The presentation discusses the openSUSE Weekly News, which collects posts from sources like mailing lists, blogs, and tickers to publish under topics such as announcements, community events, and status updates. It is structured with sections and published each week after being translated into 13 languages. The editors gather content throughout the week and finalize the newsletter on Saturdays for translation and publication on Tuesdays. They also contribute to the German Linux radio podcast Radiotux.

1. Community Week:
OpenSUSE Weekly News
Presentation: Sascha Manns
Title: What's behind Weekly News?
Member of OpenSUSE Marketing Team

2. © August 3, 2015 Novell Inc.
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Index
Welcome to our short Introduction. You'll find these
Topics in the Presentation:
•What are the openSUSE Weekly News?
•What are our sources?
•How are the Weekly News structured?
•What's the work behind the Weekly News?

3. What are the openSUSE Weekly News?

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The Weekly News is an Internet publication.
We collect posts from different sources, and
publish that in our Weekly News. We have
different topics: Announcements, In the
Community, status updates, Planet SuSE,
and on the Web. We try to structure the
posts under these topics. At the moment we
have 2 editors for the main newsletter and
many Translators. They translate the
newsletter into 13 languages.
What are the openSUSE Weekly News
Testing

5. What are your sources?

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We have many sources:
Mailinglists: announcements, factory,
KDE/GNOME, features, marketing, security
announce and different development lists.
Blogs: PlanetSUSE, lizards, news, tuxmachines,
hedgehogpainter, openSUSE Member Blogs,
ZDNET and a few other.
Ticker: packman, OBS/Factory, Slashdot, Free
Software Foundation.
What are your sources
Testing

7. How is the Newsletter structured?

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Announcements: here we publish posts from
news.o.o, zonkers spotlight and from the announce
mailinglist.
In the Community: this place is intended for
Community Week, events and People of openSUSE.
Status Updates: this is a place for Board-, Build
Service- and Distribution-related stuff. We post
messages, minutes and meeting transscripts.
Tips and Tricks: infos for beginners and
power-users.
How is the Newsletter strucutred
Testing

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New/updated Applications: Emails, Blog-posts and Messages
from OBS (openSUSE BuildService).
PlanetSUSE: assorted posts from PlanetSUSE.
openSUSE Forums: selected posts from the Forums (tnx to
Carl Fletcher)
On the Web: Blogs and other stuff, not only related to
openSUSE.
Meetings/Events: infos about past and upcoming events like
IRC Team meetings.
Security Updates: Security Announcements
How is the Newsletter structured (2)
Testing

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Statistics: Statistics from Bugzilla, openFATE and the
Build Service. Jan-Simon has written an nice tool for
fetching the statistics. Since then it is a Joy to get the
statistics ;-)
How is the Newsletter structured (3)
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11. Workflow behind Weekly News?

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We have published our workflow.
Please follow the Link.
We collect during the whole week content for the Weekly
News. Every Saturday at 10:00 UTC the Newsletter get
status “FREEZED”. Then we make the Newsletter ready
for translation and send the “readymail”. The Translators
start now to translate. At Tuesday we publish the
Newsletter, and linking it to news.o.o, to our portal and
the site: en.o.o
Workflow behind the
Weekly News
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13. What other projects we
contribute?

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We are contributing Radiotux. This is the
german Linux Radio. We publish an
german-spoken Version for the Lifestream
and for the Podcast.
http://blog.radiotux.de
What other Projects we contribute
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You can reach us:
Jan-Simon Möller
<dl9pf@opensuse.org>
Sascha Manns
<saigkill@opensuse.org>
IRC: #opensuse-newsletter
@ irc.freenode.net
Project-Email:
opensuse-marketing@opensuse.org
Credits and Feedback
Testing

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