Posted by aaron on March 6, 2008 at 3:58pm
I only found out about this group yesterday. I've been involved for a couple of months in a discussion to relaunch the Drupal Newsletter as a stand-alone site, ideally on a sub-domain such as newsletter.drupal.org. I just spoke with Dries this morning, who liked the idea, but suggested news.drupal.org. He also suggested contacting members of this group, since you folks have already been working on the bigger picture.
You might want to take a look at my post about a proof-of-concept at https://groups.drupal.org/node/9432 and also http://drupal-newsletter.org (the proof-of-concept itself).
I have a lot to catch up on, since I was unaware of the d.o redesign discussion until recently.
Thanks,
Aaron Winborn
Comments
News and Planet?
Well, if we are going to have a news.drupal.org, then perhaps that is a good spot to also put Planet Drupal -- and segment into different categories and such. I'd be interested in helping with that, especially if we build it with Feed API and do some interesting stuff with it. Might also be the best place to move the Drupal Digest stuff to that is independently being worked on (greggles, you still running that?).
This makes a lot of sense to
This makes a lot of sense to me. Both the Planet angle, and regarding the digests. Consolidation of all "news" under the "news" moniker would be the most intuitive way to go.
Everything that currently shows up in the newsletter is of the "thoughtful and considered" variety, and periodic (i.e. issue-based), but having a news.drupal.org site where we'll be sending out the "newsletter" as teasers linking back to the main site once a month - that will potentially result in de-emphasizing the "newsletter" nature of the news. And that could allow the emphasis to fall on the site itself as a more traditional, non-issued, web-news outlet... So, would it be confusing, to have "issue" based content co-habitating with the stream of info that the Planet and digests represent? I suppose it all comes down to presentation, and how clearly the various schedules or lack thereof would be communicated to the user.
mlsamuelson
Email vs. RSS
The newsletter would go out via email -- everything else is RSS based. That alone warrants issue vs. continuous stream, I think.
And of course, if we add some rating/commenting/popularity to individual feed items, those become good candidates for an in depth write up for the newsletter.
I like the idea of
I like the idea of consolidating news with planet (and maybe an events feed as well?), planet is sufficiently busy that additional categorisation and/or rating of posts would probably work too.
I also think it's a great idea...
And I don't see anything wrong with people seeing the newsletter while it's in the process of being written. It is, after all, an open-source newsletter about and open-source project! I also think that the planet might help draw people to the newsletter, which might help us attract more writers.
I think an events feed would be good as well- do you think we should just grab the feed from g.d.o.?
Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
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