Another consideration: unless we push PMCs to be more active with announcements on the blogs, we may not have enough blog activity to generate a worthwhile monthly newsletter.
- Dave On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Dave <snoopd...@gmail.com> wrote: > I now have a Roller task that runs periodically, gathers up to 30 blog > entries from the last 30 days and then sends out an email that lists > each entry with a link and a short excerpt. It can be configured to > send out this email once a month and to only include blog entries with > one specific tag, e.g. 'newsletter' > > So, now the questions are about format, process and who does what. > > First, what format should the newsletter take, what title and content > should be shown in addition to the blog entry summaries? Doe we need > special signature, links, disclaimers? > > Next, what should the process be? Does somebody get the email, add > some cheerful chat at the start and then send it out or does the email > just go out automatically? I think the best approach might be for the > email to come to this mail list (dev@community.apache.org), then > somebody on the list steps up to draft a short snappy intro, tweaks > the format, maybe adds some special messages from the ASF and sends it > out to a wide audience. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > - Dave > > > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Ross Gardler <rgard...@apache.org> wrote: >> On 23/07/2010 13:37, Dave wrote: >>>> >>>> On 23/07/2010 12:45, Dave wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I've written a bunch of utilities like the one you describe. It's >>>>> pretty easy to implement a Roller scheduled task that fires >>>>> periodically, reads the most recent X entries in a tag, forms an email >>>>> and sends it out. Are those really the complete requirements. >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Ross Gardler<rgard...@apache.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> Pretty much, yes. I think it would be better to be teaser content rather >>>> than the complete content (there are RSS feeds for that). The idea is to >>>> provide a cross foundation summary of activities without requiring people >>>> to >>>> sift through all the project specific stuff. >>> >>> If you use Roller for the blog, you'd put teaser comment would go in >>> the "Summary" field and full content would go in the Content field. >> >> OK, sounds good and I can see what you mean in the system. >> >>>> On 23/07/2010 12:45, Dave wrote: >> >>> Either way should be easy with a Roller task we could pull from one >>> blog or the whole site. >> >> I really like the sound of that. I've sent a mail to run it past press@ >> (mostly out of courtesy). >> >> Ross >> >> >> -- >> rgard...@apache.org >> @rgardler >> >
