Fedora Journal?

[Dale Bewley]

On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 16:09 +0100, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> > We've just put up this page, and would invite you to start editing it
> > and add your own requirements to it? I'm going to drop a similar
> > message to the swanky new logistics list shortly, to get as many
> > interested parties involved. I'm taking the many hands make light work
> > approach. Are people on this list who are interested in collaborating
> > also subscribed to that new list?
> >
> 
> OK - in another demonstration of my incompetence, I forgot to link the
> page!! Sigh.
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FooBar
> 
> Hopefully that will encourage some people to make a few further
> contributions to the page?

The thought of splitting each article up into a wordpress post for
instance adds some overhead doesn't sound appealing.

There's something very convenient about loading a whole wiki page into
vi with the "It's All Text" plugin. I enjoy the free form large block of
text I can spend a few days or hours working on and reordering sections
and so on.

Also, the weekly nature of FWN makes it easier to commit to. I can
imagine if contributions were expected to flow in on an ad hoc basis it
would be easy for some of us procrastinators to never get around to
posting anything.

Having whined all that, my concerns are primarily with workflow. Broader
exposure, RSS and all that stuff is good. But let's try to keep things
as simple as possible. We are still missing a writer for what I consider
a pretty important and useful beat "Developments". 

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Dale Bewley - Unix Administrator - Shields Library - UC Davis
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