#fedora-meeting: Magazine editorial board

Meeting summary

1. Roll call (stickster, 21:00:07)
   
2. Last week's stats (stickster, 21:04:10)
   1. Week of Jun 26 = 40.6K views, down slightly from week before and continuing lower trend but this is fairly normal for summer (stickster, 21:05:12)
   2. June ~199.1K views, vs. May 217.1K, April 226.5K... again, summer is always slower. Note these numbers are up almost 50% for Apr/May y/y; June is not but that was a release month in 2016 (stickster, 21:06:49)
   
   
3. Release info (stickster, 21:07:55)
   1. F26 GA is *go* for Tue Jul 11 (stickster, 21:08:04)
   2. stickster reminded folks in the readiness meeting that we expect a draft of the announcement in the Magazine in advance, and stickster can be ready to push the Publish button when ready (stickster, 21:08:41)
   3. ACTION: jwf will write customary upgrade article (stickster, 21:09:17)
   4. ACTION: ryanlerch capture f25-26 upgrade picture from gnome-software (stickster, 21:14:10)
   5. ACTION: ryanlerch to do featured image for upgrade article too (ryanlerch, 21:14:55)
   6. ACTION: ryanlerch to do featured image for release annoucnement (ryanlerch, 21:14:56)
   7. IDEA: For upgrade article, linking back internally to the forthcoming backup series (if ready by release day) (jwf, 21:17:09)
   
   
4. Interjection by Yr. Humble Servant (stickster, 21:19:47)
   1. stickster will be offline from basically the next hour until Sunday evening, mostly without any computer access (stickster, 21:20:19)
   
   
5. Pending review (stickster, 21:21:26)
   1. --- All the JWF Articles(tm) --- (stickster, 21:21:35)
   2. AGREED: Kubernetes #2 out tomorrow (Fri Jul 07) (stickster, 21:29:57)
   
   
6. Drafts (stickster, 21:30:08)
   1. https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=post (stickster, 21:30:13)
   2. --- backup articles --- (stickster, 21:30:48)
   3. ACTION: jwf contact Link to see if he'll give go-ahead for backup article #1 on Monday July 10 (stickster, 21:33:06)
   4. --- Python Classroom Lab --- (stickster, 21:34:00)
   5. https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=17958&preview=1&_ppp=1a8c079676 (stickster, 21:34:02)
   6. AGREED: tentatively schedule Python Classroom Lab post for Wed Jul 12 (if we get backup #1 out Mon Jul 10); otherwise it could go out Mon Jul 10 if desired (stickster, 21:37:32)
   
   
7. Pitches (stickster, 21:38:02)
   1. https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=pitch&post_type=post (stickster, 21:38:03)
   2. --- Smartcards for DoD sites --- (stickster, 21:38:18)
   3. https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=17967&preview=true (stickster, 21:38:22)
   4. AGREED: khris will begin writing first draft of smartcard + Fedora how-to article and aim to keep it general for other smartcard tools / libraries; ETA for a first draft is Wednesday (jwf, 22:00:40)
   
   
8. Publishing schedule (jwf, 22:02:01)
   1. AGREED: PUBLISHING SCHEDULE: Fri, July 7: Kubernetes pt. 2; Mon, July 10: Backups pt.1 / Python Classroom Lab; Tue, July 11: F26 announcement, F25=>F26 upgrade article; Wed, July 12: Python Classroom Lab (if backups pt.1 on Monday) (jwf, 22:05:40)
   
   
9. Open floor (jwf, 22:06:13)
   1. ACTION: ryanlerch / stickster Recycle last week's featured image for "Clustered computing on Fedora with Minikube", schedule article for tomorrow once image is added (jwf, 22:10:12)

Action items

1. jwf will write customary upgrade article
2. ryanlerch capture f25-26 upgrade picture from gnome-software
3. ryanlerch to do featured image for upgrade article too
4. ryanlerch to do featured image for release annoucnement
5. jwf contact Link to see if he'll give go-ahead for backup article #1 on Monday July 10
6. ryanlerch / stickster Recycle last week's featured image for "Clustered computing on Fedora with Minikube", schedule article for tomorrow once image is added

Action items, by person

1. jwf
   1. jwf will write customary upgrade article
   2. jwf contact Link to see if he'll give go-ahead for backup article #1 on Monday July 10
2. ryanlerch
   1. ryanlerch capture f25-26 upgrade picture from gnome-software
   2. ryanlerch to do featured image for upgrade article too
   3. ryanlerch to do featured image for release annoucnement
   4. ryanlerch / stickster Recycle last week's featured image for "Clustered computing on Fedora with Minikube", schedule article for tomorrow once image is added
3. stickster
   1. ryanlerch / stickster Recycle last week's featured image for "Clustered computing on Fedora with Minikube", schedule article for tomorrow once image is added

People present (lines said)

1. stickster (81)
2. jwf (81)
3. ryanlerch (31)
4. khris (15)
5. zodbot (10)
6. sbrady1[m] (4)
7. kthebyrd (2)
8. mattdm (2)