On 5/28/07, Matthew East <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to hear people's ideas on a proposal to create an ubuntu-news > team. Here is my rationale. > > At the moment there are several initiatives around the Ubuntu community > which deal with Ubuntu-related news, both internal and external. The two > most prominent are the UWN and the Fridge. Other examples would be the > magazine initiative, and the news section on the Ubuntu website. > > Currently all these initiatives are quite separate, in that occasionally > material and editorship overlap but generally the two are separate. > > This position isn't efficient from a community perspective. It seems to > me that the people involved with each have common interests (i.e. > scouring the Ubuntu ecosystem for news and formulating stories from them). > > Let me be clear - I'm *not* proposing any kind of merging of the > initiatives themselves, because I think that each of them has a specific > and useful goal. I'm *not* proposing any change of personnel around the > various initiatives. I'm simply proposing that the nature of the > activities be recognised as common and people working from each should > become part of the same team and share the same resources to work with > (in particular the same mailing list). > > This would also improve the ease of contribution for people who would > like to become involved in the various initiatives. Right now the fact > that various teams exist makes it a bit complicated in terms of becoming > involved. In particular, the fact that the UWN is within the realm of > the "marketing team" is not obvious for a newcomer to the community, > because "marketing" generally involves the promotion of a product to new > users, and the UWN (the goal of which seems to me to be aiding > communication within the Ubuntu community) doesn't fall within that > definition. > > So in sum, I'd propose that those working on the Fridge and those > working on the UWN become part of an ubuntu-news team, and work on a > common mailing list called ubuntu-news-submissions (which in my view > could be renamed from the existing list called > ubuntu-marketing-submissions). Such a team would be structured carefully > in order to preserve the existing positions of editorship. > > I look forward to hearing your thoughts. After a consultative period, if > people are generally positive about the idea, maybe we can start talking > about ways to take this forward. > > Matt
This seems like a sane idea. A few thoughts: * Will creating this new time gut the marketing team? * We had discussed the issue of common interviewing on saturday at the marketing team meeting. This is certainly something that a -news team could do. Corey -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
