Re: [sahana-maindev] Newsletterr

[Chamindra de S. <cha...@op...>]

+1. William I think you have our support to get this going and I
personally think it would be of great value to the Sahana project,
serving a gap between the developers and the users. Looking forward to
the first issue :-)

chamindra de silva
http://chamindra.googlepages.com



On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Gavin Treadgold <gt...@ke...> wrote:
>
> +1 from me as well.
>
> I think it is important that blogs are seen more for internal
> community communication, whilst newsletters are for the broader
> community. But they should definitely be hosted in the same
> authoritative location so that people say searching for newsletters,
> discover the blog etc ;)
>
> Cheers Gav
>
> On 2008-12-13, at 2332, Ajay Kumar wrote:
>
>> 2008/12/13 William Anderson <wil...@gm...>:
>>> Dominic and Ajay,
>>> While i appreciate the feedback I disagree with your perception of
>>> the
>>> cost-benefit ratio and the efficacy of the blogs.  Many of the people
>>> in positions of power do not regularly read blogs or subscribe to rss
>>> feeds of (underutilized) mailing lists.  Blogs and rss require an
>>> active search and foreknowledge.  A newletter is a more passive,and
>>> therefore more easily sharable, mode of passing knowledge to decision
>>> makers unaware of Sahana.
>>>
>>> I dont see the newsletter as an update for the existing community but
>>> as an additional recruitment method.
>>
>> I totally agree with you here and support this. And since Dominic was
>> talking about blogs, I suggested a way to have it all at one place as
>> well in the form of a planet, so all sahana tagged blog posts by
>> people related to sahana and its advocacy can be found at one place.
>>
>> I would be happy to contribute to the newsletter as well.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Ajay Kumar
>
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