On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:00:15AM +0200, S.Kemter wrote: > Hi, > > 2015-08-26 23:50 GMT+02:00 Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 01:25:26AM +0200, Gabriele Trombini wrote: > > > Hello guys, > > > > > > in the discussion I followed after both jzb and croberts talks at > > > Flock, came out a couple of indications about writing another kind of > > > magazine articles: > > > > > > 1) seems that short articles are more attractive than the long ones and > > > they have to arouse the curiosity, so people reading may deepen the > > > topic in a second time and more carefully. > > > > I think this depends on the topic. If you look at our stats, the best > > performing recent post was Jiří's rather long article on Firefox > > theme. I don't remember a discussion of short vs. long articles, but > > rather that *certain* long articles might not be best for the Magazine > > -- like a very long article about a highly internal-focused topic, > > like contributor statistics. > > > > > 2) there's the need to have more user/contributor focused articles > > > instead of technical explanation. People need to be part of the Project > > > and there's nothing better than writing for them. > > > > I think one thing we agreed on is that the reader we're looking to > > reach is not limited just to desktop users. Rather, we also want to > > reach users of the Cloud edition, and users of the Server edition, and > > provide useful articles for them as well. > > > > I don't think we reached a complete agreement as to contributor > > articles. But I think people did agree there were certain types of > > contributor topics that weren't appropriate for the general Magazine: > > > > * election info > > * team stats information > > * meeting minutes > > > > > when it comes to election info, that would mean i could not post the > results of the wallpaper election or didnt it mean more endless long > interviews with candidates for fesco. The latter -- these interviews don't really hold much value for most folks outside the core community. I think users would be interested in seeing the nice visuals submitted or chosen for the wallpaper, though. The last wallpaper article was fairly popular. -- 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 List info or to change your subscription: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
