On 12/27/01 7:51 PM, "Rob Oxspring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 12:25 AM >> To: Jakarta General List >> Subject: Re: Jakarta Newsletter >> >> >> >> Don't give up too easily :) >> >> I'll help if you want. We can co-opt others by simply asking >> them to write >> a short note about what's going on in the various projects. >> Everyone likes >> to write about themselves, and we can just glom the stuff together, >> wordsmith here and there, and then we have a nice little newsletter that >> tells what's going on where.... > > This sounds like a sensible starting point to me - giving a flavour of what > is going on is all I'm really after. > >> >> So if you are game for an approach like this, I'll help, and we can get >> started immediately... > > Sounds good to me, I'm fairly sure I could come up with something > appropriate for ant-dev and commons-dev but anything on any other list would > be appreciated, and I guess an open letter to the other mailing lists might > get a few projects to "write about themselves". How often should such a > newsletter go out though? every week seems a bit of a commitment (yeah I > know I'm lazy) maybe monthly would be more approptiate... either way it > seems that not too much has been going on over xmas so I guess that mid to > end of January might be a good target for issue 1. > > Anyway, I think i'll get some sleep before getting too carried away... > > Rob This is good. I think monthly would be great to start. You write up ant and commons, I'll do Velocity and I'll solicit something from the other groups. If there is nothing to report, then there is nothing to report. No biggie. We'll see how the first one goes, and tweak as we go along. geir -- Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] System and Software Consulting You're going to end up getting pissed at your software anyway, so you might as well not pay for it. Try Open Source. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
