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nhandlerSo, just a reminder that we have a meeting tomorrow00:49
nhandlerI should be there, but I might be in and out a bit00:49
pleia2me too01:04
akgranerHey all  - Reminder meeting tonight - 2300 UTC here :-)  Hope you all can make it!  There is a lot to discuss!  If you think you would like to help publish (edit and announce it to all the places) the newsletter please add your name to the list (link will be available after the meeting tonight). Then we can figure out who needs training on what and get a training schedule together.  Thanks in advance!20:03
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cjohnstonakgraner: ping21:22
akgranercjohnston, pong?  was this about the calender?22:52
cjohnstonyes22:53
akgranerk22:53
akgraner7 minutes til the meeting :-)22:53
cjohnstonI'm here.. It's Daddy daycare though.22:53
* pleia2 waves22:57
cjohnston36 hours no sleep sucks22:57
akgraner:-)  no worries!22:57
akgranerhey pleia2 :-)22:57
cjohnstonding ding ding23:00
akgraner#startmeeting23:01
Mootbot-UKMeeting started at 23:01. The chair is akgraner.23:01
Mootbot-UKCommands Available: [TOPIC], [PROGRESS REPORT], [IDEA], [ACTION], [AGREED], [LINK], [VOTE]23:01
akgranerhi everyone thanks for joining the news team meeting23:01
akgranerthe agenda for this meeting can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Meetings23:01
akgranerwe may not go in that exact order as I'll do my best to group related topics together23:02
akgranerso who is here for the meeting?23:02
cjohnstono/23:02
cjohnstonyay23:03
cjohnstonwhat do i win23:03
akgranerok so it's been a while since our last meeting and there are many new and exciting things23:03
akgraner[TOPIC]  - Improving UWN Survey Results23:04
Mootbot-UKNew Topic:   - Improving UWN Survey Results23:04
akgraner[LINK] - http://akgraner.com/?p=82023:04
Mootbot-UKLINK received:  - http://akgraner.com/?p=82023:04
akgranernot sure how many of you all were able to review this results, but based on these answers (as well as the free form answers - which I still need to send to the list), I wanted to propose various changes to the UWN template23:05
akgranerany comments so far from anyone who has reviewed the survey results?23:06
cjohnstonnope23:06
akgranerif you get a chance please look over the survey and should you have comments or questions please bring them up  - before Monday (as this is when the next issue will be released)23:08
akgraner[TOPIC] - Revising UWN Template Based on Survey Feedback23:08
Mootbot-UKNew Topic:  - Revising UWN Template Based on Survey Feedback23:08
akgraner[LINK] - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/IssueTemplate23:09
Mootbot-UKLINK received:  - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/IssueTemplate23:09
akgranerthe link above is the current UWN Template23:09
akgranerI had every intention showing an example of the new proposed template but I ran out of daylight - I'll work on that one tonight before I send the logs out so everyone will have a chance to see it before publication on Monday23:10
akgranerYou can see from the survey which sections are the least read23:11
cjohnstonI'm assuming the ones with the highest vote of not read are going to be cut?23:12
pleia2I think it's worth noting that even ones which "weren't read" much we still have 50+ people saying they read them23:12
akgranerthese sections - Monthly team reports, Upcoming Meetings and events, updates and security, for example can be represented with links to those wiki pages/archives/calendars rather than listing them all out23:12
pleia214% (the lowest) of readers is nothing to sneeze at23:12
akgranerpleia2, correct - but the biggest complaint is UWN is too long23:13
* pleia2 nods23:13
pleia2events and updates I absolutely agree should be put elsewhere - not least of which because they sometimes change23:14
akgranerso if on the fridge we are giving links to the sections that are listed in "In this Issue" so people can just click on the sections they want to read, my thought was this would fit into that model really well23:14
pleia2and raising the profile of the community calendars is always a good idea :)23:14
akgranerpleia2, yeppers exactly :-) if we can drive more traffic and raise the awareness of various Ubuntu resources that are available then as I see it it's a win-win23:16
internalkernelo/23:16
internalkernelsorry...23:16
akgranerinternalkernel, no worries  - just glad you could join the meeting23:17
akgranerso how does this sound- I'll revise the template and let everyone compare/contrast the two version - and offer feedback between now and Sunday.  How does that sound to everyone?23:18
cjohnston+123:18
internalkernel+123:18
pleia2+123:18
akgraner[ACTION] akgraner to revise UWN template and send link with meeting logs to mailing list23:19
Mootbot-UKACTION received:  akgraner to revise UWN template and send link with meeting logs to mailing list23:19
akgraner[TOPIC] - Rotating Editing Publishers List23:20
Mootbot-UKNew Topic:  - Rotating Editing Publishers List23:20
akgranerwhich brings me to the next topic - who wants to learn to publish UWN so no one person is always responsible to getting the final version out23:21
cjohnstonI will23:21
pleia2I would like to learn the process, but it would be difficult for me to find the time to actually step up and be a regular, rotating editor23:22
zkriesseoop, Im here now23:22
akgranerthe following *topics* on the agenda sorta fall within this topic for discussion so here is what I was thinking23:22
internalkernelpleia2:  ditto...23:22
akgraner1) revise the steps so they aren't so intimidating at first glance23:23
akgraner2) break up the process so various team members can publish/update some of the areas at the same time - ie one person posting to fridge, while someone else is posting to forums, and someone else is sending to mailing list etc23:24
akgranerso instead of it being step 1, step 2, step 3 etc23:25
pleia2making it modular does make sense23:25
akgranerall those steps can be done by different people - then people rotate those areas and by doing this every eventually learns all the steps anyway23:26
