News & Communities

A team working on improving cross-communities bonds and information flow. GitHub: https://github.com/openSUSE/newscom

Discussions

They are carried out on the following platforms:

Definition

bi-weekly
newsletter
featuring users, communities, practices, activities, events and news
about openSUSE distributions and community cultures
pleasant to read on any screen type
from any place around the world
designed to facilitate knowledge transfer, build technical skills, and share passion
to improve diversity in openSUSE.

Minimal conditions for survival

These conditions must be met for the project to continue existing:

Translation (both directions with English)

Indonesian
Spanish
Portuguese
Russian

Editing

1 person proficient with image editing
1 person proficient with reviewing and correcting texts in English
- got in touch: William Brown from wbrown at suse dot de

Writing

2 writers to create new content or rework already available contents

Production

1 person for installing, setting up and maintaining a static content generator
1 person for creating, editing and maintaining templates

Requirements (web version)

The web version of the newsletter meets the requirements just in case it:

can render the entire content of a single issue in any language as a single page
looks nice on mobile screens and has low network footprint
supports language versioning (switching from one language to the next re-renders everything in the target langage)
is platform or service agnostic (so that it's very easy to migrate)
supports full-text search across issues

Tools

PenPot

It is FOSS and web-based; it allows you to design 'realistic' mockups / prototypes. Very useful for demoing things before turning to dedicated tools.

Adobe Spark

It is not FOSS, although it is useful for reference.

Delivery/publishing options:

Upload to a website
Publish to social media
Email the subscribers

Polotno Studio

Somehow, an open-source alternative to Adobe Spark. It's use Polotno SDK https://polotno.dev/#price

Jekyll

multi-language support plugin: https://github.com/kurtsson/jekyll-multiple-languages-plugin#3-installation
interesting themes. . .

Example of a bikweekly newsletter

Imagine something like this, pushed by email or RSS webfeed or web push notification:

 2021
 March 01  # 1 - openSUSE news & communities biweekly newsletter
    Tutorials
       - learn how to git
       - useful zypper commands
    News
       - openSUSE foundation founded!
       - news & communities first issue!
    People & communities
       - Spotlight on: Geekos Daw to be featured in Teatro alla Scala
       - Art & tech: Indonesian community will surprise you!
       - Success story: How did the Brazilian community manage to beat the main openSUSE telegram group in number of users?
       - Focus: Who is < user name here> and what does they do for a living?
    Future events
       - FOSSDEM '21 around the corner
       - pizza party for celebrating release 1.0 of the new docs

Ready to process

Call for contributions to Issue #1

To do

wanted: native English speaking person to voiceover video by Ivo on 10 reasons to switch to openSUSE distributions

Archives of outgoing posts

2021-02-08, sent, email sent privately to teams working on "101.opensuse.org" and "moodle.opensuse.org"
2021-01-05, sent, email to the mailing lists probing maintainers and veteran contributors: https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/project@lists.opensuse.org/thread/YXGHCJU76ENJNTVWNDV5AYNA3WAGPLQT/
2021-01-05, (drafted, not sent) First call for contributors, https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/r.82d270604074c5000fc0118b48e3f162

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