[Marketing] Priorities - News

[alexandra.leisse at nokia.com]

On 8.12.2011 6:05 PM, "ext Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
wrote:

>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.

Precisely. :)

>>  > 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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