Hi,
the current newsletter is more a press review but having an editorial
part would definitely improve the newsletter.
This would imply that we need a team which writes and reviews the
articles. Regarding images and screenshots, they are fine for magazines
but a newsletter should be slim as possible.
The marketing alias does not accept HTML emails, so I am not able to
send my proposal to this alias and I do not have a publicly access web
page available. If somebody has a page available, I will be happy to
send him my proposal.
However we have setup a survey where everyone express their opinion
regarding HTML and simple text.
http://surveys.services.openoffice.org/surveys/index.php?sid=88144&lang=en
Here is a pointer to the simple text version of the newsletter.
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=399
Regards
Kay
Alexandro Colorado wrote:
I have mixed feelings about this idea, for example my browser crashed
when I tried to open the second link. Granted I am on a low resource
EEEPC but usually newsletters are for content and not much shine thats
why we preffer text NL than HTML NL.
However i do remember a proposal by a polish magazine about creating
an OpenOffice.org magazine, the concept fade away but having the
resource to come up wiht an OOo E-zine like the Mozilal E-Zine, Ubuntu
E-Zine (Fullcircle), and even a REd Hat E-zine too
(http://magazine.redhat.com/).
I am curious to know what this e-zine put in and how come they can
come up with so much content. But if there are the team dedicated to
bring this through I am all forward.
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:24 PM, leif<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
I wonder who the target audience for the newsletter is. Is it the community,
the press or even a third group?
Honestly, I find the newsletter boring. The text based form is fine inside
the community, but if the target is to reach new users or the press I think
it needs to be shined up. People are expecting some more marketing like.
Some glitter and gold. The fine stories could be wrapped up in some nicer
paper I think.
Please don't take this as anything other than positive critics. A proposal
for future work. I read the newsletter every months and I think that the
journalistic and editorial work is fine.
Please have a look at the Danish newsletter. This is how it looked about one
year ago: http://da.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=nyhedsbrev&msgNo=53
And then see the latest issue:
http://issuu.com/lodahl/docs/2009september?viewMode=magazine&mode=embed
Okay, I don't expect that you can understand the content but different
layout should be understandable.
Please discuss this in the future. We could call it 'Newsletter
Renaissance'.
best regards,
Leif Lodahl
Danish lang-coord
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