On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Dave Neary <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been trying to figure out what the best place for GNOME project > related news & announcements is recently, and it's *really* hard. This > is in the context of announcing deadlines for attendee rates for Desktop > Summit accommodation. We've also had the call for papers, announcement > of the schedule, we have keynote interviews, etc. The DS has been > generating quite a bit of news, and yet, you wouldn't be able to tell > from looking at desktopsummit.org or gnome.org. > > We have: > > * No news posted to www.gnome.org >
You can add a news blurb to www.gnome.org. But it has to point to an article some where else. > > Aggregators: > * planet.gnome.org - aggregating personal blogs, definitely not a news > site > I think it would be good to occasionally have news things posted there. For example the IRC meeting notices never hit Planet and so most people don't see them. > * news.gnome.org - aggregates announcement mailing lists, project blogs > & the foundation blog - also not a news site > It was changed from a news site to an aggregate a few years ago because we had no news. I think now that we have a strong marketing team, GNOME Journal team and press team, we could change it back. > > Basically, someone not familiar with GNOME comes along & can't find out > our news & announcements, I too think this is a problem. Especially for companies interested in getting involved in GNOME. > someone inside GNOME wants to make people > withing & around the community aware of something, they have their > personal blog aggregated on Planet as basically the only way to do that. > This has always felt really weird to me. > > 1. Either: > - Make http://news.gnome.org a Wordpress blog and document who can add > news items to it > And remove the other feeds? Or just have a way to publish news too? > - Turn gnomejournal.org into something more like lwn, with regular > small updates, and more irregular, polished articles > : and use the one we choose as the GNOME news & announcements site > I think GNOME Journal would be cool with regular updates like lwn or just blog posts with a monthly/quarterly theme. > > 3. Find out who can post to the foundation blog and potentially use that > as a way to publish news items when appropriate. > We can add anyone we think is appropriate. I believe I can post to it but I can't add user accounts. Stormy
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