News #26: Wanted: ReactOS Weekly Newsletter Author

2006-11-14, Klemens Friedl
Wanted: ReactOS Weekly Newsletter Author
We search an author for our ReactOS Weekly Newsletter.

Wanted: ReactOS Weekly Newsletter Author

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. In late 2004 to early 2005, Zach Tong wrote 5 Issues of the "SPLASH - The official ReactOS Newsletter". With the website redesign in summer 2005, the newsletter came back with Stuart "TwoTailedFox" Robbins as author.

Requirements

Here are requirements for an author:

Have enough time once a week to write the newsletter text (e.g. every sunday)
Be good in english language
Understand our technlogy (svn, reactos, windows nt, win32, kernel, drivers, apps, etc.)
Be in frequent contact with the ReactOS developer, and come in our IRC channels too (because mailing list traffic may be sometimes slow)
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/en/newsletter_11.html), similar as WineHQ's one, or different.
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, blog (text/audio/video), etc. are optional things.

Previous newsletters and links

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

11/2004 - 01/2005:
http://www.tong-web.com/splash/

1999 - 2000:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000522174140/reactos.com/public/weekly.html

WineHQ's technical 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 send an email to "ros-dev" developer mailing list (don't forget to subscribe), explaining why you think you would be a good newsletter author.

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