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UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter, please pay attention to the following guidelines:
WORK IN PROGRESS
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May 30th, 2010 |
June 6th, 2010 |
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May 23rd- 29th, 2010 |
May 30-June 5th, 2010 |
June 6th- 12th, 2010 |
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How to start each week |
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Create New In Progress Wiki Page & Google Doc |
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Clear out unused sections |
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Add Images to the wiki |
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Send out reminder emails |
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LoCo Teams |
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Reminder Blog Post |
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Welcome |
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In this Issue |
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Bug Stats |
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Translation Stats Lucid |
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Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week |
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LoCo News |
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Launchpad News |
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Ubuntu Forums News |
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The Planet |
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In The Press |
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In The Blogosphere |
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In Other News |
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Monthly Team Reports |
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Upcoming Meetings and Events |
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Updates and Security |
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Credits |
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Proof Issue you and 2 others |
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Spell Check issue |
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Take out wiki commented out lines |
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In a Text editor take out the marks |
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Save a text version as uwnissuenumerin.txt (uwn195in.txt) |
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Send the the -news mailing list |
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Once it goes out on this list sent notice to news-team ML |
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IRC -locoteams |
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IRC-news |
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IRC-us |
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IRC-marketing |
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Post to the Forums |
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Post to the Fridge |
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Post to the planet |
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Change Current Issue Link |
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Change Current Issue number |
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Next Issue |
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add current issue to archives |
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See step 1 |
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Please do not modify the template without consulting the AmberGraner or JohnCrawford.
Beats
Core Articles
(cannot be dropped for a release)
- General community news
- Security announcements
- Upcoming meetings and events
Secondary
(can be dropped to release on time)
LoCo News - weekly encouragement to loco mailing list: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts)
- Launchpad News
- Specification Spotlight/Feature of the week (decided during the week in IRC or Mailing List)
- In the Press
Trivial
- Bug stats
Creating a new development copy
- Create it as soon as possible, to allow possible editing by new people
Use the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Template to start out.
During the Week
- Add content, encourge new people to add their own content
Pay attention to the Ideas page
- Write concisely (that's one of the things people like about UWN)
Pre-Release Checklist
- have all sections completed
- run a spellcheck
- FIX any FIXME tags
- check all images are in place and the links are valid
- All editors attributed at the bottom (this usually changes each week)
Sending the email
It must be sent to the ubuntu-news mailing list. The email is ubuntu-news@lists.ubuntu.com. The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is the only item that should be sent from this list. The Newsletter will caught in the spam filter and will need a list moderator to accept it.
When sending, send from your @ubuntu.com address, send ONLY in plain text.
Send to ubuntu-news@lists.ubuntu.com
Post Release
- Fix redirect at UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Current
Change UbuntuWeeklyNews to reflect new current
Update the Archive
Send an email to LoCo and Translators list
- Open up a forum thread with the UWN.
- Make sure it's posted in the Fridge