[Geany] RFC: Setting up a monthly newsleter?

[Russell Dickenson]

On 3 January 2011 00:11, Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I was thinking about an idea I'm not sure whether somebody would be
> interesting in.
>
> As the Geany family is growing it might become more difficult to keep
> track on current developments inside the project as well as the close
> environment like new or updated plugins, important updates on GTK or
> some other used library in case you don't read every mail on the mailing
> list or hanging around all time inside IRC.
>
> As I know from a couple of other projects some kind of a project
> newsletter has been set up by a couple of people to help to keep on
> track with latest updates. So I'd like to suggest setting up something
> like this also for Geany and its plugins etc..
>
> In difference to the newsletters around Debian or PostgresSQL I was
> thinking about a monthly one maintained by a small team of maybe three
> people monitoring the mailing list, IRC as well as they are open for
> input of users and (plugin) developers. Based on this they could
> compile a newsletter and send it out to either geany-user mailing list
> or maybe some newly created one.
>
> I could imagine of topics inside the 'newsletter' (unsorted list):
> * Geany Core
>        * Reviews inside press, blogs, wikis etc.
>        * Major updates/bugfixes/improvements on svn trunk
>        * New releases and updates
>        * HowTos for working with Geany
> * Plugins
>        * New plugins available
>        * Major updates/improvements/bugfixes on plugins
> * General
>        * Important updates of used libraries
>        * News out of community (of importance for Geany)
>
> So question are:
> Who would like to see such a thing?
> Who would be able to help compiling such a newsletter?
> Any other ideas or suggestions?
>
> Cheers,
> Frank
> --
> Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de>

I think this is a *great* idea and am willing to volunteer as a member
of the newsletter team. I'm happy to "give it a go" and will let
others judge my work. My time is rather limited at the moment but I
believe I could make a useful contribution. I speak (and write) only
English, I'm afraid, so I couldn't contribute to translations in any
way.

In thinking about the format, I wonder if a blog-style format might be
better than a regular newsletter. I say this only because a newsletter
can be delayed solely because one item is not quite ready. I am the
author and editor of the Frugalware Linux newsletter, so I have some
experience in this area. For the moment I'll await further details and
team members. :)


-- 
Russell