Hey Adam, On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 14:17 -0500, Adam wrote: > We were just talking about this in IRC and I was advised > (sarcastically) to bring my idea forward on the mailing list. The UWN > has stagnated and frankly the form in which it was presented is an > out-dated model.
I think it would be a shame to lose UWN because we feel its delivery method isn't fashionable. If we feel its content can be better handled, say as ad-hoc posts, then that's certainly a good discussion to have. > I want to propose we move to a more "social" solution, that allows > for more community involvement. A forum post weekly would be > sufficient, but I'm more in favor of a blog-style solution. I'm not sure what you mean by a more social solution. UWN is edited on a wiki - the most collaborative way possible, without getting into real time collaborative editing. I think replacing UWN by email with a forum post would be a mistake. UWN is currently pushed to people, a forum post requires people to go find it. > The benefits of the blog style solution are obvious: > * The news is delivered as it happens, in an editorial format > that is interesting to users. > * Users are able to comment and give feed back on individual > editorials > * Users are able to add to the editorial themselves through a > comment solution. > * RSS allows this "news letter" to be delivered directly to > anyone who has subscribed to it. I think this is more an argument to rethink The Fridge, than to ditch UWN. I've been out of touch lately, but I'm willing to bet there'd be a fair bit of support for integrating The Fridge fully with the marketing team. That way, The Fridge isn't at the mercy of an exclusive coterie of editors. UWN, however it's delivered, can still have a place, I think. Some people may not want to track a blog but enjoy receiving a weekly digest. It's good to work out why UWN exists and who its for. > I feel that ideal sites for this would be wordpress or Blogger.com > (blogger may be easier to set up). What do you guys think? As others have said, we don't need another site. Let's make the most of what we have. Let's have a debate about what the Fridge is for, what UWN is for and how we should move them forward. I've been concentrating on Launchpad for the past few months, so I've neglected the Fridge lately. It's an important barometer of the Ubuntu community, though, and we shouldn't let it go through these active-fallow cycles. So, if the marketing team does take over the Fridge, we'd need to work out how to decide who gets to be an editor, etc and what content we want it to have. Once that's sorted, it's just a matter of switching discussion to this list, rather than the close fridge-devel list. Any thoughts? -- Matthew Revell - talk to me about Launchpad mrevell in #launchpad, irc.freenode.net -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
