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XO Newsletter Magazine

Weekly updates (by end of sunday?)

Sections

  • Media/Press updates
  • Summarize of every active areas. (of wiki, community news, projects, forum, chat, etc)
  • Mailing lists / announcements
  • Country/trial school
  • Personal focus: interview, background
  • Newly formed or active projects
  • Education/research projects

NOTES

TOPIC AREA:

  • Need better outreach to community and others

Target readers, news/items/notes

  • Hardware
  • Software
  • Educators
  • User documentation (need more flushing out)

Methods (different areas/days for frequency/regular updates)

  • Wiki
  • XO'Zine (editors speak up)
  • RSS

Focus/Acknowledgment:

  • Projects underway
  • People volunteers.
  • Interesting stories, personal highlights.
  • Interest group overview.
  • Summary of blog posts, irc, or wiki to community-blog?

Welcoming committee, new user greeting

  • new volunteer
  • Devel
  • project creation
  • xo user groups

Software/Implementation (Multi-user environment)

  • WordPress (mult-user, mu.wordpress.com)
  • Droople (mburns experience)
  • Clone
  • Blog/Blogger
  • Forum/phpForum/phpBB
  • another wiki ?
  • Creative Commons (CC) license ?

Documentation on redirection ideas

  • Ask question, redirection to proper channel
  • Goto list for redirection
  • U

XO'zine

(Phil, Seth/SJ (Adam, others in background), IainD, mburns, etc)

Need better outreach to community and others

Target readers, news/items/notes

  • Hardware
  • Software
  • Educators
  • User documentation (need more flushing out)

Methods (different areas/days for frequency/regular updates)

  • Wiki
  • XO'Zine (editors speak up)
  • RSS

Weekly magazines (by end of sunday?) (Editor: Seth Interview/profiles: Seth Copy-editor/Proof reader: Seth Media/Press: Seth Wiki Summarizor: IainD, Software/developer: PhilB, Translation: Education/research: Mailing List/annoucements: Country/Trials: India deployment )

  • Media updates
  • Summarize of every active areas. (of wiki, community news, projects, forum, chat, etc)
  • Wiki
  • Mailing lists / announcements
  • Country/trial school
  • personal
  • Content projects
  • Education/research projects

Wiki names: xavi, nlee sfm

interview:

 irc users - Ian Dydise, neiske, sfm, Mel Chua (?), Molly Fisher
 kids - 


References

  • Phone conference call 2008 01 13
    • Participants - Phil, Seth/SJ (Adam, others in background), IainD, mburns, etc