Joining the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Team

Workflow Overview

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is read widely by the Ubuntu community and many members of the media.

The team collaborates largely on IRC in #ubuntu-news on irc.freenode.net.

Each week contributors collaborate on this Google Document to collect links from the week. Anyone may add links here, but please do not delete any.

On Friday and Saturday these links are reviewed and reorganized.

Over the weekend summary writers are contacted. If you'd like to be a summary writer, subscribe to ubuntu-news-team mailing list and contact the editors at editor.ubuntu.news@ubuntu.com to get your name on a list of summary writers who are emailed weekly.

The full process for publishing the Ubuntu Weekly News is defined here: UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/EditingPolicies/SuggestedHowToEdit

This is divided into the following jobs individuals can take.

Jobs

Link Collectors

Collect links (see Link Suggestions) and add to https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AdKZelXU8Y2LZGNrcHRkYmhfODlkODNxNnRnZA&hl=en

These can be collected throughout the week.

Details: Steps 10-16

Summary Writers

Write summaries for the links which were collected

Stats Collector

Runs a series of scripts and visits sites to collect statistics.

Details: Steps 4-9

Editors

Go through newsletter to add finishing pieces and check for spelling and grammar errors

Details: Steps 17-22

Releaser

Actually releases the newsletter via wiki, email, IRC, etc

Details: Steps 23-38

Then rotates and preps the newsletter template on wiki between releases

Details: Steps 1-3 and 39-42