And we go back 'round to the beginning... You may think this is news but how is not the same sort of promotion that is causing all of this hullabaloo?
Should we add news items for every significant work related to the project? What is "significant"? Should we add some news about the various open source add-ons and about derivative works like opentaps? People "spent many hour" on those. On a side note, I had no idea "hullabaloo" was a real word, but according to the Oxford American Dictionaries it is a real word and that's how it's spelled to boot. -David On Mar 17, 2010, at 7:46 PM, Ruth Hoffman wrote: > Hi Scott: > So, this gets really "sticky" because the publishing industry would say that > a "book" is a document that consists of a certain number of pages. I don't > remember exactly how many, but I think it something like 30+ pages. I know > that Sharan's manufacturing guide is in excess of 30 pages. I also know that > she spent many hours on this. By my reckoning, this is "news". This is the > first time that I know of that someone has written a piece in excess of one > or two HTML web pages that speaks directly about OFBiz manufacturing and MRP > features. Isn't that "news"? I mean isn't that great news! Someone has taken > the time to put this together and is offering it to the public? > > Regards, > Ruth > > Scott Gray wrote: >> I would most definitely class a book about OFBiz as news, it's not like they >> get published regularly. Assuming we go ahead and slim down the news >> section I would class news as being articles from a reputable news source or >> items of significant importance to the community (like a book being >> published). If there is ever any doubt about whether or not an item should >> go in there then I think we should just discuss it here on the dev or user >> list as a community. >> >> I still feel like we need some sort of guidelines for the wiki page that the >> ex-news items will go into, but I would really like the community to come up >> with the guidelines since apparently I'm too biased to be taken seriously. >> >> Regards >> Scott >> >> On 17/03/2010, at 6:32 PM, Sharan-F wrote: >> >> >>> Hi David >>> >>> If that's what the community wants then thats OK with me but I think we need >>> to define what 'news' is. For example is the book by Packt publishing >>> classed as news or promotional material? (To me its news but it also >>> promotes Packt) >>> >>> I think if there can be any ambiguity then we need something the say what is >>> acceptable and what is not. If Tim has this covered then great but I'd still >>> think it would be good to have something written somewhere so we're all >>> clear on what's what. >>> >>> Thanks >>> Sharan >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://n4.nabble.com/Proposal-Guidelines-for-News-Items-tp1597365p1597405.html >>> Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >> >>
