Newbie task: Coreboot Weekly News? - coreboot

21 Jan 2009


      Hi,
some of us are following this mailing list and want to contribute, but
the barrier for development is a bit high.
Coreboot would greatly benefit from weekly/monthly writeups which
summarize what happened during the past week/month.
Benefits:
- News outlets have something to link to.
- Summaries for time-constrained people who can't (or don't want to)
keep up with the mailing list.
- Great starting point for journalists who want to write a short blurb
about something cool.
- Raised awareness among a much wider audience.
- Everybody on this mailing list can contribute regardless of coreboot
experience and programming skill.
Listed below are similar weekly/monthly newsletters which I think could
serve as orientation for our own:
PostgreSQL Weekly News:
http://www.postgresql.org/community/weeklynews/
The irregular Nouveau-Development companion (TiNDC):
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/IrcChatLogs#T2008
It should be noted that keeping a tight schedule is not as important as
releasing a newsletter at all. And with TiNDC, some senior developers
look at the contents before publishing to make sure that no bugs creep
in. That also means it is not a problem if you're not sure about
something. Simply write about it and let the "reviewers" take a look.
On to the possible contents:
- Slightly edited/summarized svn commit messages.
- News entries on the wiki.
- Announcements on the mailing list.
- Larger debates on the mailing list.
- Upcoming events.
- Upcoming documentation/code releases.
We do not need perfect grammar nor a most elaborate style. The text
should be readable and for everything else there's the final
retouching/review.
Is anyone interested in participating in that task?
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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