Amarok Insider -- let's write one!

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Bart Cerneels <bart.cerneels at kde.org> wrote:
> 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


> 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

Hey Bart, I'll chat with you in IRC soon about this. What you have is
good, and I'll try to play around with it so I have some intelligent
questions for you about the new view.

I've got more ideas, and a few articles have been started, but more
input (and screenshots) are always good.

Valorie