UbuntuNews

Revision 1 as of 2007-05-30 07:34:54

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  • Launchpad Entry: None

  • Created: 30 May 2007

  • Contributors: MatthewEast

  • Packages affected: None

Summary

This spec outlines the plans to create an ubuntu-news team which contains all the various initiatives dealing with news in the Ubuntu community, to provide them with single resources and to assist the people dealing with them to share efforts and work more efficiently.

Rationale

There are a number of different news-related projects in the Ubuntu community. Examples are:

Currently these projects are fragmented - the Fridge has its own mailing list where stories are submitted and discussed; the Newsletter is dealt with by the marketing team (which is not an intuitive team to be dealing with it); the Magazine has its own resources; and the website is worked on privately by the Ubuntu webmaster. This causes a certain amount of inefficiency.

The Ubuntu News team intends to provide a single set of resources for these teams to discuss and forage for news in and around the Ubuntu community and formulate appropriate stories.

It does not intend to unify the projects or disturb the workflows of any of the groups of people working on each initiative.

Use Cases

Elizabeth comes across a story on Planet Ubuntu which is newsworthy. She is unsure of which particular initiative might be interested in it, and mails it separately to the Fridge editors and the marketing team for inclusion in the newsletter.

Isaac is an Ubuntu community member and is interested in contributing to the weekly newsletter. He is not interested in marketing as a concept and is surprised to find that the weekly newsletter comes within the competence of the marketing team.

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