[03:06]  * nhandler is doing the release now
[05:28] <pleia2> woohoo, great job everyone!
[05:41] <nhandler> I was thinking, what if we posted all of the stories we include in UWN to the fridge throughout the week? We would probably want to change what feed we have going to the planet (and create a planet-ubuntu category), but this would make the Fridge more of a new portal. We could then have a script pull the week's posts, sort them into the UWN sections (based on WP tags/categories), and prepare an issue. UWN would then be ...
[05:41] <nhandler> ... more of a weekly digest
[05:42] <nhandler> We could use the excerpt feature of WP to write the summaries
[05:57] <pleia2> the trouble with that is currently the only stuff that's pulled throughout the week is planet stuff
[05:57] <pleia2> and I just do that as I idly wander through my rss reader, which is sometimes day, sometimes thursday night...
[05:57] <pleia2> if we had more volunteers maybe that would be something to work toward though
[05:58] <pleia2> s/day/daily
[05:59] <nhandler> pleia2: Ideally, we would be posting everything as we find it (as a live fridge would be the most useful). But in terms of UWN, as long as the stores are there by publication time, it would not matter
[08:52] <MooDoo> morning all
[11:06] <NRWlion> heyhow from germany!
[11:10] <MooDoo> hull from uk :)
[11:11] <MooDoo> hullo even :)
[11:34] <MrChrisDruif> Aloha from Holland
[11:51] <NRWlion> multilingual presence
[12:02] <MooDoo> yay o/
[12:36] <NRWlion> hi jono
[15:15] <nhandler> I'd appreciate feedback (especially from the people who have been helping out with UWN lately) on the email I just sent to the news-team ML
[15:17] <MooDoo> ah not signed up for it yet!!!!
[15:20] <nhandler> MooDoo: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2011-June/001333.html (but you really should consider subscribing)
[15:21] <MooDoo> nhandler, yes i meant to, i'll do it now :)
[17:23] <pleia2> replied, licensing is actually our bigger concern
[17:29] <nhandler> pleia2: The licensing issue isn't really that UWN related. That is more of a generic issue of posting things to the fridge from a wider range of sources (which we have talked on-and-off about doing for a while). I'm no license expert, but blogs that don't want their stories showing up anywhere besides their blog, should we really be including them in UWN (from a legal sense)? If it is fine to put it in UWN, is there ...
[17:29] <nhandler> ... anything stopping us from posting just a summary in the excerpt box on the fridge (not full-text) and having the "read the full story" link send them to the original blog?
[17:30] <pleia2> legally summaries and linking are fine, exact copying of copywrited material is not, if we were copying full content of blogs into UWN we'd have a problem too
[17:31] <nhandler> pleia2: So posting just a summary/excerpt to the fridge would be fine
[17:31] <pleia2> so sure, we could put just a summary and link on fridge, but that doesn't help us with saving summary writing time
[17:34] <nhandler> pleia2: No. But it allows people to become aware of these posts in real time throughout the week. WP also has a bit better archiving/search functionality. Summary writers and people finding links will be putting in about the same amount of time. It is pre and post publication that we save some time. Having it on the fridge also would allow us to provide custom UWN subscription options to people (like we talked about a ...
[17:34] <nhandler> ... while ago), so they could subscribe to just specific sections and receive it on their schedule (i.e. every day, weekly, monthly, etc)
[17:34] <scott_ev> nhandler: how can I be of service here again?
[17:35] <scott_ev> I can work during the week
[17:35] <nhandler> scott_ev: We aren't really doing much work right now (just published UWN yesterday). Feedback on my recent email to the news-team ML would be appreciated. We could also always use help finding links and writing summaries
[17:37] <scott_ev> ok, since I wasn't part of this recent publication, I don't have any feedback on the process
[17:40] <nhandler> scott_ev: If you follow any blogs/news sources that are not on Planet Ubuntu, links to stories from those sources are definitely appreciated. We tend to have a more difficult time with those
[17:41] <scott_ev> alright, I can do some recon
[17:46] <nhandler> Thanks a lot scott_ev, much appreciated. It is good to see you back here again
[17:47] <pleia2> nhandler: I'm unconvinced, I'll think about this some
[17:47] <scott_ev> thanks, I've been away way too long
[17:47] <nhandler> pleia2: That is fine. I might play around with it (via draft posts)
[17:48] <pleia2> I've always seen UWN and Fridge as different things (much like debian.org/News/ and Debian Project News), so merging them is troublesome for how I view them
[17:48] <pleia2> and I don't have time during the week to help
[17:50] <pleia2> speaking of which! work time :)
[19:53] <MooDoo> yay signed up to the mailing list