Man Shankar wrote: > Hi, > > Firstly apologies if this is the wrong -list for such a post. I would > like to see the GWN restart (i m sure i m not the only one) ! Infact i > can contribute my weekends to it. That should be enough time. > > As regards, the need for a newsletter, i guess its more to do with > information dissemination. Clearly a monthly schedule is difficult for > a fast moving distro like Gentoo. Also another major benefit is for the > prospective users who see something coming from within the community and > beleive it to be alive and well. I mean, the Gentoo community knows that > Gentoo is doing very well (cheers to the devs and the community- you > rock) but unfortunately that is not the view outside. This kind of puts > off the user-to-be (i know because my *nix-aware friends are difficult to > convince and a lot of garbage has been written about Gentoo in the past). > Also there are those who just prefer the newsletter in their inbox as > opposed to going through forums and websites. Ofcourse, there are other > reasons as well. > > Now, as regards the content - i have the following on mind: > > 1) The regular stuff -- stats, new packages, removals, dev joinings, > hottest thread, most discussed topic on ml etc. > 2) One article -- ranging from the hip and happening in the Gentoo-world > to howtos; > 3) Community member of the week (devs or users) -- About a community > member, the format will be specific (i m working on it) > 4) There has to be some tech-humor ;-) LOL!! > > 5) Other suggestions and criticisms are welcome! > > So, how do i go about it? Whom to contact, the hurdles i should be > prepared for etc.? > > I would be happy to help out with the newsletter, especially with the "one article." I don't know if a weekly newsletter is appropriate though. Maybe bi-weekly or monthly like it is now.
--Zach
