[gnokii forgot to send it to -marketing. I am also replying to his message] On Thursday 18 March 2010 14:52:32 you wrote:
Am Donnerstag, den 18.03.2010, 14:09 +0100 schrieb Javier Llorente:
On Thursday 18 March 2010 12:00:44 S.Kemter wrote:
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!
+1
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.
+1
I would leave English news in English and have a section with news in the corresponding language.
The solution is easier as this. There is a section called "from the planet". But which planet? That means actually only the english planet.
But we have more as an english planet, we have a planet in german, in spanish, in portuguese and in polish too.
There is a second reason to use this planets to maybe that animate more ppl to use them!
+1 Non-English planets should be promoted.
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"
I propose changing the format. Pligg could be an option to consider. Users (including the oWN staff) would submit news and vote them. The articles with the most votes would appear in the frontpage. See http://www.pligg.com/about.php http://www.pligg.com/demo/
I think interactivity isnt really needed there. When the information are good enough in there its enough.
This would make it more interactive. You could also include videos, polls, etc directly on the frontpage.
I wouldnt use videos and polls in it. There are other tools for it. I would change the publishing form for it, its crazy to publish such a thing in a wiki.
Pligg is not a wiki ;-) I am not 100% convinced that the wiki is the right format for oWN.
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 ;)
I don't agree. There are news from other sources. So, not everything is on the planet. And not all people read the planet on a daily basis.
yeah Thorsten Lemhuis, the Kernellog good idea really that are things that most guys have in her feedreader too and btw Thorsten dont like openSUSE ;)
On the end the openSUSE related stuff is not enough ;) There are more posts about that out there
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!
+1
br gnokii
Greetings, -- Javier Llorente