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[Radina Matic <radina.matic@xxxxxxxxx>]

Since Izidor found new bugs in that feature about which we planned to blog
this week, and I managed to submit my application for GOPW already (yeah!),
I wrote another post about multitasking inspired by a couple of articles on
HBR and NYT. Check the Google doc and let me know what you think...

Cheers,
Radina


On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 06:41, Radina Matic <radina.matic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I agree that once a week for starters should be enough. Ricardo, you
> already wrote the first article and, if everybody agrees, it can be
> published as this week's post. In the mean time we will rewrite Izidor's
> description of the fixed icon path bug and we'll have ready the post for
> the next week.
>
> As Bertrand suggested, we should present ourselves, but I vote to create
> the "Meet the Team" blog post series to be published one at the time, where
> the most active members among developers and contributors can have a
> paragraph or two (or more, if anybody has time or inclination ;) to present
> him/herself... :) This can be added as the "Meet the Team" blog category.
>
> I like the idea of putting various types of content on the blog, and will
> definitely start searching for it, but it will have to wait for *after
> the 6th of April* when my application for the GNOME Outreach Program for
> Women is due. I want to advance as much as possible with the GTG User
> Documentation in Mallard (afterwards I can blog about it ;) to have a fair
> chance of getting the internship. That way you will have to put up with me
> and my comments at least until September... :P
>
> Ricardo, by all means start making videos and tutorials, it will be great
> addition for the blog and we can even integrate them into the User
> Documentation in the making!
>
> Cheers,
> Radina
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 21:25, Bertrand Rousseau <
> bertrand.rousseau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I like Izidor's idea of varying the content. Updates, screencasts,
>> news about GTG people, those are interesting news...
>>
>> Of course, Ricardo, Radina, you're in the driver's seat, so do as you
>> please, do what *motivates* you. Don't hesitate to ask us to write
>> down some posts sometimes! (We're not only here to be lazy/whiny
>> bastards ;-) )
>>
>> Regarding the periodicity, twice a week is maybe a bit ambitious for
>> just GTG. For me, I would already be happy with oncea week... I'd say
>> that the regularity is the most important.
>>
>> Oh, and take the time to introduce yourself, you certainly earned it!
>>
>> Thanks again for all the work,
>>
>> Bertrand
>>
>> 2012/3/26 Ricardo Graça <ricardo@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> > Sounds good to me! Those are a lot of tasks though. We'll have to
>> organize
>> > ourselves very well to pull it off. I can start recording videos of the
>> > features, but finding interesting stuff to blog about regularly might
>> be too
>> > much for me. Radina?
>> >
>> > No dia 26 de Mar de 2012 15:27, "Izidor Matušov" <
>> izidor.matusov@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > escreveu:
>> >
>> >> I've added few notes to both documents (blogpost and Radina's
>> >> documentation outline). I like them!
>> >>
>> >> On Saturday night I had several ideas (it was a long travel by bus):
>> >>  * regularly post on the blog, at least once or twice a week
>> >>
>> >>  * besides blogging about GTG development and its features, it might
>> be a
>> >> good idea to post other interesting content as well. For example, the
>> author
>> >> of Switf To-DO list has a blog where he posts about personal
>> development -
>> >> content that go beyond his To-DO list. You would need to find out who
>> you
>> >> want to talk to and what could be interesting for her. We don't have to
>> >> create our own content (but it would be great), posting links and
>> summaries
>> >> to noteworthy articles / blogpost / youtube videos once a week or once
>> a two
>> >> weeks could be enough.
>> >>
>> >>  * You could create many video tutorials of new features. Some people
>> >> don't want to upgrade to development version (it could have bugs) but
>> they
>> >> would like to see how that feature looks like. You could inspire by
>> >> OMGUbuntu:
>> >>
>> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/03/how-to-minimize-apps-to-the-unity-launcher-in-ubuntu-12-04/
>> >>
>> >>  * You could write a blog post about urgency color plugin.
>> >>
>> >> Those are just ideas, feel free to dismissed them :-)
>> >>
>> >> Izidor
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bertrand Rousseau
>>
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