Hi all, A potential GNOME News redesign [1] has been brought up on this list a few times in the past. We really need a better channel for distributing and generating news about GNOME, something that can handle original content as well as content that is syndicated.
Christy Eller has recently stepped up to the plate to create a better GNOME news platform for us, and she has made some good progress. Christy has been working on a new Wordpress-based web site. The idea is that it will eventually be hosted at news.gnome.org. The new site is intended to do several things: 1. Aggregate news feeds just like the current news site does 2. Carry a stream of original news posts about GNOME (ie. be a news blog) 3. Provide an easy way for new contributors to get involved in writing GNOME news 4. Be a vibrant and engaging place The new site will host a stream of news posts that can be subscribed to (initially through rss/atom), as well as facilities for contributing and generating content. Christy already has a test site [2] that she is working on. A key aim for the new site is to consolidate and maximise the return we get on our existing news efforts. We are already creating a regular stream of stories on gnome.org [3], but we get little back from that effort in the way of new contributors or subscribers to GNOME news. With the new site, we can generate our news at a single location and then feed it to other sites. The news section on the gnome.org homepage can come direct from news.gnome.org, for instance. However, there are some outstanding questions that still need answering: * Should we have a comments system on the new site? * Where should official announcements, such as press releases, be made? Do they have to be hosted on gnome.org in order to look official, or could they go on news.gnome.org, for example? * What does this mean for the role of GNOME Journal, if anything? Please let us know what your thoughts are on these plans. It would also be helpful to hear ideas for these outstanding questions. Allan [1] https://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/NewsRedesign [2] http://news-test.gnome.org/ [3] http://www.gnome.org/news/ -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list