20:00:05 <stickster> #startmeeting Magazine editorial board 20:00:05 <zodbot> Meeting started Wed Jun 6 20:00:05 2018 UTC. 20:00:05 <zodbot> This meeting is logged and archived in a public location. 20:00:05 <zodbot> The chair is stickster. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 20:00:05 <zodbot> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 20:00:05 <zodbot> The meeting name has been set to 'magazine_editorial_board' 20:00:07 <stickster> #meetingname magazine 20:00:07 <zodbot> The meeting name has been set to 'magazine' 20:00:10 <stickster> #topic Roll call 20:00:11 <cverna> hello 20:00:12 <stickster> .hello pfrields 20:00:13 <zodbot> stickster: pfrields 'Paul W. Frields' <stickster@gmail.com> 20:00:26 <stickster> #chair cverna ryanlerch sub_pop[m] 20:00:26 <zodbot> Current chairs: cverna ryanlerch stickster sub_pop[m] 20:01:37 <ryanlerch> .hello ryanlerch 20:01:38 <zodbot> ryanlerch: ryanlerch 'Ryan Lerch' <rlerch@redhat.com> 20:01:42 <ryanlerch> morning! 20:02:01 <ryanlerch> morning stickster! 20:02:31 <stickster> o/ 20:02:43 * stickster plunges ahead for the heck of it 20:02:48 <stickster> #topic Last week's stats 20:03:31 <stickster> #info Week of May 28: ~68.7K page views, a little up from previous week despite holiday! 20:03:42 <ryanlerch> yay! 20:03:49 <stickster> #info Month of May 2018: 400,593 views -- best month ever! 20:04:02 <ryanlerch> up near that 60-70K a week since the release 20:04:10 <ryanlerch> rather than 45ish before 20:04:16 <ryanlerch> 400K woo! 20:04:26 <cverna> \o/ 20:04:40 <stickster> exactly. it's a good trend to be on. And that monthly record is despite some goofs on our part. So we can be pretty happy about the trend :-) 20:05:37 <ryanlerch> 2014, we only had 600K 20:05:43 <ryanlerch> the whole year 20:05:51 <stickster> wow. some change, Mr. Lerch! 20:05:58 <cverna> we have already 1.5 million views 20:06:21 <stickster> #info looks like all last week's action items were done 20:06:23 <stickster> #link https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/magazine/magazine.2018-05-30-20.00.html 20:06:57 <stickster> Should we look at posts and scheduling? 20:07:08 <cverna> yes 20:07:17 <stickster> #topic Pending review posts 20:07:22 <cverna> see what we have ready 20:07:29 <stickster> https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=pending&post_type=post 20:07:39 <stickster> #info --- HDYF --- 20:07:51 <stickster> #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=21511&preview=1&_ppp=3a8adf8fe6 20:08:44 <stickster> Pretty cut and dried -- another interview from cprofitt -- awesome! 20:09:26 <ryanlerch> yeah +1 from me. cprofitt++ as alaways 20:09:26 <zodbot> ryanlerch: Karma for cprofitt changed to 2 (for the f28 release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 20:09:40 <cverna> +1 too 20:09:58 <cverna> cprofitt++ 20:09:59 <zodbot> cverna: Karma for cprofitt changed to 3 (for the f28 release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 20:10:06 <stickster> #agreed HDYF is good to go anytime 20:10:08 <stickster> cprofitt++ 20:10:08 <zodbot> stickster: Karma for cprofitt changed to 4 (for the f28 release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 20:10:51 <stickster> #action stickster do quick edit pass on HDYF interview, which will only take a couple minutes -- normal photo image of subject seems ready 20:11:23 <stickster> #topic Drafts to review 20:11:25 <stickster> #link https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=post 20:12:24 <stickster> Oof -- unfortunately no finished articles here to review, but several good already-approved pitches 20:12:32 <stickster> sub_pop[m] has one on color calibration 20:12:41 <stickster> cverna has one on docs CI/CD 20:12:58 <stickster> and Georg Hasibether one on personal finance managers that looks excellent 20:13:18 <cverna> yeah I ll move this one holding pen since I still need feedback from bex on that 20:13:55 <stickster> cverna: ah, OK 20:14:11 <stickster> #topic Pitches to review 20:14:25 <stickster> #undo 20:14:25 <zodbot> Removing item from minutes: <MeetBot.items.Topic object at 0x7f53f5075090> 20:14:30 <stickster> Ah, several pitches have wrong status 20:15:20 <stickster> #info --- Raspberry PI 3B+ --- 20:15:23 <stickster> #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=21602&preview=1&_ppp=65b548f09e 20:15:34 <stickster> ksinny took this one over and has revised it quite a bit as we hoped 20:16:31 <cverna> +1, it looks good 20:16:47 <stickster> I would say with an edit and an image this would be ready to go 20:17:01 <ryanlerch> +1 too -- this is good! 20:17:14 <ryanlerch> def something that will have staying power 20:17:24 <cverna> ksinny++ 20:17:24 <zodbot> cverna: Karma for sinnykumari changed to 12 (for the f28 release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 20:17:24 <ryanlerch> search friendly 20:17:32 <ryanlerch> ksinny++ 20:17:32 <zodbot> ryanlerch: Karma for sinnykumari changed to 13 (for the f28 release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 20:17:41 <stickster> ksinny++ 20:17:45 <stickster> indeed! 20:17:59 <ryanlerch> stickster: i can do the image for this one 20:18:18 <stickster> ryanlerch: OK. I can probably edit this as well unless cverna wants to take it -- shouldn't take long 20:19:11 <stickster> #action stickster edit RPi 3B+ article, ryanlerch do the image 20:19:13 <cverna> when do we want to publish it 20:19:33 <stickster> cverna: I figured we'd wait and see at the end... might not be on Monday, we have some other possibilities here 20:19:46 <stickster> let me switch topics and it'll be clearer 20:19:50 <stickster> #topic Pitches to review 20:19:50 <cverna> ok if this is for next week I can take the edition 20:20:14 <stickster> #link https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=pitch&post_type=post 20:20:35 <stickster> #info --- Kernel 4.17 test day --- 20:20:37 <stickster> #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=21599&preview=1&_ppp=b06e0d1ee3 20:21:09 <stickster> This one's for a test day happening next Tuesday, so we may want to push the article this Friday... push out HDYF and the RPi article 20:21:30 * stickster is +1 (no brainer) on this article, haven't had one in ~2 months 20:21:41 <cverna> yes +1 20:21:56 <ryanlerch> yeah +1 20:22:01 <stickster> #agreed Test Day article approved, we can turn this around fast 20:22:14 <ryanlerch> i can copy edit this one 20:25:03 <ryanlerch> tap tap tap is this on 20:26:38 <ryanlerch> .hello ryanlerch 20:26:39 <zodbot> ryanlerch: ryanlerch 'Ryan Lerch' <rlerch@redhat.com> 20:26:43 <stickster> oops, sorry ryanlerch -- got pinged 20:26:48 <stickster> I'm back 20:26:59 <stickster> #action ryanlerch copy-edit Test Day article for this Friday 20:27:11 <ryanlerch> oh! sorry -- IRC being flaky yesterday -- thought it was happeneing agian! 20:27:15 <ryanlerch> sorry1 20:27:17 <cverna> I was distracted too :) 20:27:40 <stickster> #info --- LibreOffice pitch --- 20:27:54 <stickster> #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=21561&preview=1&_ppp=a6cd544b48 20:28:19 <stickster> #info stickster emailed the pitch author to explain that we wanted something more user-focused 20:29:31 <stickster> haven't heard back 20:29:41 <ryanlerch> stickster: :( 20:29:58 <stickster> it was just yesterday morning though, so not giving up hope yet 20:30:13 <cverna> yes let's give it a bit more time 20:30:18 <stickster> similarly with sayan's AWS article 20:30:38 <stickster> not sure if x3mboy is around -- he has a zsh tuning guide listed too 20:32:35 <cverna> does not seems like he is around 20:32:41 <stickster> #info --- Buildah article part 2 --- 20:33:13 <stickster> This pitch is from the mailing list -- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/magazine@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BIDKLFSB3MCIXFOAU5W552OGS25PK4NL/ 20:33:59 <cverna> For this I feel it would be nice to have a DIY type of article with a nice use case 20:34:08 <stickster> +1 from me, but I'd also advise Ashutosh to write more context, which is often lacking when he does initial draft 20:34:23 <stickster> cverna: exactly -- a use case that makes it more understandable *why* to use this process 20:34:23 <ryanlerch> yeah, the modules one was awesome in that way 20:34:46 <ryanlerch> that is, having a use case example 20:34:49 <stickster> do you guys feel this is OK for him to go ahead and write, though? 20:34:55 <cverna> yes 20:34:59 <ryanlerch> yeah +1 from me 20:36:41 <stickster> #agreed Buildah article pitch approved 20:36:46 <stickster> #action stickster email list with approval 20:36:55 <stickster> #info --- Animations in Blender --- 20:37:08 <stickster> #link https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/magazine@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PGDSDVJHYQSC7BIMCS5IXGENK5HEOMKB/ 20:37:47 <cverna> +1 for me 20:38:14 <ryanlerch> big +1 20:38:23 <ryanlerch> this is a neat one 20:38:33 <ryanlerch> i can edit / help with this 20:39:39 <cverna> yeah it is a nice topic 20:39:45 <stickster> I LOVE this idea 20:39:59 <stickster> I think this could actually be a series. 20:40:13 <stickster> #agreed Blender pitch approved 20:40:17 <stickster> #action stickster email the list 20:40:23 <stickster> #undol 20:40:24 <stickster> #undo 20:40:24 <zodbot> Removing item from minutes: ACTION by stickster at 20:40:17 : stickster email the list 20:40:31 <stickster> #action ryanlerch email the list and offer assistance 20:40:36 <stickster> ^ sound good ryanlerch? 20:40:51 <ryanlerch> +1 20:41:04 <stickster> OK, let's see where we are with articles. 20:42:22 <stickster> #proposed #agreed Fri Jun 08: Test Days (ryanlerch edit) -- Mon Jun 11: HDYF (stickster edit) -- Wed Jun 13: RasPi 3B+ (cverna edit, ryanlerch image) -- Fri Jun 15: TBA 20:42:36 <cverna> +1 for me 20:42:40 <ryanlerch> +1 20:42:59 <stickster> #action REVISED: cverna edit RasPi 3B+ article, ryanlerch do the image 20:43:15 <stickster> #topic Publishing schedule 20:43:23 <stickster> #agreed Fri Jun 08: Test Days (ryanlerch edit) -- Mon Jun 11: HDYF (stickster edit) -- Wed Jun 13: RasPi 3B+ (cverna edit, ryanlerch image) -- Fri Jun 15: TBA 20:43:33 <stickster> I bet I can come up with something for next Friday, too 20:44:37 <stickster> #topic Open floor -- all other business 20:44:56 <stickster> Do we want to cover anything else? Ideas for future articles? Ideas for how to make this meeting better? Anything? 20:45:22 <cverna> I don't have anything specific 20:45:58 <cverna> I ll think about another python article over the week end 20:46:30 <ryanlerch> yeah nothing from me! 20:46:44 <stickster> cverna++ 20:46:44 <ryanlerch> stickster: this is my most efficient meeting TBH 20:46:53 <stickster> if only they all ran so smoothly! 20:46:55 <ryanlerch> thanks for chairing every week 20:47:12 <stickster> would love to get some more peeps in here, do feel free to share with others! 20:47:43 * stickster reminds everyone, don't feel glum if we run a little dry from time to time... it's a rhythmic thing, it happens quite regularly in summer :-) 20:47:48 <cverna> yes I like the meeting format too 20:47:51 <cverna> stickster++ 20:48:57 <stickster> OK then... I'll go ahead and close if there's nothing else 20:49:04 <stickster> Thanks for being here, everyone! 20:49:07 <stickster> #endmeeting