maybe you could put it on the trac wiki initially to form the story throughout the week so that everyone can contribute and say a set time on Sunday that info will be grabbed and posted on enlightenment.org and ml's.
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Thomas Gstädtner > <tho...@gstaedtner.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > in the "Twitter"-thread this week on the devel ML we had a discussion > > about how we could make a serious and regular "news"-section for > > E.org, not only external on twitter/facebook/etcpp. > > I already did some suggestions, but now I'd like to make it more > concrete: > > As I see it, it would be best to have the news in a kind of digest > > form, not a lot of single items (that is what the existing twitter > > feed can be used for). > > Many projects do it based on a regular date - be it weekly, monthly or > > per quarter - I think this concept would be also great for E. > > As the twitter feed contains many small things of all kind, I think > > the news on E.org should be only more relevant stuff for the users > > (not developers!) that do not want to read the mailinglists, > > twitter-feeds, and similar on a regular basis. Of course this doesn't > > mean developers should be completely left out - big stuff like bigger > > API-changes could be also announced that way (but not every trivial > > thing, that's what the SVN commit list is for). > > > > E.org currently has a news section, but it is not well maintained, or > > let's say it is only used for big announcements (it only contains big > > releases like new EFL/E snapshots, EWL releases, the SVN move and so > > on). So I think this section should be renamed to "Announcements", > > because this is what it is used for. Big Ass Announcements. > > Additionally there should be the "News" section for stuff that matters > > but isn't _that_ important. That's where I'd like to see what I said > > above. > > > > I think Weekly News would fit for E, because users have regular > > information about interesting things (and there are a lot of > > interesting things in a week or two) and it is not too much overkill > > like daily or per-item based news. If there should be a week with not > > that much changes it could be temporarily bi-weekly. > > As I said in the twitter thread: I'd be free to write this if you > > think it's useful. But even better would be if it could be more > > collaborative. So we could use the SVN, the Wiki (probably the best > > way), or if you don't want it there my personal public git (with write > > access for everyone interested in taking part) to collect all > > interesting stuff over the week and post it at Sunday evening on E.org > > and probably as digest on the E-Users ML. > > > > Here's how I imagine it: > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > > > Enlightenment Weekly News 2009/20 > > ================================= > > > > SVN News: > > --------- > > The drawer-module received initial support for composite plugins > > (http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/changeset/40644) and a winlist plugin > > (http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/changeset/40666). > > > > Sergey Semernin is working hard on E's file manager and it definitely > > pays off: > > E_fm2 now has full support for in-place renaming and custom per-directory > > backgrounds (http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/changeset/40668). > > There have been a lot more patches from him which are or are not yet in > SVN. > > > > Community News: > > --------------- > > > > Gustavo Barbieri is planning to rework the notification (libnotify) > module and > > would like to drop the shelf-gadget of the module. If this feature is > important > > to you, feel free to take part in the discussion on both mailinglists > > ("notification module: how do you use it?"). > > > > Massimiliano Calamelli started a Twitter-feed about E development. > > If you're not following the SVN commits (or probably even if) this is a > great > > source for all sort of new stuff in or around E. > > > > Inofficial chances to meet E developers: > > Raster will be on a trip through Europe between may 19th and june 9th. > > For more information check the ML ("berlin/paris/berne... who's around?") > - > > and don't forget to bring your sticks! > > Gustavo will be at Ubuntu Dev Summit in Barcelona (19-31 May). Don't miss > your > > chance to get your own SPANK SPANK shirt! > > ________________________________________________________________ > > > > Please share your opinion, > > Excellent idea! This would be good for project users and also > outsiders (I know I read gnome/kde news to keep informed about > "others"). > > As for media, I'd say wiki (trac) is good and easy, but I see no > problem in user other stuff. I'd like to have rich text capabilities > so we can inline images (screenshots, etc) and screencasts, making it > even more interesting. > > > -- > Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri > http://profusion.mobi embedded systems > -------------------------------------- > MSN: barbi...@gmail.com > Skype: gsbarbieri > Mobile: +55 (19) 9225-2202 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables > unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine > for externally facing server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
