Amarok Insider -- let's write one!

Bart Cerneels bart.cerneels at kde.org
Tue Feb 23 09:37:12 CET 2010


On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 08:50, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Valorie Zimmerman
> <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The holidays killed my forward momentum on the Handbook, but in the
>> meantime, how about writing and publishing a new Amarok Insider? I
>> have the beginnings of some ideas at
>> https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATnjdQG6VS_4ZGZ0cnE2dHdfMzJkeGY1Y3Bkdw&hl=en
>>
>> I'm CCing the developers because I would like your ideas about any
>> articles or subjects we should include. Also, I think it would be fun
>> to have a developer interview each issue. I can't promise an issue a
>> month; once a quarter seems more realistic. That would be about every
>> other release.
>>
>> If you are in that doc editing and see a mistake in my writing, please
>> feel free to correct, clarify, or add. Ping me if you have any
>> difficulties accessing the doc.
>>
>> It would be nice to get this out soon after 2.3 release.
>
> As I had discussed with Valorie, I think it could be even better to
> release the new "Amarok Insider" newsletter shortly before our Amarok
> 2.3 release, as this could be nice promotion, and it could help our
> users understand the new release better (there are many changes). And
> I think that might even be doable, as we made a lot of progress with
> the document. It's already about 70% finished or so :)
>
> What's missing:
>
> Some really nice screenshots of the latest Amarok (2.3-Beta, or from
> Git). Here our users could help us a lot. Any takes for creating some
> pretty screenshots? :)
>
> --
> Mark Kretschmann
> Amarok Developer, Software Engineer at Collabora Ltd
> Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe
> http://amarok.kde.org - http://www.fsfe.org - http://collabora.co.uk
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Perhaps you also want some explanation of recent podcast and saved
playlists work, especially the multi-provider view in the browsers.
I'll contribute this to the google doc?

Bart


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