Regarding FWN

[Pascal Calarco]

Hi Buddhike --

Thanks for your leadership on this!  I am glad you are willing to help with FWN's leadership.

The Fedora Insight group meets Tuesdays at 20:00 UTC, and more information is available here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Insight 

A good place to start would be to try to get someone to meet with the Insight group at their meeting.  I am cc'ing the logistics list, as that is where Insight members discuss the project.  I know this is pretty inconvenient to you, so perhaps someone else from the FWN team can attend.

I've just looked at the documentation for publishing FWN to Insight, and it needs updating; it still has references to Zikula, a previous platform we were working on prior to adopting Drupal, which is our main technology platform for Insight.  I will carve out some time this Friday to update this page so that it is current:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight_FWN_Workflow 

The biggest challenge for getting FWN out the door right now is not technical really, it is finding enough writers who can commit to producing an FWN beat every week.  This of course has been a perennial concern, but it has been increasingly an issue.  For the past year or so, I have been writing three FWN beats plus doing the editing and distribution.  Ideally the editor should only have to do the editing.  Besides the Fedora Insight and FWN teams, I would suggest talking to a variety of places in the Fedora leadership --FAmSCo, Robyn Bergeron (FPL), Fedora Marketing (which is also in need of rebuilding), perhaps others, to see if there are volunteers that can be enticed to produce FWN or Insight content on a regular basis.

I will commit to being able to produce one beat on a regular basis, but I really don't have time to do more for FWN at this time, unfortunately.  Plug me in where you need me, so that others have more choice of what beats they'd prefer to cover.

Let me know if you have follow up questions, I'm happy to help with this transition.  Thank you, Buddhike!

  - pascal 

-----Original Message-----
From: bckurera at gmail.com [mailto:bckurera at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Buddhike Kurera
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 6:21 AM
To: Pascal Calarco
Subject: Regarding FWN

Dear Pascal,

Can you please provide me information on the relationship with FWN and insight?

What has been done and what is to be done. I am trying to get FWN back again seems like nobody is following the announcement for the meeting.

If I have info about things did so far I can start from the end.

thanks and miss your support !!

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Regards,
Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera(bckurera)
Fedora Ambassador Sri Lanka
Event Liaison - Design Team

Email: bckurera at fedoraproject.org | IRC: bckurera