[Marketing] Priorities - News

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 7 de December de 2011 16.18.06, Quim Gil wrote:
> 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.

The idea when I was still at Nokia was that the Labs blogs would remain as it 
is -- it's a blog from Nokia developers working on Qt, the trolls. If Nokia 
wishes to maintain its own official blog about Qt, they're welcome to do so.

The Qt project needs a blog of its own for news updates, such as creation of 
important mailing lists, releases coming up, etc. I think it's a matter for 
the Marketing team (this mailing list) to decide who and when can do that.

It also needs a blog aggregator, so other people can make sure the news are 
published. I don't think the Qt project needs to provide a blog publishing 
system for everyone, as you can get your own at wordpress.com or blogspot.com, 
then simply aggregate into Qt Project blogs.

>  > 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.

I've been meaning to write a "this month in QtCore" blog, as I am the 
maintainer for that area. I just haven't got around to doing so.

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