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There are so many cool people and so many interesting posts on this forums that it would be a shame not to make a (quarterly) newsletter, don't you think?
So my question is: would anybody like to write some article(s) every now and then? Would there be someone who would definitely read such a BBQ newsletter?

It would be some kind of ASCII newsletter like slartie's. Of course any other format will do, too (PDF? org-mode? HTML?)
The topics would cover how-tos, tips & tricks, software/movies/music reviews, maybe even recipes, funniest/stupidest quotes from our forums, maybe some interviews, etc etc., you name it.

So...

(revoting possible)

Of course I voted for "yes". But I would love to work with others :)

I would certainly read it. I am not sure I have much to share, but...maybe?

Reading: absolutely.
Writing: could be, but with 2 blogs out there I'll have to find something useful to say.

Oh yes, I will read every shit by our members. :)

I would even write on some stuff. I still have some how-to's in mind or if there is need for it and of course time but I think it is doable if I am really inspired.

Definitely a great idea Bacon.

I would write some stuff, mine would mostly be rants about stupid web designers. Maybe getting into some infosec things...

I'd definitely subscribe. Would save me the trouble of looking through all the threads to find good stuff, after all. Whether I'm able to contribute is another matter though. Downsized to a single laptop now, alternating between macOS and OpenBSD in a VM, and excluding updating the OpenWRT install on my router and mucking about with DSM on my Synology, my experience level with maintaining a 'real' Linux system these last couple of years is basically down to zero, so I'm about as clueless as a republican at a rave. I could join Wux and rant about web designers though.

Wow! great idea, I will most definitely read it.

I'm not sure how i can contribute since writing stuff is a herculean task for me.

wow nice, that would be a handful of possible contributors. As said, this is not a weekly thing, probably not even monthly. Only the "fresh" section would bring some Linux-related obscure news (no, not the ole "Linux Mint 24 Vaginae is out now!" shite), everything else can be stale.

- Welcome
- The Freshest (obscure Linux-related news)
- Forums Digest (interesting or funny posts on our forums)
- How You Roast (some howto or workflow)
- Kudos! (things that are good and nice)
- Rant here! (shit we don't like, I guess it will be mostly about GTK updates or idiot posts on other forums)
- GTFU (an article about a certain hobby)
- Intestines (BBQ news, this would certainly be the smallest part)

Just a suggestion, I am open for every stupid idea.

gutterslob wrote: I could join Wux and rant about web designers though.

:D

I guess yeah my workflow might be interesting to people - RFC on how it could be improved welcome.
hobbies include looking after babies and breaking up my older kids fighting...

Just plaintext format, I reckon. that or 'plaintext' html V0.01
we could go oldschool and have a login to the server and edit (with maybe a lockfile, so can't edit at the same time) online.
Or google docs... and of course submissions accepted and added.
if it's on the server it can be a webpage off the bbq domain too, so there's that.

In PDF form! Please? Then I can read offline when I can't get teh interwebz :)

For ideas you can have a look at this community effort from PCLinuxOS,

http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201701/links.html

Cheers!!!

noo_b_nomnoms wrote:In PDF form! Please? Then I can read offline when I can't get teh interwebz :)

Sir, it will be in troff format so you can "man issue1" ;)
of course exporting to PDF would be possible, but then we are in the world of GUIs again, to some extent :D

^ We'll send a .tex file so everybody can compile it to PDF in all its glory.

^ yes, if they have dvips and postscript and all that crap installed. I mean, originally the plaintext newsletter would not contain graphics, so why not simply exporting txt to PDF or reading it straight from source without additional steps :)
or we take rhow's idea and write it in plaintext -> convert to DOCx -> export to PDF -> use OCR to convert to epub -> call Calibre to make a .mobi -> save as... .txt

^ :D
Oh my, let's stay with plain text!