Hey
We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter and I think it is time to ask YOU ( the reader ) what we can improve. The current trend is away from really technical details more to a light read and entertaining stuff. Is this a good way to go. Or should we focus more on the technical side again*. Or is the balance right?
What do you want to read about? What sections do you want? Or just comment. I am happy about any constructive criticism.
I hope you are enjoying the Newsletter.
Cheers Didi
*Of course the we will not become a only fun Newsletter.
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On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 01:29:56PM +0100, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote:
We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter and I think it is time to ask YOU ( the reader ) what we can improve. The current trend is away from really technical details more to a light read and entertaining stuff. Is this a good way to go. Or should we focus more on the technical side again*. Or is the balance right?
I greatly enjoyed this month's newsletter, especially the hacker diary. :) It's nice to see the events and "in the news" items too.
While I understand the temptation to do more technical items, I'm not sure if that's how the newsletter was conceived. I can see the newsletter being more of a meta item, not necessarily for help using CentOS, but for help on knowing what's going on. So I personally am happy with how it's going so far, but I can sympathize with those who want a more technical letter.
IOW, I like that the newsletter is a high-level view, where the centos@centos mailing list I see as a nuts-n-bolts view.
I'd like to contribute, but I need to figure out what I can do first.
Did your friend ever get his personal web site up? ;-)
--keith
We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter and I think it is time to ask YOU ( the reader ) what we can improve. The current trend is away from really technical details more to a light read and entertaining stuff. Is this a good way to go. Or should we focus more on the technical side again*. Or is the balance right?
I greatly enjoyed this month's newsletter, especially the hacker diary. :) It's nice to see the events and "in the news" items too.
I am not for a long time in the CentOS community, but I found the last two newsletters interesting and refreshing.
I think they are important to create this community feeling, which is basically what differentiates CentOS from the "prominent North American Linux vendor". For my (kind of professional) usage of CentOS, I am ready to give up some of the benefits of paid support in order to be part of a real community in the true free software fashion: maybe less "reliable", but many answers come even before you ask.
No need for more tech stuff, I'd say. But if some users could contribute stories of real-life deployments, that could begreat. That is for example one of the very interesting sides of the users mailing-list: having experienced admins sharing their experience while they answer questions. Having something like this as a regular section of the newsletter could be an idea...
So, yes, the newsletter contributes greatly to this community feeling. I'll be happy to contribute, when I'll be more knowledgeable (and funny).
Frank Thommen wrote:
Hi,
We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter [...]
What newsletter are you referring to? I cannot find any newsletter offer on centos.org.
frank
Its in the wiki http://wiki.centos.org/
Frank Thommen wrote:
Hi,
We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter [...]
What newsletter are you referring to? I cannot find any newsletter offer on centos.org.
frank
Its in the wiki http://wiki.centos.org/
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I'm glad you asked the question Frank, I was thinking it myself.
Thanks for the link Dan..... the newsletter looks great DiDi
Greg
Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote:
Hey
We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter and I think it is time to ask YOU ( the reader ) what we can improve. The current trend is away from really technical details more to a light read and entertaining stuff. Is this a good way to go. Or should we focus more on the technical side again*. Or is the balance right?
What do you want to read about? What sections do you want? Or just comment. I am happy about any constructive criticism.
I hope you are enjoying the Newsletter.
Cheers Didi
*Of course the we will not become a only fun Newsletter.
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I would like to echo the thoughts of Keith and Mathieu. I am a long time CentOS user and lurker in the list. To me, the newsletter feels like a top-view of CentOS and the community, and I like it.
A few ideas to ponder: - I could see the newsletter being a great platform for the lead maintainers to keep us informed - Mathieu's idea of soliciting a publishing success stories, real-life deployment stories, and the like would be very interesting to me
Bottom line: You are doing a great job, and I like The Pulse's direction.
Andy Hull
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann ribalba@gmail.com wrote:
Hey
We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter and I think it is time to ask YOU ( the reader ) what we can improve. The current trend is away from really technical details more to a light read and entertaining stuff. Is this a good way to go. Or should we focus more on the technical side again*. Or is the balance right?
What do you want to read about? What sections do you want? Or just comment. I am happy about any constructive criticism.
I hope you are enjoying the Newsletter.
Cheers Didi
Overall, I think it's very good. I'd like to report a small erratum: The link to "A view of the free and non free Linux market (Not the view of CentOS)" is wrong (Same as "Oracle and Novel...").
Thanks, Jim
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