[CentOS] Monthly Newsletter

[Rainer Duffner]

Didi schrieb:
> Hey
>
> A friend asked me how he could stay up to date with CentOS and if
> there was a newsletter or something. After some research I found that
> there was a discussion on the promo list about half a  year ago but
> nothing happened.
>
> If you look at :
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Promo/TODO
>
> you can see, that is has to be done :)
>
> Would something like this, be appreciated by the community?
> What would people want to see in a newsletter?
> Are people interested in doing this?
>
> Personally I was thinking of :
> - General information (Like "whats up with 5.3")
> - What is happening on the mailing lists / Forum
> - Developer interview (Developers would you do that?)
> - Tips/Tricks
> - Event reports and up coming events
> - Word of the Month. Something to lighten up the newsletter.
> - Bug fixes
> - Ideas welcome
>
> I would be quite happy to contribute to this and it would give people
> who want to give something back a nice chance to get public exposure.
>
> Is monthly a good compromise between workload and actuality?
>
>   



FreeBSD does it quarterly:
http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/

But, I have to ask: most of the "development" of CentOS is actually done
upstream, in RHEL, right?



Rainer