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Hi all, |
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Huzza! Welcome to 2017! This year I would like re-ignite the Gentoo news |
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project. It has been smoldering for some time and I think with a small |
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bit of interaction from YOU (the developers, the council members, and, |
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yes, even YOU foundation members), it would be easily rekindled. |
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To be clear, I have no absolutely no intention of writing a full |
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newsletter each month. Most people's attention spans are not long enough |
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to even read though a newsletter or make it this far into an email, so |
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I'm not looking to spend a lot of time doing that. I have something much |
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simpler in mind. Presently the GMN project has moved. It is now called |
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simply "News". We have a #gentoo-news channel on Freenode and a |
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news@g.o mail alias. |
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Here is the YOU part: the only way this project will work is if YOU push |
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news announcements to ME. As you understand, Gentoo is a broad ecosystem |
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with LOTS going on _constantly_. I only use one desktop environment and |
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can't look at #gentoo-commits / gentoo.git log to track the changes of |
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major successes or new additions to the main repo. |
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You can use either the IRC channel or news@g.o to push news items |
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of interest to me. I will handle weeding them out and getting them to |
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the developers and the community on the social sites. The IRC channel is |
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preferred because I am always connected, and messages are instant; but |
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again, as it should be in Gentoo, _your choice_. |
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Example news items could be: |
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* New release of Gnome (or any other supported DE). |
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* New, interesting packages added to the main repo. |
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* New projects - Tell me about the project goal and what you're working |
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on. I will also watch the gentoo-project list, but LOTS of times it's |
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easy to miss things. |
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* Project changes - Want the community to test something? Want to warn |
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us about something? Want to remind us of something? Want to scold |
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inactive members of your project? You can now do that on social sites so |
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that the world can see! Hope you caught the sarcasm in that last sentence. |
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* Event annoucements - Tell me where you're meeting and what you'll |
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talking about. Give me the highlights of a past the event. Tell me why |
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attendees should go to your event. Share pictures from your event. |
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Gentoo is going to be present as FOSDEM 2017. What about Scale? I'd be |
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happy to push invitations to the social sites. Just tell me what to say. |
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For event invitations should also have an announcement on the front page |
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of the main site, IMO, but we can start with getting them to our social |
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sites. |
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* Anything that is exciting that has happened for Gentoo - This goes for |
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projects that completed a long or short term goal, Gentoo being |
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recognized for something important, or Gentoo is seen somewhere in the |
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news media. Good OR bad external news can be shared. You can even rip |
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something off the forums or Reddit and re-share it in #-news. |
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* Gentoo ported to run on a strange or unusual piece of hardware - |
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Recently I saw Gentoo being ported to the PS4. That was something that |
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should be shared with #-news. |
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Once it gets to me, the news will probably go out one news item at a |
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time, in one or maybe two sentences. This way we can be reporting news |
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as it develops, instead of releasing news in a monthly --oneshot like |
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the old project. As mentioned for event invitations above, larger or |
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more important news items can hopefully be shared on the main www page. |
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Also, the QA project seems to be good at generating all kinds of graphs |
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and charts, so I have no plans to use the old Python scripts for those |
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kinds of things. I do have some other ideas up my sleeve for this |
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project in the future. |
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The one thing to take away from this email: if you have some news item |
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that has some value to the community you should share it in #-news. It |
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would be great to release early and release often in terms of news. This |
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will not happen without YOUR help. |
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Anyone who wants to aid these efforts welcome to join the project. |
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Looking forward to hearing any thoughts from you on things that may need |
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to be flushed out a little. |
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Your docs doctor and news host, |
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Mr. Marchese |
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