Hi, 2015-08-26 23:50 GMT+02:00 Paul W. Frields <[email protected]>:
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 01:25:26AM +0200, Gabriele Trombini wrote: > > Hello guys, > > > > in the discussion I followed after both jzb and croberts talks at > > Flock, came out a couple of indications about writing another kind of > > magazine articles: > > > > 1) seems that short articles are more attractive than the long ones and > > they have to arouse the curiosity, so people reading may deepen the > > topic in a second time and more carefully. > > I think this depends on the topic. If you look at our stats, the best > performing recent post was Jiří's rather long article on Firefox > theme. I don't remember a discussion of short vs. long articles, but > rather that *certain* long articles might not be best for the Magazine > -- like a very long article about a highly internal-focused topic, > like contributor statistics. > > > 2) there's the need to have more user/contributor focused articles > > instead of technical explanation. People need to be part of the Project > > and there's nothing better than writing for them. > > I think one thing we agreed on is that the reader we're looking to > reach is not limited just to desktop users. Rather, we also want to > reach users of the Cloud edition, and users of the Server edition, and > provide useful articles for them as well. > > I don't think we reached a complete agreement as to contributor > articles. But I think people did agree there were certain types of > contributor topics that weren't appropriate for the general Magazine: > > * election info > * team stats information > * meeting minutes > > when it comes to election info, that would mean i could not post the results of the wallpaper election or didnt it mean more endless long interviews with candidates for fesco. br gnokii > -- > Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ > gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 > http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ > The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com > -- > marketing mailing list > [email protected] > List info or to change your subscription: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > -- make me rich, buy my Inkscape book http://is.gd/yq5OD0 ;)
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