Hi Dave, On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Dave Neary <dne...@gnome.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 11/30/2011 10:32 AM, Allan Day wrote: >> >> For a long time we have had a news feed for gnome.org and a separate >> Foundation blog. I'm proposing that we combine them both into the >> gnome.org feed. > > I definitely think that moving to a unique GNOME News feed & news page is a > great idea. > > I wonder: how will this structure allow the evolution of handling news for > GNOME? Is there a way to submit a story or contact the editors? How does one > become an editor?
Personally, I don't think it should be the role of gnome.org to be a generic news service. It should be more 'official' than that. That isn't to say that we could not establish such a service elsewhere, of course (this was discussed on the marketing list not long ago [1]). > And, just to be clear, when you talk about the gnome.org news feed, you're > talking about http://gnome.org/news (the wordpress blog) and not > http://news.gnome.org (the Planet aggregator), yes? Yes. >> A bit of background. First, I think we should be moving in a direction >> where the Foundation isn't considered to be a separate entity from the >> GNOME project. The Foundation is a vital part of our project, there >> shouldn't be much of a difference between 'The GNOME Project' and 'The >> GNOME Foundation' in terms of membership and identity. > > I'm sure there are a few people who would contest this - who are consciously > not foundation members for some reason, while being GNOME hackers - and > there is also the technical difficulty of where you draw the line for > membership rights like having a vote in elections, but I think by and large, > defining the membership of the GNOME Foundation as "people involved in the > GNOME project" is fine. I'd be interested to hear why people don't feel they want to be Foundation members. I think it would be beneficial for the project if there is a closer relationship between being a contributor and being a Foundation member. >> The gnome.org news feed and the Foundation blog are almost identical >> in scope. The gnome.org feed provides 'official', generally >> non-technical, news about what is happening in the GNOME project. The >> Foundation blog is exactly the same, except that it is restricted to >> the Foundation. There is a large class of subjects that I would like >> to see on both streams, including board elections, fund raising >> campaigns, new members, release announcements and initiatives such as >> the GNOME Outreach Program for Women. Both the gnome.org news stream >> and the Foundation blog would benefit from having a higher frequency >> of posts. > > >> It might be hard to lose the Foundation blog, but I think we'd be >> stronger if we united our feeds. >> >> Thoughts? Opinions? > > I don't think the Foundation blog is being read by anything except the GNOME > announcement aggregator right now, to be honest. > > Occasionally people would point to foundation announcements in other blogs, > so it's important to ensure old links keep working or redirect, but I'm all > in favour of simplifying and consolidating foundation news sources, on > condition that the result is interesting for people to read. > > I'd also be happy to see notes pointing to significant news stories about > GNOME written on other sources going into this news feed, by the way (as I > think I've said before). > > > Presumably "what to do about the Journal?" and "what to do about > news.gnome.org?" are separate discussions? Yes, again, check the marketing list archive. Allan [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2011-October/msg00064.html -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list