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