[Geany] RFC: Setting up a monthly newsleter?

[Russell Dickenson]

On 9 February 2011 09:02, Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de> wrote:
> 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.

I have already read through the existing document and Lex's (?)
suggested changes and believe it is ready to be published. I won't be
able to make a contribution to this issue because I am not available
this weekend.


-- 
Russell