XMPP Newsletter

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

To contributors, editors, reviewers, translators

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. Link collection: duration 1 month
   • Read and validate the content
   • Include the reporters credits!
   • Check that it's not duplicate, and in the correct section
2. Copywrite so each content is readable by humans: duration 1 week
   • Add links
   • Add images
   • Add CTAs
   • Carefully craft the subject/title line, and the preview text (first lines that are sometimes previewed on email UAs)
   • Include the copywriters credits!
3. PR on website git repo for blog post (Markdown, Pelican): duration the week-end before posting
   • Include Pelican header: date, time, file name
   • Translate Mediawiki syntax to Github's Markdown: https://sinnwerkstatt.github.io/MediaWiki-to-Markdown-Javascript-Converter/
   • Need at least 2 or 3 peer reviews
   • Include the reviewers credits!
4. Sending the newsletter: on D-day
   1. Copy-paste Newsletter on Tinyletter
   2. Test it (peer review is not yet done)
   3. Send it
5. Blog post: PR merge and deploy on website git repo on D-day
6. Social media posts
   • text
   • image
   • hashtags
   • link
7. Metrics/analytics in CommTeam MUC
   • Twitter monthly metrics
   • Newsletter analytics
8. Propose schedule for next issue
9. Translations: after D-day

Planning

March:

• 2020-02-24 Mon: copywriting starts
• 2020-02-28 Thu: end of link submission, PR on GitHub (during XMPP Summit)
• 2020-03-03 Tue: newsletter publication, blog post, promotion tweets

Current newsletter

• XMPP Newsletter template
• XMPP Newsletter August 2020 (next)
• XMPP Newsletter July 2020

Past newsletters

• XMPP Newsletter November 2019
• XMPP Newsletter December 2019
• XMPP Newsletter January 2020
• XMPP Newsletter February 2020
• XMPP Newsletter March 2020
• XMPP Newsletter April 2020
• XMPP Newsletter May 2020
• XMPP Newsletter June 2020

Translations

• German translations
• French translations
• Spanish translations
• Polish translations

Metrics, statistics, analytics

• Newsletter:
  • Absolute subs growth
  • Relative subs growth
  • Open and click rates
• Twitter metrics