Posts from the Planet to the Magazine

[Zoltan Hoppar]

Hi,

We have been done similar in ancient times, it was callled dailypackages
what name has been taken over by myself, because the original Chris Tyler's
blog series content is dead since 2008. But still can be found some
remaining fragments at source. [1]
If you check it, you see that every post is goes around an specific theme
(Artsy Tuesday, Productive Monday, etc) , so with that if we copy the
method - we can cover every group activity, and everyone can select one
"candy" within his interest. Also if possible, I would like to add not only
news about new codes (Fedora Hosted projects), else QA testing news,
how-to's and perhaps requests too as a developers/engineers "corner" page.
Under requests I would like to see callings for tasks - Like we are looking
for xy workgroup testing, or set or write documentation, or whaterver. Also
if you add some contests, and rare stuff (1 fedora keyboard, mice,
keychain, etc) as a contest if the task is done, we can have our own Fedora
Summer of Code slowly, and more better code.

With these touches, we can achieve more active community, more feedback,
and the marketing team can be the backup for ambassadors, feedback of the
teams, and the contact with the PR.

HTH with my ideas.

Zoltan


2013/10/30 Pete Travis <lists at petetravis.com>

>
> On Oct 29, 2013 8:45 PM, "Mike Ruckman" <roshi at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:45:01 -0500
> > Joe Brockmeier <jzb at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:01:57PM +0200, Zacharias Mitzelos wrote:
> > > > Hello everyone,
> > > >
> > > > On the Monday's meeting[1] we discussed about creating a new
> > > > category and adding it in the main menu of the Fedora Magazine. In
> > > > this new category we can choose every week an article from Fedora
> > > > Planet, and publish it in the magazine as well. Roshi stepped
> > > > forward on this, and said he can choose articles from the planet
> > > >
> > > > Thoughts/flames?
> > >
> > > Don't forget comments. ;-)
> > >
> > > Quick thought: Do we have permission to republish material that
> > > appears on the Planet to the magazine? Skimming the Planet Howto I
> > > don't see that we grant permission for forklifting materials from our
> > > blog to another publication. It may seem like a triviality/formality,
> > > but it's possible that we'd annoy a contributor if we post something
> > > on the magazine without asking first.
> > >
> > > So, we plan to ask first, right?
> > >
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > > jzb
> >
> > My thoughts initially (not sure if I actually *said* anything about it
> > though) were to find some posts we liked, vote which we wanted to
> > publish for the week then contact the person who wrote it and see if
> > they minded. This might help out with people wanting to be part of
> > marketing and the magazine. Was also thinking we could get a badge made
> > for it :)
> >
>
> I like it. At first I thought "$EXPLETIVE, I hope this isn't suggesting we
> pipe the planet feed into the Magazine just to have more content!". Weekly
> features is ideal.  It wouldn't be a good idea to lean too heavily on a
> small group of bloggers though, even if their posts are consistently more
> suited to the venue.
>
> > In response to Zoltan, I think the package selection is a great idea. I
> > was actually pondering something similar. I've learned a great deal
> > from the Python Module of the Week [1] and thought it might be fun
> > (though time consuming) to do something with Fedora packages or tools -
> > like deltaisos. Those are awesome.
> >
>
> Something like "*New* Package of the Week" would be interesting too. It
> would have the side benefit of being more likely to include and involve
> newly sponsored packagers.
>
> --Pete
>
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