Comments on: Can you write article summaries for Ubuntu Weekly News?

By: pleia2

pleia2 — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:58:42 +0000

Ah cool. You have to be logged in with your Google account for you to be non-Anonymous, so people who can’t or won’t use a Google account won’t be able to get notifications.

We’ll do some experiments :)

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:46:36 +0000

I think you can get notified of changes though. I did my first summaries today and it looks like everyone was anonymous. So, I’m not sure how notifications would work with that.

But you can have notifications done via “discussions.” So maybe the discussion is “Summary time: 8/14.” Also, neat thing about discussions is you can set them to “resolved.”

I’m subscribed to the summary doc (guessing it’s the same each week) if you want to experiment and I can tell you if I received a ping.

By: DraZoro

DraZoro — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:08:55 +0000

This is definetly a project I have to try. I have not done any work for ubuntu community. I just hope I have what it takes to contribute.

By: pleia2

pleia2 — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:48:27 +0000

That’s pretty much how it works, but there aren’t direct notifications from the google doc for when it’s ready for people to write summaries, so they’d have to keep checking manually. I figured sending an email when it’s ready is better for everyone :)

By: Daeng Bo

Daeng Bo — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:21:23 +0000

Why don’t you have interested parties just join the Google document directly and divvy up the work there? Is there a downside to that I’m not seeing?