On Dec 29, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 6:19 PM, kay.schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > > <snip> > > I wonder whether it would be worth reviving the OpenOffice Newsletter? > This was sent out to the old announce list. It was erratic toward > the end, but at one point I think it was coming out every month. > > Some examples: > > March 2011: > http://openoffice.org/projects/www/lists/announce/archive/2011-03/message/0 > > December 2010: > http://openoffice.org/projects/www/lists/announce/archive/2010-12/message/0 > > September 2010: > http://openoffice.org/projects/www/lists/announce/archive/2010-09/message/0 > > A format like that allows us to bundle a few small posts, news > clippings, announcements, etc., into a fuller package, maybe with > greater impact. > > For example, we could a series of these over the next few months: > > Newsletter #1: Intro to OpenOffice @ Apache. Announcements on > migration, copyleft-free build, start of test effort, links to blog, > mailing lists, migration status, announcement of pending retirement of > openoffice.org email addresses and lists, etc. > > Newsletter #2 (a month later): availability of test builds for 3.4 > (hopefully on Windows by then), how to help with test effort, reminder > on mailing list migration and mail forwarding shutdown. Gathering > proposals for AOO 4.0. > > Newsletter #3 -- coverage of 3.4 release, press clippings, etc. > > A newsletter could be put together on the wiki and then the > announcement can be a link to the online newsletter. > > I think this has merit. Can we find a voluneteer? > > ps. My earlier attempt at trying to directly post to annou...@openoffice.org > is apparently SPAM and therefor rejected. I hope Andrew had some luck. I'll > track this down in a bit. > > > It looks like it went out earlier to the announce list. I see it in the > archives: > > http://openoffice.org/projects/www/lists/announce/archive/2011-12/message/0 > > I'm also seeing large numbers of users now signed up to ooo-announce.
What do you mean by large? It is advertised on www.openoffice.org ... Regards, Dave > > -Rob > > > > > > > //drew > > > > > > > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MzK > > "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged > by the way its animals are treated." > -- Mohandas Gandhi > > > >
