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* Christel Dahlskjaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06/06/10 04:28 +0100]: > 1. Reliability. The GWN claims to be a weekly publication, yet it > frequently fails to publish without prior warning. There was no edition > this week, and Patrick Lauer says that it is "unknown" whether there > will be an edition next week as Ulrich Plate is AWOL. Several times Kurt or I took over the job of publicing the GWN when Ulrich asked us. So, there is a backup, but he didn't asked for this week. > 2. Permissions. Although it could be considered flattering that the GWN > should choose a developer's blog as inspiration for an article, they > should ensure that they have the developer / author's permission before > quoting them (see previous complaints by brix, ciaranm and others). > > I also believe that when posting an article or interview, a copy should > be sent to the relevant people to ensure that they are ok with what is > being posted (my dev of the week interview, for example, was rather > screwed up and misrepresentative). When someone contacts GWN to have > something corrected, it would be appreciated were the GWN staff to at > least deign to acknowledge receipt, even if for some reason they choose > not to honour the corrections or post a retraction (although refusing to > publish corrections is extremely insulting to those wronged). And I expect the same from you. You should ask the affected people first before starting a discussion about them on our public mailing lists. This is a device I can give you for further userrelations-activities. > 4. Credit. Care should be taken to ensure that crrect credit is given. It is. Either as "Author" or "Contributor". > Another thing that concerns me is the way the articles are written. It > is blatanly obvious that the GWN writers are not native English speakers > as both the grammar and the flow of the articles is far from attractive. > Having read through the archives, I notice that there was once a time > when the GWN was a great publication, and I would like to think that it > could become great yet again; in its current state, though, it is doing > more harm than good. It's quite interesting to see, that the GWN and also Debian's Weekly Newsletter is run by Germans mostly. Is there a problem with native speakers to run a periodically newsletter for a long time (> 3 years)? > Lack of content and poorly written or incorrect articles are often > justified by the GWN team on grounds of overwork and insufficient > manpower. When I asked why they were not recruiting, I was informed that > no-one has any interest in contributing. Upon speaking with others, > however, I find that this is not the case -- people are interested, but > fear (and rightly so) that their work will be edited in such a way that > it is no longer something with which they want to be associated. Subscribe to the gwn-feedback-alias and read or comment the submissions to the GWN. Make sure that every user will receive and answer. And forward questions to the arch-teams. Isn't that userrel's job? I didn't saw your contributions there yet. Regards, Lars
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