Magazine articles.

[Josef Stribny]

On 08/27/2015 02:55 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:00:15AM +0200, S.Kemter wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2015-08-26 23:50 GMT+02:00 Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 01:25:26AM +0200, Gabriele Trombini wrote:
>>>> Hello guys,
>>>>
>>>> in the discussion I followed after both jzb and croberts talks at
>>>> Flock, came out a couple of indications about writing another kind of
>>>> magazine articles:
>>>>
>>>> 1) seems that short articles are more attractive than the long ones and
>>>> they have to arouse the curiosity, so people reading may deepen the
>>>> topic in a second time and more carefully.
>>> I think this depends on the topic.  If you look at our stats, the best
>>> performing recent post was Jiří's rather long article on Firefox
>>> theme.  I don't remember a discussion of short vs. long articles, but
>>> rather that *certain* long articles might not be best for the Magazine
>>> -- like a very long article about a highly internal-focused topic,
>>> like contributor statistics.
>>>
>>>> 2) there's the need to have more user/contributor focused articles
>>>> instead of technical explanation. People need to be part of the Project
>>>> and there's nothing better than writing for them.
>>> I think one thing we agreed on is that the reader we're looking to
>>> reach is not limited just to desktop users.  Rather, we also want to
>>> reach users of the Cloud edition, and users of the Server edition, and
>>> provide useful articles for them as well.
>>>
>>> I don't think we reached a complete agreement as to contributor
>>> articles.  But I think people did agree there were certain types of
>>> contributor topics that weren't appropriate for the general Magazine:
>>>
>>> * election info
>>> * team stats information
>>> * meeting minutes
>>>
>>>
>> when it comes to election info, that would mean i could not post the
>> results of the wallpaper election or didnt it mean more endless long
>> interviews with candidates for fesco.
> The latter -- these interviews don't really hold much value for most
> folks outside the core community.  I think users would be interested
> in seeing the nice visuals submitted or chosen for the wallpaper,
> though.  The last wallpaper article was fairly popular.
>
I completely agree ^^.

J.