That's great news Sara! Henne, what else do you need from the technical aspect, regarding manpower? And be precise please, as I may not understand the terminology completely :) And would it be OK for me to publish an article calling for people to join in, with that specific knowledge being labeled as 'urgent'? Kind regards, --- Nenad Latinović nenad.latinovic@posteo.de On 19.12.2014 19:05, Sarah Julia Kriesch wrote:
Thanks for the explanation.
Gesendet: Freitag, 19. Dezember 2014 um 07:56 Uhr Von: "Nenad Latinović" <nenad.latinovic@posteo.de> An: Marketing-opensuse <opensuse-marketing@opensuse.org>, "opensusetv . ." <news@opensuse.org> Betreff: Re: [opensuse-marketing] Re: Marketing Push for openSUSE [Suggestions & opinions]
I had a longer reply prepared yesterday, and in the meantime you've sent yours :) And yes, i agree on everything, and that's actually what i meant also. As for the 'filtering' news vs telegraph section, yes, categories would fit nice. So basically, a full-blown news site would be, as i see it, necessary currently so we don't lag behind.
Kind regards geekos ;)
--- Nenad Latinović nenad.latinovic@posteo.de
On 18.12.2014 15:30, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Hey,
On 18.12.2014 07:54, Sarah Julia Kriesch wrote:
@Henne: I have got some technical backgound. Can you say, what you want to do with all the plugins? What is exactly your idea?
May Idea is, similar to Nenads, to refresh the look & feel and the content of news.opensuse.org, network the blogs we have and introduce an editorial work flow.
Currently openSUSE has a lot of disconnected sources of content
Internal (under our direct control) * news.opensuse.org * lizards.opensuse.org
External (personal stuff) * planet.opensuse.org * Twitter * G+ * Facebook * Youtube
each of those has different people who can put content onto them and supposedly a slightly different purpose and audience. News suggests it's the 'official' content, lizards is personal content with a clear focus on openSUSE, planet is just personal content. In reality these mix (News contains personal content, lizards and planet contain official announcements) then throw in the all social networks which also carry content and you end up with the situation we have now:
1. There is no way to effortless stay up to date with openSUSE 2. We always reach only a fraction of the people we could reach with our content.
My idea is that we start connecting all the places and make news.opensuse.org the spot for the most interesting content of any kind and source. The newspaper front page of openSUSE so to speak.
That way we can maximize attractiveness and the throughput of News and making it easy to stay up to date with stuff that happens around openSUSE. It would also be way easier to feed our own social network accounts with relevant content.
It is a very good idea improving that. At the beginning I have asked me, how I would be able to get all necessary informations for being up to date, too. I think, we can get more contributors after that.
This requires us to do 3 things:
1. To make News the hub it should be, we add the pressforward plugin, add the XML feeds of the external places to it, then start re-releasing the awesome content our community produces.
It is based on what I have learned in the database team (2 weeks) and what I am doing since 3 months. Sometimes I have to add/ change links to internal websites and networks of our customer companys in xml files after deployments. I am a System Engineer and Linux-Systemadministrator (IT Operations) for our self developed marketing software (SaaS) now: http://www.brandmaker.com/en/marketingsoftware.html
2. To help the News team to produce better original we merge the now separate lizards and news wordpress blogs into a wordpress network. Then install the editflow plugin and introduce an editorial workflow. Which means people from the network (all news & lizards authors!) can 'propose' content for News to the News team. We have to think, how we want to do that. Do we want to have all informations from every network mixed and ordered by time? -> confusing, what is what and where can I get the right information?
Do we want to have them in different splits? -> structure, but you won't have enough place for all.
other options...
That's a way for getting more contributors to the news team.
3. To make this consumable for our readers we would have to redesign news as it won't be a simple blog anymore but more a traditional news site.
That's another step, where we need the steps before.
I hope this makes more sense now.
Henne I would join.
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