XSF Communications Team - 2018-12-18

Hey guys, GeOrg asked me to translate the newsletters to german. Sounds like a realistic way getting involved ;-)

erkanfiles: great idea!

Where to submit the results? Or should I start with upcoming newsletters? How to get the drafts before releasing?

I think jc is often composing the newsletter, so he might help.

jc:

erkanfiles, what we are doing with the current french translations is, linking the translations to somewhere where they are hosted. You can check it here: https://xmpp.org/newsletter.html

erkanfiles, arnaudj is the one that is translating it to French

erkanfiles: submissions are made here: https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/News_and_Articles_for_the_next_XMPP_Newsletter#Submissions

Looks a bit sparse ATM

I look there, then I also look at my RSS reader and in Twitter/Mastodon

erkanfiles: I always start writing at the last minute... it would be nice to have drafts for you earlier, but that makes it even more work for me.

We don't have a place to host translations currently

I would however not stop anyone else from starting an initial draft eariler

There's no rule that says only I can write the newsletter.

SouL: has also done it before

Probably translations could be hosted on xmpp.org as well, but that would require changes to the website

I wanted to start this month writing the newsletter during the month. I think is not fair if you are always writing it, jc :) Unfortunately this month has been crazy for me, I'm not in Copenhagen until 16 of January and it is hard to find time

> this month has been crazy for me... it is hard to find time Which is why I always write it at the last minute

How to get a notification if there is a new text to translate for me?

erkanfiles: Thew newsletter gets sent at the last Friday of each month (generally)

erkanfiles, if you are able to be on this room, we can tell you, if not, you can always ask us before the month is about to end

erkanfiles: So best bet would be to hang out here around that time.

K

jc: for December we might have more stuff with stuff being done at CCC

Ok, but if no-one writes blog posts about it, there's nothing to link to in the newsletter

I'm going to send something on the members list at least, to invite people to visit us. Do you think we can also twitter or something?

Hmm, right

Ill be at the C35C3 so there will be no time for translate before dec 31th

pep. I don't like linking to tweets, they don't contain enough info IMO

jc: I wasn't saying we should link tweets

I was just wondering if we could tweet about the xmpp assembly

That's SPAM though maybe

SCAM*

oh

Tweeting is part of the commsteam as well

But nobody takes it super seriously 😛

I do have access to the twitter account and I tweet the newsletter once a month

> But nobody takes it super seriously 😛 What he said.

More content is more better