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Meeting 28 11 09

• Old AI:
  • AI Jan: Refer Site for current_issue
  • AI Jan: Logos
• New AI:

Archive

Meeting 14 11 09

• Old Action Items:
  • AI Jan: Refer-Site for current_issue
• New Action Items:
  • Add section contents about "Project" section (Naruhiko)
    • At this time, we have no policy about "Project section in Section Content page. It might be confused both of editors and readers, because there is no defnition about the projects described this section is inside or outside of openSUSE. It is very clear that we should add contents about "Project" section in Section Content Page, but what kind of content is good?
      We have two or more choice as follows, and my opinion is we should choose Policy 1 (discussed later):

Policy 1. "Project" section should includes outside of openSUSE, and not include either inside openSUSE (e.g. Boosters team) or subproject of openSUSE (e.g. openSUSE Education). openSUSE internal project or subproject should be different place ("Status - Description" or "In the community."

Policy 2. Keep current policy (it's not described clearly), i.e., say just "topics from big projects," but nothing define inside or outside of openSUSE.

Policy 3. Others

Detail

We need to clear advantages/disadvantages, then I propose my opinion.

• Advantages
  • Policy 1.
    It is very clear what kind of topics should put on there. It can help both of editors and readers.
  • Policy 2.
    Nothings to be decided.

• Disadvantages
  • Policy 1.
    It is difficult to decide that which projects are this range, because there are lots of projects outside openSUSE.
  • Policy 2.
    The ambiguity might cause sometimes editors "where this news should put on?" or readers "why openFATE team and openSUSE Booster team has different position?"

• My opinion
  • Regarding making clear both of editors and readers, Policy 1 ("Project" section only handles outside of openSUSE) is better.
    The range needs more discussion, just my idea is follows:

1. KDE
2. GNOME
3. OpenOffice.org
4. Mozilla foundation related projects (Firefox, Thunderbird, et. al)

Meeting 31 10 09

• New Action Items:
  • AI Jan: Refer-Site for current_issue
  • AI Sebastian: SUSEnews 0.1.5beta released

Meeting 17 10 09

• New Action Items:
  • AI Sebastian:
    • SUSEnews 0.1.4 beta released
• Old Action Items:

Meeting 05 09 09

• New Action Items:
  • AI Satoru:
    • Is there anything we can do for openSUSE Conference 2009 as Weekly News team ?
      • Actually, who will attend the Conf ?
      • Publish a special edition ? If 'Yes', How & When ?
      • Is there any way, translators who won't be able to be there can attend Sascha's talk session remotely ?
    • The more articles we collect, the less translations are done. :-(
      • For the last 2 weeks, only hu(Light), ja and zh_tw(both Full) translations have been available. If a translation sub team has plural (active ;-)) members, translations can be done. However, if only one translator have to translate on his lone, it might be a "ball-busting" work.
        • What does seem sure is that we need more translators and have to continue recruiting, but, are there any good ideas to lower hurdles for (potential) translators ?
• Old Action Items:

Meeting 22 08 09

• New Action Items:
  • AI Sebastian:
    • SUSEnews BETA release. Also available via 1-Click install.
  • AI Satoru:
    • Load sharing of editing original en newsletter during Jan's 'vacation from newsletter'.
    • Introducing the upcoming events all over the world (e.c. Nicaragua/Opensuse Day@UCA from Ambassador/Events). New corner ? In "Upcoming Events/Meeting" corner ?
    • Categorize articles in 'Tips and Tricks' and 'On the Web' into sub-categories.
      • Since the number of articles in those corners has been increasing, I think they became a little chaotic. So I came up with this idea, so that readers can easily find what they are interested in.
      • For Example:
        • Tips and Tricks
          • For Desktop Users
          • For Commandline/Script Newbies
          • For Developers and Programmers
          • For System Administrators
        • On the Web
          • Announcements
            • # Announcements on new relaese, improvements etc. from upstream or companies/organizations.
          • Call for participation
            • # Call for participation to newly launched project, program, survey, event, etc.
          • Reports
            • # Status reports from upstream or companies/organizations and reports on past events, etc.
          • Reviews and Essays
          • Warning!
            • # Security related issues which readers should know.

