This Page is a Place for New Ideas for the GNOME Journal
LuisVilla4 had the idea that we can place all issues (current and past) on the GNOME LiveCD that he produces either in a DocBook format or PDF. He noted that we're aiming for fairly professional-ish content, so yelp would either have to function as a very high quality docbook viewer, or it would have to be pdf.
StevenGarrity: I could help out with this - I'm going to learn a bit about docbook, but the quick solution would be to keep the articles in HTML. [LuisVilla4: Or it was pointed out we could just do HTML->PDF by printing with a browser, though I think that might have to be Konq or Safari ;)]
LuisVilla4 suggested that you could have a regular 'gnome apps compared' column- like lwn's 'Grumpy Editor' series, but with a focus on GNOME apps, perhaps with evaluation of the competition as well. For example, you could compare iBookshelf, Alexandria, Bibshelf, mcatalog, and on the OS/X side (for comparison) Delicious Library. The CD Burning article in the current edition could have been done in this style as well.
JohnWilliams has two suggestions. Both are aimed at attracting more readers.
- Regular status reports from various GNOME Teams (QA, Acessability etc.)
- Allow a "talkback" feature for each article
ToonVerstraelen notes that the rss feed doesn't work with thunderbird. A blank page is shown instead of the article.
JimHodapp has a note for himself: write an Editor's letter about the GNOME 10th anniversary. For that matter too, we should publish a big issue celebrating the 10th anniversary and do a big look back at where GNOME has come from and where it is heading. (Thanks to Sri for the idea!)