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Newsletter / mailing
« on: January 31, 2012, 07:44:39 am »
Maybe an idea to bring a kind of newsletter in the scope?
This way, new plug-ins/versions/skins/nice-to-know/... -things can be better announced?

Personally i want to stay up to date about new evolutions.
It's a bit hard to go each time through the wiki's, the site, the forum to see if anything is changed.

Of course, different ways are possible:
  • mailing
  • blog/rss (think this can be the best way?)
  • updates over fb/twitter
  • ...
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Re: Newsletter / mailing
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2012, 09:31:50 am »
Maybe an idea to bring a kind of newsletter in the scope?
This way, new plug-ins/versions/skins/nice-to-know/... -things can be better announced?

Personally i want to stay up to date about new evolutions.
It's a bit hard to go each time through the wiki's, the site, the forum to see if anything is changed.

Of course, different ways are possible:
  • mailing
  • blog/rss (think this can be the best way?)
  • updates over fb/twitter
  • ...


We do have the news on www.linuxmce.org, which I also post in the forum.
But to be honest, there isn't so much news that we need to twitter it. The development is slow, but steady. I see no advantage in twittering that I made another bongojoke and golgoj4 laughed and updated 3 bits of code.

I think the wiki is no place for news.

If you give to much updates, people are not interested or get the wrong expectations.

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Re: Newsletter / mailing
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2012, 12:49:37 pm »
That's maybe why a blog (with rss) could be interesting?
Fe if somebody has created a new skin, this could be posted on that blog. Or fe a nice howto to add a ip-phone. Or ...

Not really official 'news', but i think that a lot of guys are interested in these kind of things?
And could be interesting to have more 'testers' / feedback?



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Re: Newsletter / mailing
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2012, 01:18:10 pm »
That's maybe why a blog (with rss) could be interesting?
Fe if somebody has created a new skin, this could be posted on that blog. Or fe a nice howto to add a ip-phone. Or ...

Not really official 'news', but i think that a lot of guys are interested in these kind of things?
And could be interesting to have more 'testers' / feedback?





Maybe add svn updates to a rss-feed?

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Re: Newsletter / mailing
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2012, 01:53:51 pm »
brononi,

That's maybe why a blog (with rss) could be interesting?

thanks for volunteering to do such a thing.

Setup a blog and maintain it. We will add a link to it from the wiki. If, after a couple of month, you find out, that you really enjoy writing about LinuxMCE in the blog, we can link a subdomain to the blog as well.