-----Original Message----- From: fedora-infrastructure-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-infrastructure-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Anand Capur Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 21:23 To: fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Fedora Magazine RFR On 6/21/07, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Anand Capur wrote: > Thanks! We do need a real CMS, not a Wiki. I already ditched Joomla and I > think i'll use plone. I'm sorta experienced with it and like you said > I can > use the knowledge already gained from the main site installation of > plone. > eGroupWare is how we will track the projects, articles, progress, > calendar, > etc.... So we've come a long way in the last couple of days. I always appreciate enthusiasm for something new and you certainly seem to have it. Please be patient with the team though as it's very difficult for us to determine serious contributors from fly by night people. And fly by night people really do take a bad toll on our work. The task list as I see it is you'd still like to see eGroupWare to track articles, progress and calendar stuff. In theory this could be used in other areas of our infrastructure as well. So the first task I see for you is to get eGroupWare packaged and in Fedora. Beyond that I'd like to ask you to contact Thomas Chung about Fedora Weekly News if you have not already done so. It sounds like the two of you are targeting very similar audiences and Fedora Weekly News is absolutely outstanding in my opinion and more contributors will only make it better. I think it would be best if the two of you worked together to find commonalities like branding/look, release cycle, tools, etc. Then Thomas's group could continue to report on all things Fedora and you could add to it maybe interviews and technical documentation. Perhaps Thomas would like to use Plone in the future for Fedora Weekly News when it comes out. What do you think? -Mike I already am working with FWN and Thomas :). The plan is to include FWN articles in the magazine ;). And I'm not a "Fly by night" person, I didn't just "show" up, i've been an ambassador for a long time (at least 1-2 years). ------------------------------------------------------------------ Well I've had my own job to take care of but I've been keeping up with the list. I can't tell you how much of a pain it is to try to send a file update to a unit over a 2.4kbs satellite channel particularly when they can't stay at periscope depth for any period of time to download a 4mb file... Had to break it up into a lot of very small zip files. I do like the idea of a Fedora magazine but I'm afraid it could just fall into the multitude of ezines out there like some projects I've seen. It seems like the focus right now is on a dedicated infrastructure for a magazine that doesn't exist yet. I for one would worry less about that and more about the whole magazine issue itself. I don't think it's set in yet about how much work goes into producing a magazine. I think the more logical step would be to build a team and actually see if you can pull off producing a few issues and then break off to it's own website once it's established. I've seen more than a few ezine projects die after an issue or two and it seems like a huge waste in man-hours to set up everything before that. Start it off with FWN and then worry about the rest later. ------- Brandon Jasper, CTN2(SS) NSSC Bangor N621 Afloat LAN Admin. SIPRNET: brandon.jasper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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