[openbeos] Re: the new website

"Jorge G. Mare (a.k.a. Koki)" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> With regards to where the material would come from, I envision many 
> opportunities for articles from people beyond the core developers (I 
> hope this is not a problem); the content will also go just beyond 
> coding 
> (I hope this is not a problem either). Specifically, there is 
> WalterCon 

No, as you can see with the previous newsletters, articles from 
developers are rare, and we already have quite a number of contributors 
beyond the core developers.
And if you envision the newsletters as marketing material foremost, 
developer articles probably also should be rare (or at least be chosen 
carefully to be not too specific/advanced).
But as Stephan mentioned: it's not easy to get people to write 
newsletter articles. This is not only a problem of developers - writing 
a good article takes time and effort. Michael had to step in pretty 
often to write one, and I'm sure you would run into a similar problem 
if you're aiming for a periodic schedule too short.
So to start with, I wouldn't announce to make it available monthly, 
only to need to change this to every-two-monthly later on. I would 
rather start with that, and if it works out, that we had to shorten the 
period to make up for the demand, and number of contributed articles - 
even though I wouldn't expect that to happen too soon, at least 
probably not before we start releasing something).

> to report about; there can be interviews, so that the outside world 
> starts knowing a little bit about the people inside the Haiku 
> project; 

Okay, then this additional marketing material starts to make sense for 
me ;-)
Even though I would still only print them on demand :)

Bye,
   Axel.

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