Based on feedback here, I'll plan to do a few things to focus the communication to fewer, more actively-used channels:
* I'll retire the freedos-kernel email list. (I'll make it read-only, and not mention it on the "Forums" page.) All kernel development discussion should go to freedos-devel. * I'll retire the FreeDOS blog on Blogger, and migrate that content to the FreeDOS website, probably under <www.freedos.org/blog> or maybe <blog.freedos.org>. I'm not sure which is better. I have some items queued up for future publication (I try to "get ahead" when I can) so I'll let those play out over the next few weeks while I figure out how to best export the blog to the main website. I have blog posts scheduled through the end of May, so I'll probably move the blog right after those end (wait for the last item to go live, then export & republish). Expect a news item about this in a few weeks when it moves. * I'll clean up the "Forums" page. I'll try to keep the forums we want people to use marked with an obvious "Join" button. Others will be just links, probably listed under an "other" category or something like that. (For example, I'll probably have a line in there that says "USENET was the original way we would communicate, before we moved to email lists." And then just plain links to the USENET groups.) * I'll start sharing more items from our Twitter feed as news items on the website. Same for things that get announced on the Facebook group. Not sure how to best do this. I'll try to balance between sharing things and not overloading the news feed. There's no "rule" that sums up perfectly how to do this, so I'll go with what seems to work well. Let me know if I'm putting too much on the front page. --> In general, that means I'll start sharing more items about "X has started a new program/project that runs on FreeDOS." In the past, I've tweeted the first announcement, then made news items on the website if that person keeps making new releases (i.e. it's not a "one-off" that then dies). Instead, I'll share more of those, and maybe the extra attention will help the developer to get traction with other developers. --> For smaller items, I'll try to group them together into a sort of "news of the week" item. Might not be weekly, but I'll try to keep it timely. * I'll also start posting occasional news items about the FreeDOS channel on YouTube. For example: A few weeks after I started the channel, I posted a news item about it, and shared links to the videos I'd made by that point. I'll do something similar for new videos: I'll spread out these news items by a few weeks, and post a news item to remind (new?) website visitors about videos that have been posted over the last few weeks. --> I'll also make a similar news item about the "Writing FreeDOS programs in C" video series. This is the "teach yourself to code" video series that I mentioned earlier in this thread. I'll start making these news items this week. I want to avoid posting a whole ton of news items at once, so I'll spread out these news items over this week. Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
