I'll volunteer (unless someone more senior than I volunteers) to contribute
a piece on Ant's latest news and perhaps a tidbit of trivia on a periodic
basis.
Erik
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geir Magnusson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jakarta General List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: Jakarta Newsletter
> On 12/27/01 7:51 PM, "Rob Oxspring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 12:25 AM
> >> To: Jakarta General List
> >> Subject: Re: Jakarta Newsletter
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Don't give up too easily :)
> >>
> >> I'll help if you want. We can co-opt others by simply asking
> >> them to write
> >> a short note about what's going on in the various projects.
> >> Everyone likes
> >> to write about themselves, and we can just glom the stuff together,
> >> wordsmith here and there, and then we have a nice little newsletter
that
> >> tells what's going on where....
> >
> > This sounds like a sensible starting point to me - giving a flavour of
what
> > is going on is all I'm really after.
> >
> >>
> >> So if you are game for an approach like this, I'll help, and we can get
> >> started immediately...
> >
> > Sounds good to me, I'm fairly sure I could come up with something
> > appropriate for ant-dev and commons-dev but anything on any other list
would
> > be appreciated, and I guess an open letter to the other mailing lists
might
> > get a few projects to "write about themselves". How often should such a
> > newsletter go out though? every week seems a bit of a commitment (yeah I
> > know I'm lazy) maybe monthly would be more approptiate... either way it
> > seems that not too much has been going on over xmas so I guess that mid
to
> > end of January might be a good target for issue 1.
> >
> > Anyway, I think i'll get some sleep before getting too carried away...
> >
> > Rob
>
> This is good. I think monthly would be great to start. You write up ant
> and commons, I'll do Velocity and I'll solicit something from the other
> groups. If there is nothing to report, then there is nothing to report.
No
> biggie. We'll see how the first one goes, and tweak as we go along.
>
> geir
>
>
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