> While a news report style should provide interesting reading, it requires > a fair amount of time to identify a story, conduct interviews, write and > finally publish stories. These challanges combined with my reliance on a > small group of developers can result in my bothering the same people more > often than I should. I'm also missing news worthy stories because I don't > know what people are doing. FWIW, I don't see the interviews as a bother. I like to see my name in the news as much as the next guy, since it means exposure for the things I care about, and helping with Midgard PR is part of the responsibilities I took when I started working actively on Midgard AFAIC. I would however be happy to see others contribute stories to the MWS. At the moment most stories revolve around a rather small group of people. If you're not contributing stories to the MWS every once in a while, technical, documentation, horror stories, whatever, you're probably underestimating the value of your own work. > These issues concerned, I'm trying to redesign MWS again. Possibilities > include; eliminate news reports, Vote against. If need be we could move to a mix of the previous MWS style and the interview style, but I'd rather not see the interviews eliminated. > change from weekly publication to biweekly, I happen to like them weekly but I'm not the one that has to get them out. Your call. > improve my effort to let people know that their efforts and > solutions are good news leads. Find other contributers that are interested > in writing articles. In favor. > My objective is to produce the best possible news letter so please > don't hesitate to express opinions or volunteer to contribute. > Incidentally, I've observed where MWS has been read up to 350 times on > a couple of the sites where we're published. In my opinion, the effort > to improve our news letter is definitely justified. But have you got any numbers on how it was before the inteviews? Maybe numbers are up. And let's not forget that whatever we may think of Midgard, not everyone is going to read our newsreports. I know I read only a very small selection of what's published on LWN for example. Emile -- This is The Midgard Project's mailing list. For more information, please visit the project's web site at http://www.midgard-project.org To unsubscribe the list, send an empty email message to address [EMAIL PROTECTED]
