Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Issue #2

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Monday 12 June 2006 13:25, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 07:47:11PM -0400, Matt Galvin wrote:
> > Since our inaugural issue last week we received a flurry of great
> > ideas and suggestions about how to improve the UWN and increase its
> > usefulness for our readers. One of the suggestions we received is to
> > write feature of the week articles (either for dapper or edgy) in
> > order to introduce readers to features of Ubuntu they may not be aware
> > of or to learn a trick or two about apps they may already use and
> > love. It would rock if the feature of the week content could be driven
> > by community contributions. We would absolutely love to hear about how
> > you use Ubuntu each day and what you love about it. Other people may
> > not know about the features that you know about and use everyday.
> > Spread some Ubuntu love around by writing a small paragraph about a
> > neat Ubuntu feature. Drop it on:
>
> Oh, another idea I don't think I mentioned yet...once we have a bunch of
> spec documents completed for Edgy, we can pick one out each week and have
> the author write a short introduction to it for the newsletter.
>
> Mark has also proposed that we could organize a chat session on IRC along
> similar lines, giving the community at large a chance to talk with the
> relevant developers about the projects they're working on.  We could
> announce these sessions via the newsletter along with the highlights.
>
> Great (continuing) work on UWN!
>
> --
>  - mdz

I like the idea for the spec docs to be discussed/announced in the newsletter.  
This will prevent issues like what happened with the Kubuntu Release notes 
where no one liked the style and I am re-writing them.

Jonathan