Amarok Insider -- let's write one!

[Eelko Berkenpies]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org>wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:50 AM, 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? :)
>
> So, noone wants to help us?)
>
> The "Insider" is starting to become complete, but we really need some
> pretty screenshots, and maybe also screencasts. Community, let's get
> this thing finished :)
>

I'm an active GIT user. I'd be happy to create some screenshots, I'm a bit
short on time though. I'll see if I can come up with something decent ASAP.

With kind regards,

Eelko Berkenpies
(Kaboon @ freenode.net)
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