akgranerwithout it being an overwhelming or all day process for someone23:26
akgraneralso by making it easier for people to contribute, simplify the how, as well as mentioned earlier revise the template to make it easier to edit etc23:28
akgranerthen it should in theory at least, not burn anyone out23:28
akgranerthoughts?23:28
pleia2sounds good23:28
cjohnstonsounds good23:29
akgranernhandler, ping are you available?23:29
akgranernhandler, had listed a couple topics about the team reports for UWN and the reporting process - we'll skip those for now and come back to them if there is time23:30
akgraneranything else about UWN before we move onto the Fridge topics?23:31
akgraner[TOPIC] - ubuntu-news.org / Fridge23:32
Mootbot-UKNew Topic:  - ubuntu-news.org / Fridge23:32
cjohnstonIs it going to be UN?23:32
cjohnstonsorry23:32
akgranerahh thanks for the reminder23:32
akgraner[TOPIC] Proposed UWN name change and publishing schedule23:33
Mootbot-UKNew Topic:  Proposed UWN name change and publishing schedule23:33
akgranerso when I talked to jono about me stepping down as Editor in Chief - one of the things we discussed was publishing bi-weekly and changing the name to Ubuntu Newsletter23:34
cjohnston+123:34
akgranerany other thoughts? comments? other ideas?23:35
akgraneras I am not going to be able to contribute as much this cycle the burden for publishing really falls to you all and the rest of the team - so this was not a decision I wanted to make for everyone23:36
pleia2seems like a good idea23:37
internalkernel+1 as well23:37
pleia2if the number of commited volunteers increases we can go back to it being weekly, but calling it "Ubuntu Weekly News" removes the burden of having to do it weekly23:38
akgranernods23:38
pleia2I think right now we simply don't have a choice, we can't do it weekly with the team we have23:38
akgranernods23:39
internalkerneland theres something to be said about being a bit more picky about content and a larger window makes that available23:39
akgranercorrect as well23:39
akgraneranything else on UWN before we move back to the fridge topic?23:40
pleia2(btw: I am working on the natty post for the fridge at the moment)23:40
pleia2alpha123:40
akgranerpleia2, thanks - yep I just posted it for work before the meeting23:40
akgranerpleia2, thank you!23:40
akgraner[TOPIC] ubuntu-news.org /fridge23:41
Mootbot-UKNew Topic:  ubuntu-news.org /fridge23:41
akgranerok so ubuntu-news.org site code has been reviewed by the Canonical IS team and we have been provided a link to the test site on the Canonical Servers23:42
akgranerI know myself, pleia2, and nhandler have had the opportunity to *test* the new Fridge on the Canonical server - what other Fridge Editors would like access before we go live with this?23:43
akgraneralso pleia2 and nhandler besides SSO issues is there any other questions or comments that we need to send to IS?23:43
pleia2I haven't tested actually making a post, I'd like to do so with an image to make sure that's all working ok23:44
akgraneroh live being what you see on ubuntu-news.org (which is already live and being maintained) becomes fridge.ubuntu.com23:44
akgranerI hope that makes sense and y'all know what I mean?23:45
akgranerpleia2, +1 - I was going to test links and stuff this weekend as well23:46
akgranerpleia2, can I list you in addition to me as a contact for the other fridge editors to contact if they want access to test site?23:46
pleia2akgraner: yep23:46
akgranergreat thanks!23:47
pleia2and I should be available more this month, december is my peaceful month :)23:48
akgranernhandler has also taken the time to write up a "How to Contribute to the Fridge" document. For some reason I am not finding the link to it but will include it in the logs23:48
pleia2I think it's still private (unless it was moved to the wiki?)23:49
akgraneriirc it's ready to be moved over, but I'll double check before posting it publicly23:50
* pleia2 nods23:51
akgranerso is there any questions, comments, thoughts about the ubuntu-news.org or fridge.ubuntu.com sites?23:51
pleia2thank you for spending so much time working with canonical to make this happen :)23:52
internalkernelwhat pleia2 said, thanks!23:53
akgranerMost welcome - I learned a lot - about websites, Canonical IS and even myself :-)  So, I know we need some more active Fridge Editors suggestions on how to make this happen?23:53
nhandlero/23:55
akgranerright now I think nhandler, pleia2 and highvoltage are the ones contributing - I know there is a process, does the process need revising? Or do the current fridge editors just need to nominate more people?23:55
nhandlerSorry about being late, I thought the meeting was an hour later for some reason23:55
pleia2the process has people nominate themselves and then we bring them on board23:55
akgranerhey nhandler you made it! Yay! (if no one minds staying 15-20 minutes longer we can circle back around to nhandler 's topics.23:56
akgranernhandler, daylight savings time seems to have messed up a couple of the meeting times (sorry I thought I had fixed them all)23:56
nhandlerakgraner: No problem. I'll read the backlog and give feedback/comments where appropriate later23:56
akgranernhandler, thank you!23:57
nhandlerm/5123:57
cjohnstonShould UN publishers have fridge access?23:57
nhandlerI think that came up a few meetings ago23:57
cjohnstonWell, now that we are going to a rotating publisher model thing23:58
nhandlerI thought we determined that they could definitely go ahead and apply and go through the training process, but it shouldn't just be automatic23:58
cjohnstonok23:58
pleia2nhandler: +123:58
akgranernhandler, yep I was going to say that23:58
akgraneralso with the Fridge being a WP site we can give new publisher  - fridge access to only contribute and posts will have to be reviewed before they are posted23:59
nhandlerYep. FYI, we have an ubuntu account (username: ubuntu pass:ubuntu) that does just that23:59
akgranerthen they can go from contributor, to author, to editor (i think that is the right order)23:59

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