Meeting 08 08 09 (was 25 07 09 was 11 07 09)

• Old Action Items:
  • AI Jan:
    • Ping Zonker or Novell (Logo)
    • Ping geoff & hawake
  • AI Sascha:
    • Search Alternative Translators for Russian (Maybe ping official Translation/Localisazion Team)
    • Changes in the Online.php from forums.o.o.
    • Changes in the Editing and Translation Process. Release WN each Saturday, Translation releases if ready. -> Note to Marketing List
  • AI Satoru:
    • Ping Marketing List for Creating own Dummypage for each $LANG.
  • AI Sebastian:
    • Status Report (Polls & Surveys Weekly News)
• New Action Items:
  • AI Sebastian:
    • SUSEnews BETA release. Also available via 1-Click install.
  • AI Satoru:
    • Load sharing of editing original en newsletter during Jan's 'vacation from newsletter'.
    • Introducing the upcoming events all over the world (e.c. Nicaragua/Opensuse Day@UCA from Ambassador/Events). New corner ? In "Upcoming Events/Meeting" corner ?

Meeting 13 06 09

• Old Action Items:
  • AI Jan:
    • Ping Zonker or Novell (Logo) - mail sent, WIP
    • Ping geoff & hawake - geoff/hawake pinged, waiting reply
  • AI Sascha:
    • Ping Minton
  • AI Satoru (and Transrators):
    • Dummy page for 'Not yet translated' template

• New Action Items:
  • STS301
    • Poll solutions "How are the openSUSE news"

Meeting 18 04 09

Old Action Items:

New Action Items:

• Satoru Matsumoto
  • ToDo checklist for the 'now out' announcement
    • A while ago, there was some errors - especially the numbers of the issue - in 'now out' announcements and some persons pointed out the errors. Read this post. For the last issue #67, there was no number error in 'now out' announcement, but I found the 'number of the latest issue' on our front page was still '66' after the 'now out' announcement was posted (So, I fixed it). I think we ought to prepare the ToDo checklist for the release. Those works depend on Jan-Simon and Sascha ATM, but, if there are something we can do for that, I'd like to help.
  • Status of ru, it, sv translators
    • For the last 4 weeks, translated issues for Russian, Italian and Swedish are empty. It would be no problem if the translators of those languages are just busy at the moment, but I'm worried something might have happened to them. Why don't we ping them in case they don't join this meeting and ask if there are something we can help them ?

Meeting 04 04 09

Old Action Items (Status Report):

• Jan-Simon:
  • Meeting Frequency
  • Layout (Boxes and othzer)
  • Logo
  • Translators & Coordinators

New Action Items:

• Satoru Matsumoto:
  • openSUSE Community Week
    • Is there anything we can do for openSUSE Community Week ? For example, can we publish special issue or something ?
    • See this page.

Meeting 03 21 09

Old Action Items (Status Report):

• Jan:
  • Guidelines about Logos (Zonker)
  • Counterpixel Zonker

• Satoru Matsamotu:
  • Discuss about a new Icon for the "Editors Note" Section
    • Proposals for new Icons are here.
  • Picking up articles from Novell site
  • Normal font style article and another layout example

• BenderBRodriguez:
  • New Proposal for Readypage

• Sascha:
  • other Time for the official Meeting (Frequency)
  • Coordinator for each Language: We need an second Team of Translators. So if one of the Translators haven't enough Time to translate, so an other Translator have the chance to translate. We need an Coordinator of each Language Team. So the Coordinator observe the Translation Process and fill up the Readypage. Translators

Meeting 02 21 09

• Old Action Items (Status Report):
  • Guidelines about Logos (Zonker asked)
  • Counterpixel

• New Action Items:
  • Discuss about a new Icon for the "Editors Note" Section
  • Localization:
    • Chinese version (light)
    • New Translator for French
    • Traslating some English grammar contration in Italian (by hawake)
  • Picking up articles from Novell site

• Question & Answers
  • Feedback about workflow
  • Feedback about workload
  • Feedback about possible improvements

Issue 55

• Election: Weekly News Masscot! --Saigkill 12 jan 2009, 00:47 UTC
  • need to clarify artwork with legal dep. - need to postpone --dl9pf 19:54, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
• New template - --dl9pf 19:54, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
  • evaluate proposals
  • decide on icon-sets
  • test translation-tool
  • migration-date
• Only one official IRC Meeting per month --dl9pf 11:22, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
  • e.g. 3rd saturday in a month, "official" meeting.
  • nevertheless we can still loosely meet at 12h UTC on saturdays, if time permits
  • meet in irc, and move to gobby if things are ready

Issue 54

• "Light" version - Do we need templates for the "Light" version ? --HeliosReds 09:12, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
• To make newsletter more visual-rich - Kalman's template for the Light version is so cool. Could we use this concept to make newsletter more visual-rich in the future ? What do we need for that ? Who will re-design the template for the Full version ? --HeliosReds 09:12, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
• New READY-Table - Which candidate is easy-to-use ? --HeliosReds 09:12, 9 January 2009 (UTC)