weekly newsletter

[John Levin]

On 13 Jun 2005, at 03:19, Michael Beattie wrote:

> I am interested in starting/working on a weekly newsletter type of
> thing.  It can be a distilled down and nicely presented summary of
> what is going on in the community, what meetings are coming up, new
> members, maybe a "featured project" or something.  I would work with
> the leaders of the different teams to get something together each week
> and mail out.
>

+1

> I see the target audience being people that dont want to read all the
> mailing lists but would like to see what kind of things are going on
> with the project.  I got the idea from the Gentoo Weekly newsletter so
> I guess it would be something like that.
>

There are a number of newsletters and emagazines knocking around the  
FLOSS world: mozilla newsletter, gnome journal, etc. What I like  
about the format is that it is manageable, without excess or  
duplication, and regular.

Overall, it's why I buy linux magazines (there's three here in the  
UK) even though, for the same price, I could buy a book each month.

John