Re: The "Dear GNOME" Project

[Steve George <s rascal org>]

Hi,

Can I make the suggestion that we do this via the GNOME Summary?

We've had other good ideas in the past such as the 'modules report' where
maintainers would report/publicise progress regularly that never got of the
ground.

As it is we have the Summary but getting good content for it is a constant
battle.  Since it already exists it has a reasonable readership - if you check
Linuxtoday you will see it is accessed a fair few times via them.

Just a suggestion,

Steve


On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 11:24:02PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> So,
> 
> All credit to Owen for this great idea. We can also blame him if it sucks of
> the arse. Thanks Owen! :-)
> 
>   This really fits in well with what I'd like to see on the new GNOME
>   website, and our outreach activities, so I'm going to see if we can kick
>   this off early. Perhaps everyone will need some time to get used to it.
> 
>   "Dear GNOME" can provide an easy and personal way for new developers and
>   our user community to communicate with the project as a whole. Sometimes
>   questions or comments are far too wide reaching to post to a single list
>   or Gnotices thread, so a small team of editors can go a long way towards
>   bringing the GNOME project to a single person.
>   
>   Perhaps it will end up being a weekly edited FAQ, perhaps a great place to
>   ask developers questions without feeling you're interrupting their hacking
>   time, perhaps it's just a good way of recording what we're already
>   answering so repetitively on mailing lists every day.
> 
>   I'd do this in a similar way to Kernel Traffic (I was once the author of
>   the SLUG Cousin, which unfortunately died due to lack of coeditors - it
>   was not really a big enough community for it), with deargnome gnome org,
>   delivered to a small mailing list of editors who can claim questions or
>   comments and answer them. Once a week or fortnight, these can be published
>   on the GNOME website and publicised to LWN, LinuxToday, etc.
> 
>   Each publication will hopefully draw many questions, comments and
>   responses, and if we decide to do away with comments on news.gnome.org, we
>   can point to Dear GNOME as another contact point.
> 
> Further ideas for this? I'd like to get started on it. :-)
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> -- 
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>          the tough choices to make it happen." - Maciej Stachowiak          
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