[CentOS-promo] CentOS Newsletter

Thu Jan 25 17:46:00 UTC 2018
Rich Bowen <rbowen at redhat.com>

Thanks, Alan. I do indeed know that these are very time consuming tasks, 
and I appreciate your willingness.

--Rich

On 01/24/2018 10:50 AM, Alan Bartlett wrote:
> On 24 January 2018 at 14:50, Rich Bowen <rbowen at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Long, long ago, there was a CentOS Newsletter:
>> https://wiki.centos.org/Newsletter/
>>
>> There's some useful documentation about how to contribute to it:
>> https://wiki.centos.org/Newsletter/Contributing
>>
>> And then, after running for a year, it looks like it just stopped.
>>
>> I presume that whoever was heading it up moved on to other things, and
>> nobody filled in the spot.
>>
>> I'd like to revive it over the coming months, and I wondered:
>>
>> * if anyone had some insight as to why it died
>> * if anyone here is interested in helping with this effort
>>
>> A newsletter can be a great way to tell the less-engaged audience what's
>> going on without their having to read every mailing list. It's a great way
>> to get our message out to the larger Linux audience. And it's a great way to
>> encourage people working on the SIGs to brag about what they've accomplished
>>
>> Let me know if you want to play along. I have no particular timeline on
>> this, and it's one of many items on my list, but if there's a few people
>> that want to work on it, perhaps we can get an inaugural issue out after
>> FOSDEM?
>>
>> --Rich
>>
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> I was involved in performing "proof-reading" before the release of
> each edition. It took quite a bit of my time . . .
> 
> I would prefer not to take on that task, once again, but would be
> willing to assist, as and when.
> 
> Alan.
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Rich Bowen - rbowen at redhat.com
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