[openbeos] Re: the new website

Axel Dörfler wrote:
"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.

The newsletter in print would be, put in simple words, another tool in our marketing arsenal designed to promote Haiku the project (and eventually the OS, when it becomes available). A printed newsletter can be used in many ways; distributing it at WalterCon (and/or BeGesitert) is one, but it can also go into a Haiku media kit (sent out to editors), it can be given out to regional HUGs to use at conferences, plus it could be put up for sale in order to raise funds for Haiku. At this point is just an idea.

I am fully aware that a good amount (but not necessarily all) of the content will come from developers. I am also cognizant of the fact that articles from devs have been sparse and far between. But I am not a defeatist and instead think that we need the right incentive for the contributors to write articles. The newsletter in print could be such an incentive. 
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?

Blogs are personal diaries, and therefore look too personal and informal. At least for "official" communications, we need to look formal and authoritative. I am open to the idea of enabling comments for newsletter articles.

Koki


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