[openbeos] Re: the new website
- From: "Jorge G. Mare (a.k.a. Koki)" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:55:07 -0700
Axel,
Just three short comments on the topic of the newsletter.
One: the newsletter will NOT be monthly; we will start with an open
calendar, and even if we can only publish it once or twice a year to
start with, it would still serve its purpose.
Two: printing on demand was what I had in mind, at least for the
foreseeable future.
Three: I am fully aware of how difficult it has been for Haiku until new
to get contributions. But then I ask you (and the others who are
skeptical) that you have an open mind and let me prove you all wrong. :-)
If we meet at WalterCon 2007 and by then the newsletter has not worked
out, I will treat you to dinner at your place of choice. :-)
Koki
Axel Dörfler wrote:
"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 :
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