Hi all,
During our most recent community meeting
(https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting20250703), we discussed
the direction and potential expansion of news.opensuse.org. One idea
that emerged was to gradually evolve the site into something more akin
to fedoramagazine.org, which regularly highlights diverse use cases and
community-driven content beyond official project news.
While the current README for news.o.o
(https://github.com/openSUSE/news-o-o) outlines its role as a platform
for official project and distribution-related announcements, it
discourages tutorial-style content and articles focused on unofficial
repositories. That model has served us well for official communications,
but it may restrict the volume and variety of content we could be
sharing.
The meeting brought up the topic of us broadening this scope of what
news.opensuse.org publishes—without losing its purpose or credibility.
Articles and use cases around topics like:
Design and creative tools
Gaming on openSUSE
AI and machine learning workflows
Office productivity and desktop usage
Useful tools, extensions, and utilities
Science and education software
Movie editing and multimedia
Cool app showcases and reviews
…are all examples of what could make openSUSE more accessible,
especially to new users looking for relatable, real-world inspiration.
A recent community-contributed article draft—"Running a Local LLM with
openSUSE"
(https://deploy-preview-374--news-o-o-preview.netlify.app/2025/07/04/local-llm-with-opensuse/)
by Onuralp—serves as a working example of the type of content we’d like
to encourage. We are asking:
Would you support expanding the scope of content on
news.opensuse.org?
What rules, limitations, or editorial guidelines should we keep in
place?
Should we create a clearer separation between “official” and
“community-driven” articles?
What concerns should we consider, especially around quality,
promotion or moderation?
Ultimately, the goal is to enrich sharing more openSUSE stories for
people who use it every day. If you're interested in contributing
content or helping support this, we'd love to hear from you.
Looking forward to any feedback, ideas or replies.
v/r
Doug
