On a new Ubuntu News website
We got a UDS session about new ways to handle Ubuntu news today (blueprint, summary of the discussion). Basically, it comes down to three things :
- Convince people and teams this is really needed
- Posting restrictions : who can post, and how?
- Visibility of this website: We want better than that.
1) Ubuntu teams need to communicate. Call for participation of average users/potential contributors, global feedback (Ubuntu Brainstorm answer, shutting up rumors,…), recruitment of potential contributors…. But the Fridge, the only Ubuntu news medium for both average users and power users, has few content, has a very bad visibility for the outsiders, and is barely read by ‘insiders’.
2) Two possibles suggestions raised : everybody can post via the web interface (NOT via a mailing list), and they’re approved by staff. Or only members of some Ubuntu LP teams can freely post, acceptation inside a given Ubuntu team giving the right to post.
3) It is in fact part of a much bigger problem: navigation between Ubuntu community website is a mess. A UDS session is scheduled to discuss that.
Ok, now what’s this screenshot? It’s a screenshot of France24, a international news channel website (where I happen to work 
). And that’s a layout we thought could be much more interesting than the current blog layout for a news website!
Thoughts, opinions?