[Geany] RFC: Setting up a monthly newsleter?

[Frank Lanitz]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 07:32:53 +1000
Russell Dickenson <russelldickenson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2011/2/9 Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>:
> > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:18:02 +0100, Colomban wrote:
> >
> >>Le 08/02/2011 14:52, Frank Lanitz a écrit :
> >>> Am 08.02.2011 14:50, schrieb Russell Dickenson:
> >>>> On 8 February 2011 20:26, Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Yes, I can do it.
> >>>>> I suggest outpout shall be plain text for email newsletter. PDF
> >>>>> for FTP and HTML for some homepage, right?
> >>I personally don't see a need for a PDF -- though I've nothing
> >>against it.
> >>
> >>>> Those options look OK to me. Does anyone have thoughts on how the
> >>>> newsletter might be presented on the Geany web site. Perhaps a
> >>>> page on the wiki with links to the issues in the two formats -
> >>>> PDF and HTML (wiki ?).
> >>>
> >>> Plaintext via email to mailing list. Its the most efficient way to
> >>> reach the ppl on mailing list.
> >>Agreed, ML's the best :p
> >
> > Unasked, I'll share my two cents:   (:D)
> >
> > I'd suggest to send out good old plain text via mail to this list
> > and at the top or bottom add a link to a fancy HTML version of the
> > same content easily viewable in a web browser.
> >
> > I'd further suggest to simply put the newsletter as HTML on
> > http://newsletter.geany.org (which I would create if wished) and
> > also link to this site from www.geany.org once a new one is
> > released.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Enrico
> 
> 
> Those all sound like reasonable options.
> 
> Regarding the format in which the newsletter is to be written, this is
> not (AFAIK) fixed in stone. Frank has started writing in LaTeX and,
> since he's the only one to make a contribution so far, I'm happy to
> continue. Once we have the first issue out then we'll revisit the
> question of source format. It's likely that we would accept
> contributions in plain text format and mark them up for inclusion in
> the newsletter.

I agree. 

> Frank - do you have a deadline in mind for the first issue?

My goal was to send out first upcoming weekend. Even I know its not
this many content its a start point I don't want to delay more then
needed. But right now I don't have the feeling its done. 

Cheers,
Frank 
-- 
http://frank.uvena.de/en/
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