[OH-Publicity] 1st OH newsletter feedback and other contributions wanted

[Deb Nicholson]

I think you need permission for that page.
Deb

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Asheesh Laroia <lists at asheesh.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from Mike Linksvayer's message of Sat Jul 07 01:45:40 -0400 2012:
>> Asheesh suggested in IRC that OH could use a newsletter. Here's a
>> draft 1st issue. Preview at
>> https://openhatch.org/blog/?p=1176&preview=true&preview_id=1176&public=1&nonce=de50ef8cea
>> or plaintext below. Any form of feedback or other contribution would
>> be appreciated and welcomed. :-)
>
> Sorry this took me ages to get to!
>
> Some feedback items:
>
> * We/I should fix the blog theme so it doesn't look so weird, with the
>   footer sticking out at the top. I'll work on that.
>
> * "August 2012" at the start -- I think you mean August 2011?
>
> * It could use a photo at the top. Maybe we can use a photo of the
>   Jessica+Asheesh PyCon talk -- http://pyvideo.org/video/719/diversity-in-practice-how-the-boston-python-user/
>   38:31? I'm trying to extract that now...
>
> For the rest, it's somewhat terse, but that's your style, and you can
> totally run with that.
>
> We should make sure that we have a plan for how we distribute this.
>
> * Tag in the blog (that's ready)
>
> * Email...
>
> so for email, either we can use the "announce" mailing list that is a Mailman
> instance that we control, or we can use a service like CiviCRM that makes it
> easier to track sending, and that has a slightly better UI for adding oneself
> to the list.
>
> And we could manually send the blog post to the list, or try to automate that.
>
> Let's just do it manually, and stick with our current Mailman list for now, as
> discussed on #openhatch.
>
> As for identi.ca and Twitter, those get auto-updated when there's a new blog
> post, so that seems solid.
>
> So you fix the date, and I'll see if I can fix the theme and give you an image.
> If you can come up with a different image, that'd be excellent too.
>
> Then ship it.
>
> -- Asheesh.
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