[Geany] RFC: Setting up a monthly newsleter?

[Frank Lanitz]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 00:02:47 +0100
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. 

Well, I will not be able to catch this. But should be done early this
week. 

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