ReactOS newsletter

[Z98]

Whatever did happen to the newsletter? The last update that I can see is from February. Did the writer get swamped with other stuff or move on or something?

[frik85]

We have been searching for (a) newsletter author(s) for several months (see mailing list).

If someone want to take over this job, please write an email to ros-dev mailing list. (don't forget to subscribe to the ML).

We search an author for our "ReactOS Weekly Newsletter".


History:

Jason Filby had established the ReactOS Weekly Newsletter (called
"ReactOS Weekly") in 1999 as a useful weekly news summary located on
www.reactos.com. In 2000 the newsletter had been discontinued. With
the website redesign in summer 2005, the newsletter came back with
Stuart "TwoTailedFox" Robbins as author.


Requirements:

Here are requirements for an author:

1. Have enough time once a week to write the newsletter text (e.g. every sunday)
2. Be good in english language
3. Understand our technlogy (svn, reactos, windows nt, win32, kernel,
drivers, apps, etc.)
4. Be in frequent contact with the ReactOS developer, and come in our
IRC channels too (because mailing list traffic may be sometimes slow)
5. HTML knowledge is not required but an advantage


Goal:

The "ReactOS Weekly Newsletter" should be weekly (as the name implies)
and sum up the ongoing mailing list discussions as well as irc
conversations.
Additionally it should contain ReactOS news, like new releases.
From time to time interviews, reviews (of apps compatibility and
reactos functions and releases) and maybe audio-podcasts, etc. would
be great too.
The layout of the newsletter issue page can be the same as the latest
one (e.g. http://www.reactos.org/xhtml/en/newsletter_11.html), similar
as WineHQ's one, or different.


Previous newsletters - links:

10/2005 - 02/2005:
http://www.reactos.org/?page=newsletters

1999 - 2000:
http://web.archive.org/web/200005221741 ... eekly.html

WineHQ'S newsletters:
http://www.winehq.com/?issue=back


Mailing List Information:
http://www.reactos.org/?page=community_mailinglists

IRC Channel Information:
http://www.reactos.org/?page=community_irc



So... if this sounds like something you would like to do, please reply
to this mailing list email explaining why you you think you would be a
good newsletter author.

A ReactOS newsletter author should be good at writing technical articles.
Wine Weekly Newsletter is popular source for news, we need something
similar too.


Topics:
SVN, Mailing List and IRC activity are the main topics of the newsletter.
Interviews, reviews of new features/versions, podcasts, etc. are
optional things.

[Z98]

Well, unfortunately I'm disqualified because of 1 and certain parts of 3. It's a shame too, cause from what I've read in the mailing lists there are certain developments that if known by more people might preempt certain questions and stuff.

Incidentally, I was in the IRC channel of both #reactos and -dev. I got an error that said I needed to be an operator in #(said channel) to do that. Except I don't know what "that" is, since all I did was log on.

[GreatLord]

Hi
in #reactos-dev u need be a devloper with op to speek or got voice to speak, (op = @ before u name in channel list, + = before u name mean voice) for we do not allown everyone speaking in #reactos-dev. But in #reactos can any one speak and chat what they like.