Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (185 mails)

["S.Kemter" <buergermeister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

> As you may know, Weekly News Team is organizing biweekly regular IRC
> meetings on the #opensuse-newsletter channel on Freenode alternate
> Saturdays 14:30 UTC. However, we couldn't start the meetings for the
> last several months, because only few people were on the channel at that
> time - most of the time there were only Sascha and me. :-(

Thats a normal reaction of ppl. Because there are to often meetings with
no important things. All what Sascha doing is copy and paste reminders -
so maybe noone more is interested in his announcments. Because he does
the same with other meetings.

Meetings are important but they should be only when it is really needed!
> I know most of the team members are too busy with their own works to
> attend the meetings and the time for the meeting may not be so
> convenient for everyone. If members were willing to join the meeting but
> happened to be busy at that time, that's not the problem. What I am
> afraid of is, lack of interest.
>
> So, if you think you are a part of the Weekly News Team or want to be,
> I'd like to ask you:
>
> 1) Are you satisfied and having fun with editing/translating Weekly
>    News? In case the answer is not "Yes", please tell us the reason, if
>    you can point out.

Make it sence to translate the OWN? No - For what reason should I read
the german newsletter when there only links to english pages are in?
There would be a easy solution for this problem.
> 2) Do you have any good ideas, proposals and opinions to make Weekly
>    News much more interesting and attractive both for readers and
>    editors/translators? "It would be interesting at least for me, if we
>    ..." is considered a good answer. ;-)

Sure I have but I dont find it funny to get a answer "this was always so
we dont change it"

> 3) Is the meeting time - 14:30 UTC alternate Saturdays - convenient for
>    you? Over 1 year has passed since we fixed the time, it might be
>    good chance to reconsider the better time for meetings. Or, if you
>    think we had better discuss topics on another channel such as
>    mailinglist, forum, Google Wave, etc., which is unaffected by time,
>    please tell us your recommendation.
>
> There might be some opinions like "We should ..." and "We have to ...",
> but I would rather talk with you about how we can enjoy our work on
> Weekly News and provide more interesting and useful newsletters to our
> readers. To make things better and more interesting, we always need your
> help. ;-)

Thats a little bit a chicken-egg problem. I saw last time often calls
for help from Sascha but I think that does not help.

I think most ppl are not interested in the OWN because I can all things
read on the planet fresher.
The situation with the newsletter have to be changed first then u get
new ppl because the thing the can work on is a good thing ;)

Change means not to put new sources in, like last time its the same like
read the stories on the planet.
Put in a new picture on the top makes it not better too.

The content is the key to get readers! 

br gnokii
> Best,
>
> -- 
> _/_/     Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/
> _/_/  Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/
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