Ok, I got mails all over the place, so I'm going to try and sum up the idea I had when I went ahead and created the Lauchpad Team and IRC channel.
I could be very off, so please excuse me as it seems I rushed things, I was under the impression it never moved past the discussion, when in reality mdke had done a lot of great work on the spec. The idea would be to have an ubuntu-news team, which would in fact just group all of us working on UWN, The Fridge, Ubuntu.com News and FullCircle. Most of the current projects members overlap, as the news stories do, so something useful for The Fridge, might also be useful for UWN. I think instead of having a *very spammed* open mailing list, we should have a simple form on a webpage with a CAPTCHA like mechanism to avoid spam bots. It's a much easier to submit then mailing a list (you can bookmark it, and doesn't require you to open a mail client). I would like the mailing list to be used for receiving the web form's input, and members to propose and discuss news, so everybody else knows about it and can add it to their project if they find it interesting. I believe the news team should actually be a team itself, instead of focusing on each project, where, for example on the UWN, there's just really Corey, Nick and me as regulars, and some sporadic contributions. Having -news work as a team itself would probably make it easier for members to cross over to other projects and contribute to them. I do agree that the current structures should be preserved, and I would also like to have some sort of spec that would make sure the marketing team doesn't eventually loose contact with the news team (this isn't likely to happen at the moment since most active members on -news are active in -marketing as well). I would also propose scratching the fridge mailing list, and preserving the marketing submissions one for marketing-specific topics (or a web form too, I can code it for both). It's not my intention to drift away from whatever mdke had in mind originally, so I'm sorry if I did. Maybe we need a meeting to iron out the details? Martin -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
