Re: [gentoo-project] Rekindling Gentoo News

[M. J. Everitt]

On 15/01/17 07:41, Matthew Marchese wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Huzza! Welcome to 2017! This year I would like re-ignite the Gentoo news
> project. It has been smoldering for some time and I think with a small
> bit of interaction from YOU (the developers, the  council members, and,
> yes, even YOU foundation members), it would be easily rekindled.
>
> To be clear, I have no absolutely no intention of writing a full
> newsletter each month. Most people's attention spans are not long enough
> to even read though a newsletter or make it this far into an email, so
> I'm not looking to spend a lot of time doing that. I have something much
> simpler in mind. Presently the GMN project has moved. It is now called
> simply "News". We have a #gentoo-news channel on Freenode and a
> news@g.o mail alias.
>
> Here is the YOU part: the only way this project will work is if YOU push
> news announcements to ME. As you understand, Gentoo is a broad ecosystem
> with LOTS going on _constantly_. I only use one desktop environment and
> can't look at #gentoo-commits / gentoo.git log to track the changes of
> major successes or new additions to the main repo.
>
> You can use either the IRC channel or news@g.o to push news items
> of interest to me. I will handle weeding them out and getting them to
> the developers and the community on the social sites. The IRC channel is
> preferred because I am always connected, and messages are instant; but
> again, as it should be in Gentoo, _your choice_.
>
> Example news items could be:
>
> * New release of Gnome (or any other supported DE).
>
> * New, interesting packages added to the main repo.
>
> * New projects - Tell me about the project goal and what you're working
> on. I will also watch the gentoo-project list, but LOTS of times it's
> easy to miss things.
>
> * Project changes  - Want the community to test something? Want to warn
> us about something? Want to remind us of something? Want to scold
> inactive members of your project? You can now do that on social sites so
> that the world can see! Hope you caught the sarcasm in that last sentence.
>
> * Event annoucements - Tell me where you're meeting and what you'll
> talking about. Give me the highlights of a past the event. Tell me why
> attendees should go to your event. Share pictures from your event.
> Gentoo is going to be present as FOSDEM 2017. What about Scale? I'd be
> happy to push invitations to the social sites. Just tell me what to say.
> For event invitations should also have an announcement on the front page
> of the main site, IMO, but we can start with getting them to our social
> sites.
>
> * Anything that is exciting that has happened for Gentoo - This goes for
> projects that completed a long or short term goal, Gentoo being
> recognized for something important, or Gentoo is seen somewhere in the
> news media. Good OR bad external news can be shared. You can even rip
> something off the forums or Reddit and re-share it in #-news.
>
> * Gentoo ported to run on a strange or unusual piece of hardware -
> Recently I saw Gentoo being ported to the PS4. That was something that
> should be shared with #-news.
>
> Once it gets to me, the news will probably go out one news item at a
> time, in one or maybe two sentences. This way we can be reporting news
> as it develops, instead of releasing news in a monthly --oneshot like
> the old project. As mentioned for event invitations above, larger or
> more important news items can hopefully be shared on the main www page.
>
> Also, the QA project seems to be good at generating all kinds of graphs
> and charts, so I have no plans to use the old Python scripts for those
> kinds of things. I do have some other ideas up my sleeve for this
> project in the future.
>
> The one thing to take away from this email: if you have some news item
> that has some value to the community you should share it in #-news. It
> would be great to release early and release often in terms of news. This
> will not happen without YOUR help.
>
> Anyone who wants to aid these efforts welcome to join the project.
> Looking forward to hearing any thoughts from you on things that may need
> to be flushed out a little.
>
> Your docs doctor and news host,
>
> Mr. Marchese
>
>
>
>
Sounds great! I'm on board (have been lurking in -pr for some time now)
if there's anything I can do ...

MJE