anyone got any articles in the wings?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 03:06:07PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 12:03:29PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > I've no qualms about having this kind of opinion piece.  I did want to
> > say that I think Fedora Magazine on the whole should retain a
> > user-centric slant, and not get too focused on internal community
> > issues.
> 
> Hmmm. I agree, but... we also need a central focus for running things that
> are about internal community issues. I am working on some stuff about
> project objectives (as part of the new fedora council), and I can do it as
> mailing list posts but I'd really like it to be more... blog posty, with
> discussion to follow. 
> 
> I can set up my own personal FPL blog, but... I'm historically terrible at
> that whereas it turns out to be easier for me to be _part_ of something, if
> that makes sense. And, it would kind of be nice to have a central place for
> things which _are_ more internal. The Fedora Council seems like a good
> example — a general overview makes a good user-focused article, but details
> beyond that are probably more interesting to contributors, and the elections
> articles (like the interviews we were talking about) are _meant_ for
> contributors.
> 
> I know Ryan was talking about wanting to reduce the number of categories.
> What if we made it just two, for user-focused and contributor-focused
> articles? Maybe keeping 5tFTW as a separate thing which covers both — or,
> possibly splitting that into two separate posts, one for each category (and
> probably removing the "5" from both, because speaking from experience 10
> total would be crazy).

I like this idea.  Let me see if I understand it: If you hit the site
blindly (http://fm.o) you'd see the general user feed (e.g. "For
Users").  There'd be some way to choose "For Contributors" and you
could see that stuff too.  Is that accurate?

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