Spec for Edgy: Community Communication

[Lionel Dricot]

I like the Fridge very much and I believe it needs more love and
perhaps more community joke like the pony.

It also lacks a real editorial line. At the moment, it's unclear if
it's only official Ubuntu news or not. Very few people must send news
proposition to it. I suggest to keep those official news but try to
have more Ubuntu-related-but-still-funny (like the Eric Raymond
strips). I'm wish all Ubuntu users-Ubunteros consider the Fridge as
their own news portal with more "Ubuntu fan work" (like the cakes. it
was awesome :-) )

If it needs more manpower, I would be proud to join the team of
redactor/moderator.

On 6/1/06, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/1/06, john levin <john at technolalia.org> wrote:
>
> > Example 1: The demise of Ubuntu Traffic; proliferation of random
> > newsletters.
> > Ubuntu Traffic just couldn't keep up with the growing number of posts,
> > or even the number of mailing lists. It was, for a while, the best
> > overview of the ubuntu-world, and did a very good job of it.
>
> Something like the Debian Weekly News would be nice (but is a lot of
> work but is doable by a group of people):
> http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/
>
> > Example 2: Mailing list problems.
> > The mailing lists are facing a number of problems. The main ubuntu-users
> > is just such heavy traffic, that it's impossible to keep up. The same
> > questions get asked over and over (especially: upgrading from Breezy to
> > Dapper); sometimes questions don't get answered.
>
> in the very early days of Ubuntu, when the traffic was still tolerable
> and a lot less than now, I remember see a lot of Ubuntu developers
> hagning around, answering questions.  I remember mdz replying to the
> questions (the tought ones!) that were often left behind without an
> reply from, the community.  Obviously the amount of traffic makes it
> nearly impossible for developers to do that nowadays.  To keep that
> list under control and increase its signal-to-noise ratio could be a
> full-time job for someone:   answer the tought questions, direct
> people to Malone for existing bug reports, or invitation to file new
> ones, correct answers from the community that are wrong; remind people
> of the Code of Conduct when conversations go bad.  The community does
> a pretty good job at it, but having someone more official and part of
> his/her job description could possibly help matters.  And that same
> person could compile the good emails from the various mailing lists
> into a weekly Ubuntu Traffic newsletter, version 2.
>
>
> > Example 3: The Fridge.
> > The Fridge just doesn't have much news, and entries made irregularly.
> > Only three during May, 7 in April, and a poll that hasn't changed for
> > months. I feel it lacks focus, and also maintainers (the ubuntu-traffic
> > list is closed, so I don't know how many people are involved. The
> > entries made are from just two people: jdub and jorge.)
>
> jdub knows better  but to my best knowledge  these 2 are the only ones
> with posting rights to the Fridge for news items.
>
> > What the Fridge gets right: The meetings guide is really useful, and
> > keeping these scheduled events in our conciousness is really important.
>
> That's mostly me :)
>
> Recently I have beeing keeping the calendar to nearly only Ubuntu
> meeting and events.    (due to lack of personal time)  But if people
> remember  in the early days, and before on the Wiki-Calendar, we had
> more outside events and conferences (linux world, debconf, etc) on the
> calendar.  It's something I want to improve during Edgy's cycle to
> make the calendar more complete as a Ubuntu + Linux event calendar.
>
> Daniel
>
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