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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Checklist
Steps |
How to start each week |
1 |
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2 |
Clear out unused sections |
3 |
Add Images to the wiki |
4 |
Send out reminder emails |
5 |
LoCo Teams |
6 |
Reminder Blog Post |
7 |
Welcome |
8 |
In this Issue |
9 |
Bug Stats |
10 |
Translation Stats Lucid |
11 |
Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week |
12 |
LoCo News |
13 |
Launchpad News |
14 |
Ubuntu Forums News |
15 |
The Planet |
16 |
In The Press |
17 |
In The Blogosphere |
18 |
In Other News |
19 |
Monthly Team Reports |
20 |
Upcoming Meetings and Events |
21 |
Updates and Security |
22 |
Credits |
After 1-22 are complete |
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23 |
Proof Issue you and 2 others |
24 |
Double Check all links to make sure they are valid |
25 |
Spell Check issue |
26 |
Take out wiki commented out lines |
27 |
In a Text editor take out the marks |
28 |
Save a text version as uwnissuenumerin.txt (uwn195in.txt) |
29 |
Send the the -news mailing list |
30 |
Once it goes out on this list sent notice to news-team ML |
31 |
IRC -locoteams |
32 |
IRC-news |
33 |
IRC-us |
34 |
IRC-marketing |
35 |
Post to the Forums |
36 |
Post to the Fridge |
37 |
Post to the planet |
38 |
Dent/Tweet/FB other Social Media announcement |
39 |
Email LoCo-Contacts mailing list |
40 |
Email Translators Team |
After steps 23-40 are complete |
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Change Current Issue Link |
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Change Current Issue number |
43 |
Next Issue ** |
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add current issue to archives |
45 |
See step 1 |
* To see the checklist spreadsheet click here
** Please do not modify the template without consulting the AmberGraner.
HOWTO for Checklist
For the HOWTO Guide for each Step click here
Schedule
Schedule for Upcoming UWN Issues can be found here.
Section Definitions and Suggestions
Guidelines for each section can be found here.
Other
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
- 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