Hey We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter and I think it is time to ask YOU ( the reader ) what we can improve. The current trend is away from really technical details more to a light read and entertaining stuff. Is this a good way to go. Or should we focus more on the technical side again*. Or is the balance right? What do you want to read about? What sections do you want? Or just comment. I am happy about any constructive criticism. I hope you are enjoying the Newsletter. Cheers Didi *Of course the we will not become a only fun Newsletter. ---- My www page: www.ribalba.de Email / Jabber: ribalba at gmail.com Skype : ribalba
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 01:29:56PM +0100, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote:> > We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter and I think > it is time to ask YOU ( the reader ) what we can improve. The current > trend is away from really technical details more to a light read and > entertaining stuff. Is this a good way to go. Or should we focus more > on the technical side again*. Or is the balance right?I greatly enjoyed this month's newsletter, especially the hacker diary. :) It's nice to see the events and "in the news" items too. While I understand the temptation to do more technical items, I'm not sure if that's how the newsletter was conceived. I can see the newsletter being more of a meta item, not necessarily for help using CentOS, but for help on knowing what's going on. So I personally am happy with how it's going so far, but I can sympathize with those who want a more technical letter. IOW, I like that the newsletter is a high-level view, where the centos at centos mailing list I see as a nuts-n-bolts view. I'd like to contribute, but I need to figure out what I can do first. Did your friend ever get his personal web site up? ;-) --keith -- kkeller at speakeasy.net
Hi,> We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter [...]What newsletter are you referring to? I cannot find any newsletter offer on centos.org. frank
Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote:> Hey > > We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter and I think > it is time to ask YOU ( the reader ) what we can improve. The current > trend is away from really technical details more to a light read and > entertaining stuff. Is this a good way to go. Or should we focus more > on the technical side again*. Or is the balance right? > > What do you want to read about? What sections do you want? Or just > comment. I am happy about any constructive criticism. > > I hope you are enjoying the Newsletter. > > Cheers Didi > > > *Of course the we will not become a only fun Newsletter. > > ---- > > My www page: www.ribalba.de > Email / Jabber: ribalba at gmail.com > Skype : ribalba > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centosI would like to echo the thoughts of Keith and Mathieu. I am a long time CentOS user and lurker in the list. To me, the newsletter feels like a top-view of CentOS and the community, and I like it. A few ideas to ponder: - I could see the newsletter being a great platform for the lead maintainers to keep us informed - Mathieu's idea of soliciting a publishing success stories, real-life deployment stories, and the like would be very interesting to me Bottom line: You are doing a great job, and I like The Pulse's direction. Andy Hull
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann <ribalba at gmail.com> wrote:> Hey > > We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter and I think > it is time to ask YOU ( the reader ) what we can improve. The current > trend is away from really technical details more to a light read and > entertaining stuff. Is this a good way to go. Or should we focus more > on the technical side again*. Or is the balance right? > > What do you want to read about? What sections do you want? Or just > comment. I am happy about any constructive criticism. > > I hope you are enjoying the Newsletter. > > Cheers Didi >Overall, I think it's very good. I'd like to report a small erratum: The link to "A view of the free and non free Linux market (Not the view of CentOS)" is wrong (Same as "Oracle and Novel..."). Thanks, Jim