On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 10:00 -0400, Pascal Calarco wrote: > There are various accounts that need to be established, and I found all > of this a bit opaque when I first joined the Fedora Project, so I will > try to document the whole thing here, and, if this makes sense, I'll > take responsibility to add this to the NewsProject/Join page, pointing > to other pages where this makes sense. Great idea Pascal! > We use wiki software to write the beats now, although in the future we > are looking at moving to a blog format so we can syndicate stories out > w/RSS, which isn't possible in an easy way right now. > > In order to contribute to the wiki, it is first a requirement that you > establish a Fedora Infrastructure account. Here's where to request a > new account, and there are additional steps such as generating a PGP key > set and such: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/AccountSystem I don't think there's a need any longer to bother with GPG/PGP keys. That was something the old account system required. The new system is entirely click-through, and easy as pie. > Next, you'll need to do to edit pages, is to establish a new wiki > account, at: > http://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&returnto=FWN And the wiki uses the same account name and password you just created in the account system. Wicked! > Once you have that set up, add yourself to the Fedora News Project page > by editing the page and adding yourself to the list at the bottom with > your wiki account name, which will probably be in the form MarkBell: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject > > Does one need to join the Ambassadors to join the FWN team? I don't think it's a requirement. > Then, you can edit the Marketing Beat, and once you are complete, mark > the beat as COMPLETE by editing and updating the Beats page. > > If you ever can't do a beat due to travel, vacation, or simply too much > work in other parts of your life, that is no problem at all, just mark > your beat as NOT HAPPENING for that week, and you can pick it up when > you have more time. > > Then each week just repeat the above! :) > > I could do the beat for this week since this will take a few days for > all of these accounts to get set up, and then you could start on this > for next week's FWN, if you'd like. > > Let me know if this raises any questions, and for other folk on the > list, please do feel free to correct me on anything here! This looks like a long set of instructions, but in practice it's actually quite simple. And folks here are happy to help if you have questions or uncertainties. -- Paul W. Frields gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://paul.frields.org/ - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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