On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:37:55PM +0100, Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Recently there has been some discussion about the "official" nature of > >the GWN. Is the GWN an official Gentoo newsletter that promotes Gentoo, > >or is it a quasi-independent newsletter that is free to criticize as > >well as evangelize? The GWN is hosted on the Gentoo servers, it has a > >Gentoo copyright notice, and the editor is a Gentoo dev, but the > >majority of the writing is done by the Gentoo community, not the > >developers, so it's hardly surprising that both our devs and our users > >are unclear about where the GWN fits in. My personal opinion is that we > >should encourage the GWN to be as independent as possible. > > To me, the GWN always looked like an official newsletter with the > mission to inform the users about what's going on in Gentoo. In fact, it > is announced on the main page of gentoo.org, has the Gentoo copyright > and so on, so it seems pretty official.
Need "official" and "independent" be mutually exclusive? Is that what you're trying to say and I'm just reading it wrongly? :) To be honest, I'm all in favour of a quasi-independent GWN that Grant mentioned. It's not as if it's going to be non-stop critical press; it would still be written by people who use and support Gentoo, but it would also "keep us honest" as Grant said (at least, hopefully). Regards, -- Tom Martin <slarti at gentoo dot org> Gentoo Developer: AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, recruiters GnuPG public key ID: 0xB5C4FF89 (pgp.mit.edu) Key Fingerprint: 055F A0F4 D4C6 AD9E 40E8 2EAC 8F92 A284 B5C4 FF89
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