On 3 January 2011 00:11, Frank Lanitz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I was thinking about an idea I'm not sure whether somebody would be > interesting in. > > As the Geany family is growing it might become more difficult to keep > track on current developments inside the project as well as the close > environment like new or updated plugins, important updates on GTK or > some other used library in case you don't read every mail on the mailing > list or hanging around all time inside IRC. > > As I know from a couple of other projects some kind of a project > newsletter has been set up by a couple of people to help to keep on > track with latest updates. So I'd like to suggest setting up something > like this also for Geany and its plugins etc.. > > In difference to the newsletters around Debian or PostgresSQL I was > thinking about a monthly one maintained by a small team of maybe three > people monitoring the mailing list, IRC as well as they are open for > input of users and (plugin) developers. Based on this they could > compile a newsletter and send it out to either geany-user mailing list > or maybe some newly created one. > > I could imagine of topics inside the 'newsletter' (unsorted list): > * Geany Core > * Reviews inside press, blogs, wikis etc. > * Major updates/bugfixes/improvements on svn trunk > * New releases and updates > * HowTos for working with Geany > * Plugins > * New plugins available > * Major updates/improvements/bugfixes on plugins > * General > * Important updates of used libraries > * News out of community (of importance for Geany) > > So question are: > Who would like to see such a thing? > Who would be able to help compiling such a newsletter? > Any other ideas or suggestions? > > Cheers, > Frank > -- > Frank Lanitz <[email protected]>
I think this is a *great* idea and am willing to volunteer as a member of the newsletter team. I'm happy to "give it a go" and will let others judge my work. My time is rather limited at the moment but I believe I could make a useful contribution. I speak (and write) only English, I'm afraid, so I couldn't contribute to translations in any way. In thinking about the format, I wonder if a blog-style format might be better than a regular newsletter. I say this only because a newsletter can be delayed solely because one item is not quite ready. I am the author and editor of the Frugalware Linux newsletter, so I have some experience in this area. For the moment I'll await further details and team members. :) -- Russell _______________________________________________ Geany mailing list [email protected] http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany
