21:00:04 #startmeeting Magazine editorial board 21:00:04 Meeting started Thu Jul 27 21:00:04 2017 UTC. The chair is stickster. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 21:00:04 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 21:00:04 The meeting name has been set to 'magazine_editorial_board' 21:00:06 #meetingname magazine 21:00:06 The meeting name has been set to 'magazine' 21:00:09 #topic Roll call 21:00:11 .hello pfrields 21:00:12 stickster: pfrields 'Paul W. Frields' 21:00:14 .hello ryanlerch 21:00:15 ryanlerch: ryanlerch 'Ryan Lerch' 21:00:21 morning stickster! 21:00:38 .hello linkdupont 21:00:39 sub_pop: linkdupont 'Link Dupont' 21:00:44 o/ ryanlerch, top o' the morning 21:00:59 stickster: :D 21:01:08 morning sub_pop! 21:01:20 afternoon ryanlerch 21:01:31 .hello sadin 21:01:33 sadin: sadin 'Zachary Snyder' 21:01:49 can anyone say best month ever on the magazine? 21:01:53 :D 21:02:02 seriously! 21:02:11 * stickster waits one more minute in case jwf is around 21:02:44 haha. i'm curious to see how the last few days of the month are going 21:03:05 ok, let's hit it 21:03:05 #topic Last week's stats 21:03:41 #info last week: over 78K pageviews, which is VERY high for an average week, probably trail-off traffic from GA 21:04:04 #info July 2017: A NEW RECORD! over 331K pageviews thus far 21:04:50 nice 21:04:57 this week so far we are still averaging 10.5K a aday too 21:05:03 which is really good 21:05:06 wow 21:05:10 impressive! 21:05:37 \o/ 21:06:05 .fas x3mboy 21:06:06 So... maybe we can eke out 350K by Monday, but I'm not gonna hold my breath on that one :-) 21:06:06 x3mboy: x3mboy 'Eduard Lucena' 21:06:20 #chair ryanlerch sadin sub_pop x3mboy 21:06:20 Current chairs: ryanlerch sadin stickster sub_pop x3mboy 21:06:44 Let's plunge into posts so we can have some time to discuss a few ideas that popped up 21:06:51 #topic Pending review 21:07:08 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=pending&post_type=post 21:07:23 I put x3mboy post on classroom in here. I have time to edit that after meeting. 21:07:33 It really needs to go out tonight to have any value since the classroom session is tomorrow 21:08:51 x3mboy: I completely understand you didn't have info you needed for this to be ready earlier... no problem. If you plan on having some of these in the Magazine later on, it would be great if you could have them ready earlier, so there's more advance notice for the public 21:09:14 this is a +1from me 21:09:24 +1 from me too, no brainer! 21:09:52 At the same time... we could probably come up with a format that would make it easier to just "plug in" details 21:10:09 just a note, it might be nice to just introduce themas classes, rather than the fact that they used to happen, and now are again 21:10:10 #info --- Classroom announcement --- 21:10:30 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=18252&preview=1&_ppp=2cc7cfffe0 21:10:31 just get to the point that there are classes on right at the top 21:10:41 good point Ryan, I can fix that in the editing room :-) 21:10:52 #action stickster edit article to get it ready for ASAP publication 21:11:14 ryanlerch: I found a great photo under CC-BY: 21:11:14 https://www.flickr.com/photos/puliarfanita/3486631696/in/photolist-6j6U8A-pMjxK7-9hzx4s-9ofefG-7M4fcM-haddK-8Ndp7M-a8VnPy-n2MMhJ-xjuAp-6jCAPg-kuR1VV-aapzWB-pK3Xqy-cYThBL-7CJQPW-kuT5vA-tujPg-bpyR6H-atB2VY-UNEnos-R9bryD-ebvmCZ-zEGvwd-6oX3Tt-GBUx7-onSVCA-qw2Qjt-dzMAwa-4LtdsY-SqY6oc-qG2PwL-aJhsaX-2iVE5E-9LPcYR-f8247P-rYGoGh-hC5uK7-8AZHZp-T4WXXs-4AqJCk-qrSEBX-nGeY72-kuKv4R-dZsYRg-4XCRTS-4XTWSe-tujJX-5 21:11:20 7T9NY-ceGmW5 21:11:23 oh lord, sorry 21:11:35 http://bit.ly/2vNntcZ 21:11:59 stickster: +1 for that photo! 21:12:04 Do you guys think this photo of the school house in San Simeon is universal enough? 21:12:24 do you want me to make the image up? 21:12:56 yea looks pretty schoolhouse-y to me 21:13:07 ryanlerch: sure, if you like! one thing to consider -- either we could reuse the image, or relabel it as needed... maybe have this either as a motif/bg, or just use the same image repeatedly 21:13:24 stickster: i'm thining reuse here 21:13:31 yeah... not sure how many more awesome schoolhouse photos we'd find 21:13:51 I love the negative space in this one 21:14:08 Sorry, I'm inmy job 21:14:14 no worries x3mboy 21:14:18 we'll get this out tonight :-) 21:14:26 Thanks! 21:14:31 #action ryanlerch do featured image for classroom article 21:14:47 #topic Drafts 21:14:49 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=post 21:15:12 #info --- LaTeX/Octave --- 21:15:25 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=18184&preview=1&_ppp=3c836041e0 21:15:39 This seems to be a draft just started, was it already approved? 21:16:53 ryanlerch: ^ any memory here? I don't see anything on list 21:18:15 hm, did I get knocked off net again? 21:18:31 stickster: i don't thing we approved anything here 21:18:40 ryanlerch: what say you? 21:18:48 I'm +1 on the concept, seems pretty cool to me 21:19:00 we haven't had a good LaTeX article... uh, ever? 21:19:00 I think is a great idea if we remove the reference to MATLAB 21:19:26 stickster: yeah +1 on concept from me too 21:19:38 x3mboy: we don't need to remove that reference IMHO, it's there to show that Octave is a free comparable alternative 21:19:47 the article is about Octave and not MATLAB, so that seems OK to me 21:20:09 Ok 21:20:13 So, no problem then 21:20:42 #agreed LaTeX/Octave article may have missed being pitched, but is +1 for draft, OK to proceed 21:20:53 #action stickster email yulytas to ask if she's still going to work on this 21:21:15 #info --- Enhancing photos --- 21:21:16 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=18260&preview=1&_ppp=7197657a79 21:21:58 +1 for this one! 21:22:13 Oh nice 21:22:17 I love it! 21:22:20 ! 21:22:28 we suggested this one as an alternate to a gimp pitch a while ago 21:22:29 nice job sub_pop 21:22:34 This came about from an old pitch we received. I was tasked to contact the author. He never got back. So I wrote something using Photos instead of the proposed article 21:22:38 sub_pop++ 21:22:41 I can ping yulitas to proceed with the latex article, she is from latam 21:22:50 x3mboy: well sure! thank you 21:23:12 #action x3mboy take over action from stickster to email yulytas 21:23:24 Really well done 21:23:27 if it matters, the photos are all mine. so there should be no rights concerns there. 21:23:49 sub_pop: it does, and that's perfect then, because your submission will set the licensing as OK by default 21:24:02 cool 21:24:11 ryanlerch: A couple minor touches on text and this will be ready to go, too, do you want to team up like Voltron on this one too? 21:24:38 stickster: sure! 21:24:39 yea, pleeeeease grammar check it. i wrote it at 11pm again D: 21:25:27 No worries sub_pop, we got your back :-) 21:25:41 #action stickster edit article for publication tonight as well 21:25:45 haha i figured people less sleep-deprived can provide extra eyes 21:25:47 thanks for an awesome post sub_pop! 21:25:48 #undo 21:25:48 Removing item from minutes: ACTION by stickster at 21:25:41 : stickster edit article for publication tonight as well 21:25:56 #action stickster edit GNOME Photos article for publication tonight as well 21:26:03 #action ryanlerch do featured image for GNOME Photos article 21:26:20 That's it for drafts, let's move right along to posts 21:26:26 er pitches 21:26:28 ryanlerch: if you want one of the photos from the article, i can send you the full rez version 21:26:28 #topic Pitches 21:26:37 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=pitch&post_type=post&ids=17801 21:26:58 (for the feature image) 21:27:07 ooh, nice idea 21:27:21 I'll bet ryanlerch could do something spiffy with that 21:27:26 sub_pop: ooh, yes please! 21:27:41 ok. i'll send them tonight when i get home 21:27:53 Friday morning is always "art time" w/ ryanlerch ... we load him up with image requests :-D 21:27:58 lol 21:28:09 Please don't comment on my old pitch, I have that article abandoned (jed editor). I promise that I will finish it in august, with the 2 folowings (emacs and vim) 21:28:10 Art Time with Ryan Lerch! Now streaming on twitch.tv 21:28:14 stickster: we aiing for the photos one to be 0800UTC today? 21:28:27 ryanlerch: yes, if you think we could 21:28:33 stickster: for sure! 21:28:38 \o/ 21:28:41 but classroom one ASAP 21:28:44 agreed 21:28:50 OK, to pitches then! 21:29:12 #info --- EOL F24 --- 21:29:15 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=18208&preview=1&_ppp=c395232887 21:29:28 (note that's just an empty shell right now, but we've done many of these and the article almost writes itself) 21:29:37 +1, no brainer, gotta have it! 21:29:44 LOL 21:29:45 +1 21:29:50 stickster: do you know the actual date? 21:29:54 lol +1 21:30:00 we should be getting close 21:30:43 mattdm: ^ 21:30:49 or nirik ^ 21:31:42 there was an item recently about setting it to four weeks vs. "one month" which isn't an exact measure 21:31:55 but I think that would have been for F25+ EOL 21:32:20 ryanlerch: Found it -- 2017-Aug-08 21:32:24 that's official 21:32:42 mattdm: nirik: never mind, sorry 21:32:57 * stickster needs to open his !$%* eyes and rtfm 21:33:21 #agreed F24 EOL article is good to go, actual EOL date is 2017-08-08 21:33:23 stickster: so we could probably do this one this friday 21:33:37 ryanlerch: oh yeah, and hold the Photos until Monday 21:33:54 stickster: sorry, i meant in a week 21:34:01 oh, gotcha 21:34:11 yeah, that's fine too -- it's pretty open ended 21:34:38 i can be in charge of this one 21:34:46 * stickster saves as draft and tosses ball to ryanlerch 21:35:07 since it is a annoucnemnt, will probably endup switching the author to mattdm 21:35:17 +1 21:35:20 +1 21:35:50 #action ryanlerch finish F24 EOL article and schedule under mattdm byline 21:35:56 #info --- Ring --- 21:36:03 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=18239&preview=1&_ppp=042ca1625b 21:36:51 Oooo 21:36:54 OMG this looks cool! I am *so* +1 on this! 21:36:54 I like it 21:36:56 hmmmm 21:37:02 +1 to ring 21:37:05 what is ring? 21:37:12 GNU skype alternative 21:37:16 essentially 21:37:27 Multiplatform 21:37:29 yeah, communications platform for audio/video/sharing/messaging 21:38:02 Skype turned non-adware turned privacy and personal rights oriented 21:38:11 oh ok 21:38:32 have yet to use it, but Ive heard good things 21:38:52 Holy crap, they have F26 packages too 21:38:59 And a real yum repo! 21:39:38 with GPG signing!!! 21:40:59 OK, now that everyone is probably playing with it :-D 21:41:02 i think this oneis a go then! 21:41:16 #agreed Ring article approved to draft 21:41:33 #action stickster email author to approve and encourage 21:43:04 #info --- Twitter 89k --- 21:43:07 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=18244&preview=1&_ppp=be07f5afdb 21:43:27 -1 21:43:32 hmmmm 21:43:44 So there was some discussion about this on list. I wanted some tweaks as indicated there (refocus article from our follower #s to "look where else you can find us") 21:44:05 stickster: took the words straight out of my mouth 21:44:16 bexelbie actually suggested those tweaks ^ and I'm +1 on this as long as that happens 21:44:49 My recollection is we turned down a similar post a while back for similar reasons 21:45:05 stickster: we did 21:45:16 but I love the idea of letting people know they can find us on other social media platforms 21:45:36 * x3mboy <3 telegram 21:45:58 Like, do we really want to advertise we only have 1K followers on Instagram? 21:46:01 I think not 21:46:30 I dont think we should advertise 21:46:30 I mean crap, I have over 300 and I'm not even trying 21:46:32 stickster: yeah, i think just avoiding numbers is good 21:46:41 but a post lumping evrything together would be cool 21:46:57 otherwise it will age really quickly too 21:47:03 yeah, a list like "Follow us on Twitter, here's our Facebook group, etc." is timeless 21:47:13 or at least more so 21:47:21 stickster: ;) 21:47:34 like linking to our myspace? 21:47:37 lol 21:47:43 forget that, The Well! 21:47:54 mastadon :P 21:48:00 mugshot 21:48:06 haha 21:48:38 OK, so: #proposed #agreed +1 to social media article as long as we remove numbers and refocus on showing people where to find us on other SM platforms 21:48:51 ^ sound OK? +/-1 21:49:20 +1 21:49:51 +1 21:49:56 #agreed +1 to social media article as long as we remove numbers and refocus on showing people where to find us on other SM platforms 21:50:27 #inf --- contributing CI tests --- 21:50:29 argh 21:50:45 #info --- contributing CI tests --- 21:50:48 #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=18271&preview=1&_ppp=d4dba1eebc 21:51:12 this is my pitch, so I recuse myself :-) the point is, mattdm requested a post like this and I was down to write it, to contribute to the CI effort 21:52:08 ryanlerch: thoughts? 21:52:08 it's on the borderline for me, but +1 21:52:24 +1 21:52:31 +1 especially considering the pkgdb -> pagure.io change for packagers 21:52:53 ryanlerch: I was too. What tipped me over was that the point of having dist-git under Pagure is that a non-contributor can submit a pull request to fix a package, or add a test -- so the public can be involved 21:53:12 stickster: yeah! woo that sounds awesome 21:53:30 OK, so it sounds like this is +1 to go? 21:53:35 +1 21:54:02 +1 from me 21:54:07 #agreed Contributing CI tests article OK to go 21:54:23 * stickster doesn't action himself to tell himself he's approved :-D 21:54:29 haha 21:54:43 OK, that's all I wanted to cover in pitches. sadin, I think you had an idea you were going to run with from the list, correct? 21:54:52 #action All other business - open floor 21:54:55 oh darn 21:54:56 #undo 21:54:56 Removing item from minutes: ACTION by stickster at 21:54:52 : All other business - open floor 21:55:00 #topic All other business - open floor 21:55:25 mattdm: asked about doing an article on vultr the vps host 21:55:39 ! 21:55:39 and I said I could pick that one up since Ive been using them for quite some time 21:55:52 x3mboy: go for it, we're not so formal in here ;-) 21:55:52 I have 2 things 21:55:52 no formal pitch on it 21:56:12 sadin: YES! I love this idea, they just added updated Fedora and it's a great time to get that out there. Can you create it this weekend, you think? 21:56:33 stickster aboslutely I was going to start on a draft tonight after the meeting! 21:56:34 ryanlerch: ^ before you head out are you +1 for sadin pitch? 21:56:41 sadin++ 21:56:41 stickster: Karma for sadin changed to 1 (for the f26 release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 21:56:45 COOKIE PARTY!!! 21:56:49 The first one is that I have an article in the CommBlog that can be good in the Magazine too, about the Wordpress client: The Cons: It's not installable from any repo or anything, it's a downloadable binary 21:56:52 I can spin up some images and get testing 21:56:53 :) 21:56:54 +1 21:56:55 But it's open source 21:56:57 WOO cookies 21:57:08 So, if you can check this I can go on Magazine too 21:57:24 sadin++ 21:57:24 ryanlerch: Karma for sadin changed to 2 (for the f26 release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 21:58:07 The other thing is, in behalf of the Join SIG tea, I want to know if you will be willing to publish a brieaf weekly article with the Classroom session each week (it's discussed in the ML) 21:58:28 s/tea/team/g 21:58:31 #agreed sadin go forth and write Vultr article 21:58:58 awesome :) 21:59:19 x3mboy: I'm a weak -1 on the WP client article, only because (1) the reason to use it in CommBlog right now is something's broken, otherwise it's not needed; (2) there are some broken things about it when using in Fedora like Media Library, which makes it less suitable for general users 22:00:09 x3mboy: as for Classroom articles, I'm definitely +1 for a short announcement post for upcoming classes. We can reuse the image from this week, and if you could get it to us say three days ahead that would be great. 22:00:16 I had another idea I propsed a while ago personally to jwf 22:00:18 stickster, yeah, you're right 22:00:49 Well, next session in my one :D about the Fedora Magazine and how to get started :D 22:00:49 +1 to small posts about upcoming fedora classroom sessions 22:00:50 getting Fedora up and running on apple hardware 22:01:04 sadin: that's one I tried to write and sadly failed, so I'd be +1 on it 22:01:13 broadcom-wl is a pian 22:01:15 pain* 22:01:17 #agreed x3mboy approved for upcoming Classroom articles 22:01:21 but ive done it enough to know 22:01:31 Well guys, I have to run 22:01:34 thanks x3mboy 22:01:37 later x3mboy ! 22:01:38 Sorry for the runaway 22:01:44 stickster++ 22:01:44 x3mboy: Karma for pfrields changed to 10 (for the f26 release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 22:01:46 nope, we need to close out anyway 22:01:49 ryanlerch++ 22:01:51 x3mboy: Karma for ryanlerch changed to 3 (for the f26 release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 22:01:51 sadin++ 22:01:53 no problem at all 22:01:54 x3mboy: Karma for sadin changed to 3 (for the f26 release cycle): https://badges.fedoraproject.org/tags/cookie/any 22:02:03 ryanlerch: I'll meet up with you later, everyone else -- thanks for coming! 22:02:09 #endmeeting