[Marketing] Priorities - News

[Quim Gil]

About http://wiki.qt-project.org/Marketing

On 12/07/2011 10:48 AM, ext Tomasz Siekierda wrote:
 > As for 7. (news), I guess the official blogs on Nokia's site are OK
 > for now, but probably a separate system should be established on
 > qt-project.org, so that approvers and maintainers from outside of
 > Nokia can blog about some important developments. Also, I would
 > suggest the Labs blogs move there. It would be very good if the blogs
 > would reside in one place only - having to switch between Nokia and
 > qt-project would be confusing.

The future of those Qt blogs hosted under *.nokia.com is being discussed 
at Nokia right now and a decision is expected "soon" (don't quote me on 
this, though)

Qt Labs blogs are granted to be moved, I guess it's more or less a 
matter of ToDo priorities. The Qt Blog itself is still under discussion 
because it is part of qt.nokia.com and the approach there has been a lot 
more related to Nokia's business than the purely technical labs blogs. 
It's no rocket science but you need to be more careful with the cutter.

In any case we need to think of the right way to channel of that 
information. This is not only about who can write posts but about who 
decides what is aggregated or promoted, and how. Nowadays we have blogs 
hosted anywhere, company announcements, social media and what not. As 
you say it can't be anymore a matter of Nokia employees alone deciding.

 > Another idea, maybe a bit more abstract, is to ask maintainers/ active
 > commiters and approvers to write occasionally on what is going on in
 > their part of the project. Qt is huge, and keeping up-to-date even in
 > a single module is difficult.

This idea is not abstract at all! Followers of a certain component 
should be able to follow the relevant activity without having to swim in 
code reviews and bug reports. Part of this problem will be solved with 
the arrival of more specialized mailing lists. Still, for good project 
inter-communication a higher level of news / announcements is welcome.

Could be solved with specialized blogs, or good use of tags in 
aggregated blogs.

... and all this would lead to the discussion about the 
http://qt-project.org homepage and how to keep it up to date with the 
coolest info - automatically. And then someone will raise the point of 
being able to customize your own homepage based on your preferences.

-- 
Quim