[opensuse-marketing] Monthly article from the Board
Dear Board, The openSUSE News team has been thinking, and after the pain of doing so had subsided, we came with the conclusion that the endeavors of our dear board are by and large interesting enough to share with our community ;-) Or, in other words, at oSC we met and discussed what regular articles we'd like to have on news.o.o and one of those was a monthly Board report. Would you, dear board, be interested in doing that? And if so, what date would you like to pick for it? Let me arbitrarily propose the 2nd week of every month on the Thursday... Mail the content on Tuesday at the latest to news@opensuse.org and we'll get it edited and scheduled for the Thursday. For your convenience, I will try to set up an automated KICK THE BOARD mail which will remind you a few days before the deadline, simultaneously kicking ourselves to make sure we don't forget to put it up. My mail client has this newfangled "send later" feature which can schedule mails, so let's use it ;-) Hugs, Jos
Hi Jos, Sorry for the delay in getting back to you - because this was CC'd to opensuse-marketing it got filed in the wrong mailbox The idea of regular 'Board Reports' is something we've discussed as a Board and is certainly something we'd like to do - we'd also like to see similar Reports from all the other various teams that make up our project. You saw a 'dry run'/face to face version of this at oSC 13 Speaking personally (we haven't had an opportunity to discuss it among the board yet) I think 'Monthly' might be a little too often. My thought was more for a 'Quarterly' report, similar to what the folks at KDE are doing That said, what do you think? You can get a good idea of everything we're up to from the regular stream of minutes from our biweekly Board meetings https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_meeting Do you feel every 2 meetings produces enough goodies to become an article? On 30 August 2013 09:12, Jos Poortvliet <jos@opensuse.org> wrote:
Dear Board,
The openSUSE News team has been thinking, and after the pain of doing so had subsided, we came with the conclusion that the endeavors of our dear board are by and large interesting enough to share with our community ;-)
Or, in other words, at oSC we met and discussed what regular articles we'd like to have on news.o.o and one of those was a monthly Board report. Would you, dear board, be interested in doing that? And if so, what date would you like to pick for it? Let me arbitrarily propose the 2nd week of every month on the Thursday... Mail the content on Tuesday at the latest to news@opensuse.org and we'll get it edited and scheduled for the Thursday.
For your convenience, I will try to set up an automated KICK THE BOARD mail which will remind you a few days before the deadline, simultaneously kicking ourselves to make sure we don't forget to put it up. My mail client has this newfangled "send later" feature which can schedule mails, so let's use it ;-)
Hugs, Jos -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 03 September 2013 08:35:38 Richard Brown wrote:
Hi Jos,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you - because this was CC'd to opensuse-marketing it got filed in the wrong mailbox
The idea of regular 'Board Reports' is something we've discussed as a Board and is certainly something we'd like to do - we'd also like to see similar Reports from all the other various teams that make up our project. You saw a 'dry run'/face to face version of this at oSC 13
Speaking personally (we haven't had an opportunity to discuss it among the board yet) I think 'Monthly' might be a little too often. My thought was more for a 'Quarterly' report, similar to what the folks at KDE are doing
That said, what do you think? You can get a good idea of everything we're up to from the regular stream of minutes from our biweekly Board meetings https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_meeting Do you feel every 2 meetings produces enough goodies to become an article?
Actually, yes, I think that that should suffice for a short report. It doesn't have to be like the huge quarterly reports like KDE does them, I think simpler and more frequent is better for our purpose. It helps people follow what's going on with the board... If you could make a rough story around the last 2-3 reports we can already start for the 12th (next week). What do you think? /J
On 30 August 2013 09:12, Jos Poortvliet <jos@opensuse.org> wrote:
Dear Board,
The openSUSE News team has been thinking, and after the pain of doing so had subsided, we came with the conclusion that the endeavors of our dear board are by and large interesting enough to share with our community ;-)
Or, in other words, at oSC we met and discussed what regular articles we'd like to have on news.o.o and one of those was a monthly Board report. Would you, dear board, be interested in doing that? And if so, what date would you like to pick for it? Let me arbitrarily propose the 2nd week of every month on the Thursday... Mail the content on Tuesday at the latest to news@opensuse.org and we'll get it edited and scheduled for the Thursday.
For your convenience, I will try to set up an automated KICK THE BOARD mail which will remind you a few days before the deadline, simultaneously kicking ourselves to make sure we don't forget to put it up. My mail client has this newfangled "send later" feature which can schedule mails, so let's use it ;-)
Hugs, Jos
Hi Jos, Sorry for the delay in getting back to you - the Board discussed this at our last meeting (9th Sept) We are very enthusiastic about the idea, but as we're currently operating with a reduced board, we have a bit of a bandwidth issue. While we're willing, practically we do not think we have the capacity to deal with the additional work required so we think these reports should start when the new board starts in January Our current thinking is that we'd prefer to report on a quarterly basis, though I suppose we could leave the final decision on that for now and have the frequency of these reports be the one of the first decisions for the new board after the elections. Does this work for you? Many Thanks Richard Brown openSUSE Board On 3 September 2013 15:29, Jos Poortvliet <jos@opensuse.org> wrote:
On Tuesday 03 September 2013 08:35:38 Richard Brown wrote:
Hi Jos,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you - because this was CC'd to opensuse-marketing it got filed in the wrong mailbox
The idea of regular 'Board Reports' is something we've discussed as a Board and is certainly something we'd like to do - we'd also like to see similar Reports from all the other various teams that make up our project. You saw a 'dry run'/face to face version of this at oSC 13
Speaking personally (we haven't had an opportunity to discuss it among the board yet) I think 'Monthly' might be a little too often. My thought was more for a 'Quarterly' report, similar to what the folks at KDE are doing
That said, what do you think? You can get a good idea of everything we're up to from the regular stream of minutes from our biweekly Board meetings https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_meeting Do you feel every 2 meetings produces enough goodies to become an article?
Actually, yes, I think that that should suffice for a short report. It doesn't have to be like the huge quarterly reports like KDE does them, I think simpler and more frequent is better for our purpose. It helps people follow what's going on with the board...
If you could make a rough story around the last 2-3 reports we can already start for the 12th (next week). What do you think?
/J
On 30 August 2013 09:12, Jos Poortvliet <jos@opensuse.org> wrote:
Dear Board,
The openSUSE News team has been thinking, and after the pain of doing so had subsided, we came with the conclusion that the endeavors of our dear board are by and large interesting enough to share with our community ;-)
Or, in other words, at oSC we met and discussed what regular articles we'd like to have on news.o.o and one of those was a monthly Board report. Would you, dear board, be interested in doing that? And if so, what date would you like to pick for it? Let me arbitrarily propose the 2nd week of every month on the Thursday... Mail the content on Tuesday at the latest to news@opensuse.org and we'll get it edited and scheduled for the Thursday.
For your convenience, I will try to set up an automated KICK THE BOARD mail which will remind you a few days before the deadline, simultaneously kicking ourselves to make sure we don't forget to put it up. My mail client has this newfangled "send later" feature which can schedule mails, so let's use it ;-)
Hugs, Jos -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner@opensuse.org
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