XMPP Newsletter

Here you can submit news items for inclusion in the next XMPP Newsletter (as managed by the CommTeam).

Live discussion
xmpp:commteam@muc.xmpp.org?join

What determines relevancy?
The submission must ideally be a blog or article about XMPP/Jabber and/or XMPP-based software (clients, servers, libs).

Some exceptions might be made, for example for a release page showing a new release of some XMPP-based software.

However, marketing brochures (e.g. single-page marketing sites) for new products which don't contain information on XMPP, won't be included.

Make sure you read the Basic communication guide for XMPP techies

Process

 * 1) Before: duration 1 month
 * 2) Collect links in this wiki page: duration 3-4 weeks
 * 3) * Read and validate the content
 * 4) * Include the reporters credits!
 * 5) Copywrite so each content is readable by humans: duration 2-3 days
 * 6) * Add links
 * 7) * Add images
 * 8) * Add CTAs
 * 9) * Carefully craft the subject/title line, and the preview text (first lines that are sometimes previewed on email UAs)
 * 10) * Include the copywriters credits!
 * 11) PR on website git repo for blog post (Markdown, Pelican): duration the week-end before posting
 * 12) * Include Pelican header
 * 13) * Change == in #
 * 14) * Change links format
 * 15) * Change images format
 * 16) * Need at least 2 or 3 peer reviews
 * 17) * Include the reviewers credits!
 * 18) Twitter:
 * 19) * Copywrite and review draft tweet: text, image, hashtags, link
 * 20) Sending the newsletter: on D-day
 * 21) Copy-paste Newsletter on Tinyletter, test it (peer review is not yet done), send it
 * 22) Report analytics from latest newsletter in spreadsheet, send to commTeam MUC
 * 23) PR merge and deploy on website git repo for blog post
 * 24) Twitter:
 * 25) * post draft tweet
 * 26) * Report monthly metrics
 * 27) Translations: after D-day
 * 28) Start the translations: publish before next newsletter :)
 * 29) * French: published on JabberFr.org and LinuxFr.org, working on Etherpad, need format ?
 * 30) * German translation of the newsletter: published on jabber.de, review see below
 * 31) * Spanish: published jabber.de (looking for spanish publisher, evtl. suchat.org), working on ?, need format ?
 * 32) * Polish: published ?, working on ?, need format ?
 * 33) LinkedIn (would be nice to get it back)
 * 34) Empty this page, keep structure for next newsletter

Planning
December
 * 2019-11-25 Mon: copywriting starts
 * 2019-11-29 Fri: end of link submission, PR on GitHub
 * 2019-12-03 Tue: newsletter publication, blog post, promotion tweets

Current newsletter

 * XMPP Newsletter January 2020

Past newsletters

 * Soon... XMPP Newsletter November 2019
 * Soon... XMPP Newsletter December 2019

Translations
German translations