On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 03:06:07PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 12:03:29PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > I've no qualms about having this kind of opinion piece. I did want to > > say that I think Fedora Magazine on the whole should retain a > > user-centric slant, and not get too focused on internal community > > issues. > > Hmmm. I agree, but... we also need a central focus for running things that > are about internal community issues. I am working on some stuff about > project objectives (as part of the new fedora council), and I can do it as > mailing list posts but I'd really like it to be more... blog posty, with > discussion to follow. > > I can set up my own personal FPL blog, but... I'm historically terrible at > that whereas it turns out to be easier for me to be _part_ of something, if > that makes sense. And, it would kind of be nice to have a central place for > things which _are_ more internal. The Fedora Council seems like a good > example — a general overview makes a good user-focused article, but details > beyond that are probably more interesting to contributors, and the elections > articles (like the interviews we were talking about) are _meant_ for > contributors. > > I know Ryan was talking about wanting to reduce the number of categories. > What if we made it just two, for user-focused and contributor-focused > articles? Maybe keeping 5tFTW as a separate thing which covers both — or, > possibly splitting that into two separate posts, one for each category (and > probably removing the "5" from both, because speaking from experience 10 > total would be crazy). I like this idea. Let me see if I understand it: If you hit the site blindly (http://fm.o) you'd see the general user feed (e.g. "For Users"). There'd be some way to choose "For Contributors" and you could see that stuff too. Is that accurate? -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
