This page explains HOWTO contribute to ProjectNews and what YOU can do to help it.
HOWTO contribute
Contributing to ProjectNews is easy but depends on your skills and the amount of time you can spare.
Send interesting news
The easiest way to help us is to inform us about interesting things happening in the Debian universe. Debian is a quite big project, and we don't have the manpower to monitor every mailing list, blog, news site for content we might want to add to our ProjectNews. So tell us, if you noticed something interesting happening. You can usually to this by sending an E-Mail to debian-publicity@lists.debian.org.
What you should send
Generaly speaking: Everything which might have an noticable impact on the Debian Project at large and it's user base in special.
Some ideas:
- Discussion taking place on a mailing list, which will have an
- noticable impact (e.g. License Discussion, scheduled transition from Project foo to Project bar, discussion about General Resolutions, etc.)
- Smaller announcements from subprojects:
- debian installer about to release beta3, testing requested
- French debconf translations reach 100%
- cdrkit capable of burning blue ray discs
- ...
Interesting Bug Reports (ever looked at http://bugs.debian.org/245047?)
- You represent Debian at a conference or exhibition (with a booth, talk, workshop, etc.)
- You wrote an report after having represented Debian at a conference or exhibition
- Debian related reviews / tests / articles in other media / websites / mailing lists / blogs
- ...
Things you don't need to report
Debian release -- we probably know it allready
Of course the above list is far from beeing complete. Especially we would like to point out, that the we can't monitore other media, websites, blogs and everything else. So it's very valuable to report anything you think fitting to the ProjectNews to our mailing lists debian-publicity@lists.debian.org.