On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Dave Neary <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I'm not sure if that is sustainable. We will need a larger pool of >> volunteers to do this I think. (which is good for me, because I think >> we have bought in a bunch of people, but we lose them because there is >> no work to be done) >> > > > It depends on what you are posting - 3 detailed blog posts a week, I'd > agree. But if you have one longer piece (like 600-1200 words) and two > shorter call-outs to either interesting GNOME community blogs, or mailing > lists threads, or 3rd party articles, with a couple of sentences of context > and commentary, it is not a lot of work. And if we really do manage to > spread the load (say, shifts of 2-3 people who "own" shorter posts for a > week, with different people each week, and someone gently reminding the > weekly editors) I think it could work. > > I agree that some of that is not a lot of work to write it. But disseminating information is what we need the volunteer work for. We don't have a good structure on what's going on that's interesting for people to know. For instance, I usually figure out what articles to write because of a blog post, but also on IRC conversations and what not. Sometimes, I might even see something in the commit log that might also spur an article idea. It is those kind of things that take a lot of of work.
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