I absolutely agree with Harry and Andreas that the newsletter should reach beyond the chapter & list communities to the much larger group of UK-based editors and readers. And donors, though they are supposed to be getting their own version. We should always bear this in mind, and encourage contributions from outside the existing r-l community, but probably early numbers will concentrate UK news on chapter & meetup affairs, as well as wider issues like the internet bill thingy. But the main thing is to get one going. Obviously, from the chapter POV, the newsletter should be a prime means of reaching out to the wider community and recruiting active volunteers.
John
A model such as the Wikipedia signpost might work...
Which, for those that don't know, has a fairly regular format of things it covers (with a nice layout), plus it accepts articles/editorial from the community.
I'm sure the current monthly reports could be formatted in a similar way; find someone to be an "editor" to write the intro each month, and perhaps coerce jon into writing a short CE's report and you have the makings of a newsletter.
Then it's a case of drumming up other articles :)
Tom
On 22 November 2012 12:32, John Byrne john@bodkinprints.co.uk wrote:
r own version. We should always bear this in mind, and encourage contributions from outside the existing r-l community, but probably early numbers will concentrate UK news on chapter & meetup affairs, as well as wider issues like the internet bill thingy. But the main thing is to get one going. Obviously, from the chapter POV, the newsletter should be a prime means of reaching out to the wider community and recruiting active volunteers.
This is, of course, the way that we originally started the newsletters/reports way back in 2008, when we took the Signpost model and adapted it. ;-)
E.g. see: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Newsletter/July2009 http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK_v2.0/Newsletter/Subscribers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mike_Peel/Archive_6#Wikimedia_UK_News...
Thanks, Mike
On 22 Nov 2012, at 12:36, Thomas Morton morton.thomas@googlemail.com wrote:
A model such as the Wikipedia signpost might work...
Which, for those that don't know, has a fairly regular format of things it covers (with a nice layout), plus it accepts articles/editorial from the community.
I'm sure the current monthly reports could be formatted in a similar way; find someone to be an "editor" to write the intro each month, and perhaps coerce jon into writing a short CE's report and you have the makings of a newsletter.
Then it's a case of drumming up other articles :)
Tom
On 22 November 2012 12:32, John Byrne john@bodkinprints.co.uk wrote: r own version. We should always bear this in mind, and encourage contributions from outside the existing r-l community, but probably early numbers will concentrate UK news on chapter & meetup affairs, as well as wider issues like the internet bill thingy. But the main thing is to get one going. Obviously, from the chapter POV, the newsletter should be a prime means of reaching out to the wider community and recruiting active volunteers.
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