[openbeos] Re: the new website

"Jorge G. Mare (a.k.a. Koki)" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The Development Blogs are like "online diaries" where the devs can 
> > post development stuff/rants/experiences at any time; it is more of 
> > a 
> > personal thing, and it is very dynamic. We could well also call 
> > this 
> > section "Devs Blogsphere" or "Devs Planet" (which is very much in 
> > vogue these days).
> >
> > The newsletter is a less dynamic media that would be published 
> > periodically (on the web to start, potentially in print in the 
> > future) 
> > with mostly Haiku related articles contributed that can be 
> > technical 
> > or otherwise in nature. Think of it more like a magazine.

And printing what for? And more importantly: where do you think the 
contents will come from? Do you expect any developer would write 
something beyond his blog? I would doubt that.
I can see no reason to print these things either - who and how should 
it be distributed? Who would ever want one? They could be given out for 
free on meetings like WalterCon, but I still don't see that printing 
these things out would give us any advantages.

> An additional, and important, comment.
> 
> I want to the marketing content to be formal, so while I don't have a 
> problem using a blog system to enter the news into the news section, 
> and 
> the articles into the newsletter section, I do not want it to look 
> like 
> a blog (no links to XXX's articles, comments, etc.).

No comments? Articles are a lot less less useful without comments; even 
real magazines have a comment section for their articles.
What is your reasoning behind that? Only that it shouldn't look like a 
blog?

Bye,
   Axel.

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