{"id":5897,"date":"2012-04-21T09:40:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T16:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=5897"},"modified":"2016-11-03T10:43:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T17:43:44","slug":"the-ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-needs-you-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2012\/04\/the-ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-needs-you-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Needs You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in August I wrote a post &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=4859\">News is hard, but we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re making it easier<\/a>&#8221; regarding improvements to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>At the time I defined some todo list items, which I now have updates on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter wiki\n<ul>\n<li>Make sure workflow is properly documented <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter\/EditingPolicies\">DONE<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Confirm team contact information has been updated <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/NewsTeam\/Contact\">DONE<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Review instructions for how to get involved <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter\/Join\">DONE<\/a><\/li>\n<li>General clean-up for clarity <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter\">DONE<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Train additional releasers INPROGRESS<\/li>\n<li>Redefine team structure and leadership <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntu-news-leadership\">DONE<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/ubuntu\/newspaper-icon41.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I think one of the most exciting things about this reorganization is the formal decentralization of a single editor in chief running the whole thing. Unfortunately this is largely in name only, as there are still only 2 people who can complete the full publishing routine and if I&#8217;m unavailable I need to plan accordingly to make sure we have volunteers available to coordinate the preparation. I&#8217;d really like to move past this because it&#8217;s not sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>We need more volunteers doing <strong>summary writing<\/strong> and <strong>editing<\/strong> so we can complete the newsletter in a timely manner each week (and can actually complete it to our highest standards, last week we had to forgo summaries on two full sections of the newsletter because we didn&#8217;t have enough people to write them). We also wish to have a wider pool to draw from when it comes to experienced folks to train on the release process as most of our volunteers have very limited time to contribute.<\/p>\n<p>See this page for details of each and how you can help out: <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter\/Join\">https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter\/Join<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Email me at lyz@ubuntu.com if you have any questions, comments, suggestions or anything. Feel free to drop by #ubuntu-news on chat.freenode.net if you want to get a feel for the team or ask other questions (as always with IRC, please be patient when waiting for replies, we&#8217;re a small team and not always around to reply!).<\/p>\n<p>Finally, huge thanks to everyone who is currently involved with the team and recently joined. We recently had Matt Rudge join us as a wonderfully thorough editor, Charles Profitt stepped up while I was traveling to collect links and has been working on summaries, Amber Graner is reliably available for releasing when I&#8217;m not, Chris Druif has been maintaining our Ubuntu Flavors meetings section, Jose Antonio Rey recently started maintaining a Spanish translation and Benjamin Kerensa (who also works on Dev news) has stepped up to be trained on releasing. And of course our hard-working summary writers (and sometimes editors!) Nathan Dyer, Neil Oosthuizen, Emma Marshall, Unit193 and others who don&#8217;t explicitly put their name in the credits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in August I wrote a post &#8220;News is hard, but we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re making it easier&#8221; regarding improvements to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. 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