On 7/7/25 2:16 AM, ddemaio openSUSE wrote:
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
I missed this last meeting, though I think these are some good ideas. I
am going to think up a few I can publish on the topics of gaming, app
reviews, and other things to talk about within KDE Plasma. It would also
be neat to put together some stuff relating to Kalpa and other projects.
- Rachel Schrader
