com
> rislam(a)irc.freenode.net
> GPG KEY: 5557BFAC
> Fingerprint=CFB7 CAEC 157A 308A F9CE CE00 3620 8084 5557 BFAC
> url: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RashadulIslam
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.
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
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1:06 p.m.
New subject: FWN: Announcement Beat
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Pascal Calarco <pcalarco(a)nd.edu> wrote:
Are there other writers who also need more time? Larry, Adam W., Neville,
Ryan, what are your plans for this issue?
Yes, but I won't be able to file Ambassadors for a couple of hours.
We have a couple choices:
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
I vote for this. A lot of times Ambassdors have weekend events that get
reported on early in the week and, in many cases, the Monday deadline
doesn't accommodate that.
So I'd prefer a later release date to get the weekend events in.
Larry Cafiero
1:55 p.m.
New subject: FWN: Announcement Beat
Larry and Nicu, thanks for your thoughts on this.
Rashadul, would this be better for your schedule as well?
If this is better for all across the board, let's push the deadline for
this week's issue to Wednesday by 20:00 UTC, and I will announce that
we'll be changing the day that FWN comes out to be Wednesdays.
- pascal
On 03/22/2010 02:06 PM, Larry Cafiero wrote:
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Pascal Calarco <pcalarco(a)nd.edu
<mailto:pcalarco@nd.edu>> wrote:
Are there other writers who also need more time? Larry, Adam W.,
Neville, Ryan, what are your plans for this issue?
Yes, but I won't be able to file Ambassadors for a couple of hours.
We have a couple choices:
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
I vote for this. A lot of times Ambassdors have weekend events that
get reported on early in the week and, in many cases, the Monday
deadline doesn't accommodate that.
So I'd prefer a later release date to get the weekend events in.
Larry Cafiero
4:35 p.m.
New subject: FWN: Announcement Beat
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Pascal Calarco <pcalarco(a)nd.edu> wrote:
If this is better for all across the board, let's push the
deadline for
this week's issue to Wednesday by 20:00 UTC, and I will announce that we'll
be changing the day that FWN comes out to be Wednesdays.
Yes. Yes yes yes.
Larry Cafiero
2 p.m.
New subject: FWN: Announcement Beat
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Larry Cafiero <larry.cafiero(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Pascal Calarco
<pcalarco(a)nd.edu> wrote:
>
> Are there other writers who also need more time? Larry, Adam W., Neville,
> Ryan, what are your plans for this issue?
Yes, but I won't be able to file Ambassadors for a couple of hours.
<snip>
Marketing Beat is completed
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2 p.m.
New subject: FWN: Announcement Beat
On 03/22/2010 03:00 PM, Neville A. Cross wrote:
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Larry
Cafiero<larry.cafiero(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Pascal Calarco<pcalarco(a)nd.edu> wrote:
>
>> Are there other writers who also need more time? Larry, Adam W., Neville,
>> Ryan, what are your plans for this issue?
>>
> Yes, but I won't be able to file Ambassadors for a couple of hours.
>
>
>
<snip>
Marketing Beat is completed.
Thank you, Neville!
- pascal
4:06 p.m.
New subject: FWN: Announcement Beat
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Pascal Calarco <pcalarco(a)nd.edu> wrote:
On 03/22/2010 03:00 PM, Neville A. Cross wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Larry Cafiero<larry.cafiero(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Pascal Calarco<pcalarco(a)nd.edu>
wrote:
>>
>>> Are there other writers who also need more time? Larry, Adam W.,
Neville,
>>> Ryan, what are your plans for this issue?
>>>
>> Yes, but I won't be able to file Ambassadors for a couple of hours.
>>
>>
>>
> <snip>
>
> Marketing Beat is completed.
>
Thank you, Neville!
- pascal
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Thank you for the reply. It would always be great to have the FWN
Announcement each week even though the contents are less.
FWN is unique publication by Fedora and its Community, so it would be always
wise not to change the classical tradition of the FWN release
Schedule(bi-weekly).
Monday is one of my busy days of the week, and most of the time I miss to
update the announcement beat on time for that.
If would be great if you all agree the deadline for this week's issue to
Wednesday by 20:00 UTC.
Thanking you,
Rashadul Islam
3:12 p.m.
New subject: FWN: Announcement Beat
On Mon 22 March 2010 6:49:39 am Pascal Calarco wrote:
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:
As usual, there is not much happening in the KDE-sphere this week, and I've
been a little out of touch with email until today (my apologies; my mail
server had a disk array fail) and am just catching up.
Ryan
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