> On Jul 15, 2025, at 1:15 PM, Whitney True <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is super helpful. M&P is in a similar boat w/r/t trying to lower the > barriers to participation while also maintaining clear expectations so that > promo request flood gates don't open (though this kind of flood would be a > welcome problem to have right now). > > I'm wondering if there is a way we can coordinate efforts without causing > more work on your part?
Well certainly if someone wants to talk about their project in a way that falls outside of what you want to promote, send them my way. I tend to be less interested in the technical details than in the why, and in the stories of how folks are using our software to make the world better in some way. I’m also very interested in conversations about general open source topics like mentoring, or how companies are engaging, or whatever. > > We're looking to have more projects featured on the blog as part of the > 'project spotlight series' and also uncover any use cases that we can to > underscore the public good mission. Perhaps the lowest hanging fruit would > be to have the blog spotlight sort of supplement each podcast episode even > if that means changing the template of questions we typically ask and > turning the podcast into almost a Q&A transcript. > > In short, it would be great if we could get multiple assets from a project > while we have them engaged but also don't want to interfere with your work. One of the themes I’ve heard at several conferences lately is the importance of multiple content forms for multiple audiences. Producing short video for folks that prefer that format, audio for folks who like to listen on their commute, and text for those that prefer reading, is of course more work, but reaches a much wider audience. So this isn’t interfering at all. Also, we both produce some content that is point-in-time as long as stuff that has a longer shelf life, which require different amounts of planning and editing. > > Fwiw, here is the blog template we follow. > https://docs.google.com/document/d/107egp12hl6dsjgWzT-E2V56L0qu8SMTqzYt04uGkt5M/edit?tab=t.0 > > > We may even be able to pull answers from the podcast episode and simply ask > the project for approval. We would of course then also link to the podcast > episode within the blog itself and continue to promote across all channels. While I’m not an “AI is the tool for everything” guy, using an AI summary tool to pull major topics and points from an audio segment is a great way to reuse that content. Turns out Google Meet just does that by default now whether you ask it to or not, so my interview with Lenny came complete with a blog post that AI wrote for me from the audio. Pretty cool.. And all my content is explicitly placed under the Creative Commons Share-Alike 4.0 so that anyone can reuse and remix it in any way that they want. So that’s not only allowed, but actively encouraged. I do always run edits past the interviewee before I post them, of course. So, yes, getting a PMC to approve a message is great. — Rich Bowen [email protected]
