News Team (and Mel) --
I attended the marketing team meeting today, and we discussed Fedora Insight, and FWN on FI[1]. I have some updates, and a request, for you.
The Docs team is currently working on getting a WYSIWYG editor packaged with Zikula for Fedora Insight, and this should be in place within the next few dates, if all goes well.
Both Dale and I have been experimenting with FWN on Fedora Insight over the last few weeks, and have identified a couple needs to help make workflow as easy as possible for adding, editing and approving content on Fedora Insight:
1) Need for an HTML-aware WYSIWYG editor within Fedora Insight; wiki markup won't work on Fedora Insight, and so we need to add references in news articles as HTML <a href="..."></a> for example. Dale has also noted[2] that it would be really useful to be able to easily reference mediawiki objects like User, Package, etc. We'll have to see how we can tailor the WYSIWYG editor with shortcuts to these, if at all.
2) Need to create subcategories under FWN; I have gone in and created news categories for each beat corresponding to the active beats we currently have.
3) Extended timeout value for Zikula so beat writers aren't logged off while they are entering news items;
Now, Fedora Insight is going to launch on October 14th, which is a Wednesday, and we hope to have the first FWN issue available on Fedora Insight the following Monday, on October 19. To be ready for this, we need to have all beat writers take some time to get into the test Zikula site and familiarize ourselves with it.
Please read over the Fedora Insight pages[3] and then establish a FAS account on the test system[4] and ask to be added to the CMS_admin group in the test FAS instance[5]
Okay, next, I'd like to have a Fedora News IRC meeting, sometime next week or the first part of the following week, prior to October 14th. I've set a Doodle poll up so we can register when we would be available to meet on IRC. When you have a chance, please look at your schedule and respond:
http://www.doodle.com/hxcyxir4uuubc73k
Okay, that's enough to get us started. Questions or comments? Thanks all!
- pascal
[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-September/msg00173... [2] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-September/msg00138... [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight#Check_it_out.21 [5] https://publictest3.fedoraproject.org/accounts