#fedora-meeting: Fedora Magazine editorial board meeting (2016-05-05)

Meeting started by jflory7 at 20:55:49 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. Roll Call (jflory7, 20:56:09)
    1. stickster is unable to make it to tonight's meeting (jflory7, 20:57:45)

  2. Week in review (jflory7, 21:04:18)
    1. Total views for last month: 157,960 (jflory7, 21:04:35)
    2. Total views for this month (so far): 20,752 (jflory7, 21:04:47)
    3. Total views last week: 43,797 (best week for all of April) (jflory7, 21:05:18)
    4. Total views this week (so far): 16,724 (jflory7, 21:05:35)

  3. Scheduled (jflory7, 21:07:19)
    1. === "Organising your finances with HomeBank" === (jflory7, 21:07:34)
    2. https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=12689&preview=1&_ppp=181c815f89 (jflory7, 21:07:39)
    3. Scheduled for 2016-05-05, 8:00 UTC (jflory7, 21:07:46)

  4. Pending review (jflory7, 21:07:54)
    1. === "Fedora teaches future makers in school" === (jflory7, 21:08:32)
    2. https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=12806&preview=1&_ppp=3c6f87c61c (jflory7, 21:08:37)
    3. ACTION: jflory7 Choose one of jdieter's pictures as the featured image for the Fedora + school article (jflory7, 21:11:42)
    4. ACTION: jflory7 Take another look at intro and try to soften it a bit with more introductory material (jflory7, 21:11:59)
    5. === "Retiring 32-bit Fedora Cloud Images" === (jflory7, 21:12:16)
    6. https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=12606&preview=1&_ppp=c90bb506f4 (jflory7, 21:12:22)
    7. Request for more info sent to mailing list earlier this week; no response heard back yet. We'll keep this one pending until we get a definite greenlight from the Cloud SIG on pushing this one out (jflory7, 21:14:31)

  5. Drafts (jflory7, 21:14:55)
    1. Drafts in progress, but not finished / started: "What's new in Fedora 24 Workstation", "Single sign-on improvements in Fedora 24" (recently approved from pitch), "Call for Contributors: Fedora Magazine Authors", "What do you look forward to in Fedora 24?", "COPR: the road ahead"' (jflory7, 21:18:24)
    2. === "Getting started with Fedora Jam" === (jflory7, 21:18:55)
    3. https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=12800&preview=1&_ppp=d3b511a9b5 (jflory7, 21:19:11)
    4. Article is almost ready to go, few ideas: (jflory7, 21:21:20)
    5. IDEA: Little more of an introduction to what the Fedora Jam remix is (jflory7, 21:21:30)
    6. IDEA: Some kind of intro paragraph to some of the steps (e.g. "What is a jackuser group?" "What will that let me do?" etc.) (jflory7, 21:22:09)
    7. IDEA: Screenshots of some of this cool software would be awesome! (jflory7, 21:22:19)
    8. ACTION: jflory7 Give ParadoxGuitarist feedback on Fedora Jam spin article via mailing list (jflory7, 21:23:55)
    9. === "Cantarell font improvements" === (jflory7, 21:24:05)
    10. https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=12482&preview=1&_ppp=b8ec6f9027 (jflory7, 21:24:09)
    11. Sylvia (lailah / Kohane) is trying to get in contact with Cantarell maintainers and get more information about the changes to the font. This is still in progress, will check in next week! (jflory7, 21:26:06)
    12. === "John Dulaney: How do you Fedora?" === (jflory7, 21:26:19)
    13. https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=12742&preview=1&_ppp=febfcdda33 (jflory7, 21:26:25)
    14. ACTION: cprofitt Check in with the Marketing mailing list / jflory7 about John Dulaney HDYF status (jflory7, 21:29:25)
    15. Also, cprofitt is rocking the HDYF series, keep up the awesome work! (jflory7, 21:29:42)

  6. Pitches (jflory7, 21:30:37)
    1. === "Fedora is on diaspora*!" === (jflory7, 21:31:15)
    2. https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=12844&preview_id=12844 (jflory7, 21:31:21)
    3. AGREED: This would be awesome for the Magazine! jbishop has full permission to begin working on a full draft of this article. (jflory7, 21:33:41)
    4. === "Linux, OVS and Libvirt Bridges" === (jflory7, 21:34:03)
    5. https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=12840&preview_id=12840 (jflory7, 21:34:09)
    6. AGREED: Article proposal looks good and we'd like to see more about this topic on the Magazine! Ashutosh is clear to begin making this a full draft. (jflory7, 21:37:25)
    7. IDEA: An introduction to what the purpose of doing this / "why" would help expand the article further! (jflory7, 21:37:50)
    8. === "New ToDo Features in Gnome 3.20" === (jflory7, 21:38:32)
    9. https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=12796&preview_id=12796 (jflory7, 21:38:37)
    10. AGREED: Another awesome idea by ridgemat - full steam ahead on drafting this one for the Magazine! (jflory7, 21:41:05)

  7. Open Floor (jflory7, 21:42:43)
    1. jflory7 will not be as around for the next two weeks - starting Saturday to May 23rd, he will not be as around as normal for writing / editing / publishing on the Magazine (jflory7, 21:44:44)


Meeting ended at 21:46:25 UTC (full logs).

Action items

  1. jflory7 Choose one of jdieter's pictures as the featured image for the Fedora + school article
  2. jflory7 Take another look at intro and try to soften it a bit with more introductory material
  3. jflory7 Give ParadoxGuitarist feedback on Fedora Jam spin article via mailing list
  4. cprofitt Check in with the Marketing mailing list / jflory7 about John Dulaney HDYF status


Action items, by person

  1. cprofitt
    1. cprofitt Check in with the Marketing mailing list / jflory7 about John Dulaney HDYF status
  2. jflory7
    1. jflory7 Choose one of jdieter's pictures as the featured image for the Fedora + school article
    2. jflory7 Take another look at intro and try to soften it a bit with more introductory material
    3. jflory7 Give ParadoxGuitarist feedback on Fedora Jam spin article via mailing list
    4. cprofitt Check in with the Marketing mailing list / jflory7 about John Dulaney HDYF status


People present (lines said)

  1. jflory7 (149)
  2. ridgemat (39)
  3. linuxmodder (10)
  4. zodbot (10)
  5. jbishop (3)
  6. cprofitt (0)


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