[GRASSweb-list][RFC] GRASS monthly news

Markus Neteler neteler at itc.it
Thu Oct 23 05:45:11 EDT 2003


Ciao Gonzalo,

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:34:35PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Hi Gonzalo,
> 
> in my eyes a periodical news would be a great feature for GRASS!
> If you manage to publish it once a month this is perfect,
> even a newsletter every two month would be a perfect start.

yes - it is a great idea!! And probably on the endless list
of things to do for some developers who never manage to do
it. So, if you would start, probably some more people will
join your team.
 
> The best examples for project newsletters I sometimes read
> are the one from Abiword and Debian Weekly news.
> If we manage to publish something regular we probably get featured
> on LWN soon.

Please also have a look at "Rnews" from the R statistical project.
They do a good job, the "Rnews" is well accepted.
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/

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Best

 Markus




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