12:00:16 <stickster> #startmeeting Magazine editorial board
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12:00:18 <stickster> #meetingname magazine
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12:00:21 <stickster> #topic Roll call
12:00:23 <stickster> .hello pfrields
12:00:24 <ryanlerch> .hello ryanlerch
12:00:24 <zodbot> stickster: pfrields 'Paul W. Frields' <stickster@gmail.com>
12:00:26 <cverna> hello
12:00:27 <zodbot> ryanlerch: ryanlerch 'Ryan Lerch' <rlerch@redhat.com>
12:00:41 <ryanlerch> hi stickster, cverna !
12:00:50 <cverna> ryanlerch: o/
12:01:03 * cprofitt waves
12:01:10 <stickster> #chair ryanlerch cverna cprofitt
12:01:10 <zodbot> Current chairs: cprofitt cverna ryanlerch stickster
12:01:15 <stickster> cprofitt! good to see you
12:01:36 * stickster has to depart at :30 and will hand gavel to ryanlerch then. In the meantime, let's get rolling
12:01:39 <cprofitt> good to see you too. I may get pulled away as this is the start of my work day...
12:01:47 <stickster> no worries at all, understand completely
12:01:52 <stickster> #topic Last week's stats
12:02:29 <stickster> My kids are off school today, so I'm running late because I had to take care of all the morning stuff while everyone else sleeps in
12:03:17 <stickster> #info Week of March 12: 52.2K pageviews -- down again unfortunately :-(
12:03:36 <stickster> #info However, month of March is shaping up pretty well with almost 173K pageviews so far
12:04:05 <stickster> Thank you ryanlerch for the extra news articles on Firefox and GNOME!
12:04:22 <ryanlerch> puiterwijk++ for the tip on the firefox article!
12:04:36 <stickster> \o/
12:05:01 <stickster> #topic Leftover task: schedule
12:05:05 <ryanlerch> stickster: our daily average for the year is still solid atm too
12:05:12 <stickster> yeah, that's going well IMHO
12:05:30 <stickster> #info stickster didn't do whenisgood as he was supposed to, will get it done today pronto as soon as I clear some meetings
12:05:44 <stickster> #action stickster get promised whenisgood post done ASAP
12:05:46 <ryanlerch> 9558/day so far thisyear
12:06:00 <ryanlerch> last year we averaged 8620
12:06:07 <stickster> Ooo, that is good news
12:06:26 <ryanlerch> and no release month yet either so far this year
12:06:48 <stickster> If we want to make 4M pageviews, that would require about 11200-ish a day
12:07:04 <stickster> not sure the math in my head is that good at this time of a.m.
12:07:09 <ryanlerch> :)
12:07:24 <stickster> nope, a little under 11000/day
12:07:29 <cverna> might be possible with the releases
12:07:34 <stickster> calculator says I need more coffee
12:08:06 <stickster> cverna: ryanlerch: agree -- with release articles coming up soon we'll get a usual big boost
12:08:31 * cverna propose to have 4 release a year just for the magazine pageviews count :)
12:08:35 <stickster> haha
12:08:54 <ryanlerch> cverna: or more major secuity issues ;D
12:08:55 <stickster> Well, it might be possible to have more sizable announcements with modules, flatpaks, etc.
12:09:03 <stickster> ryanlerch: yeeeeesh :-\  :-D
12:09:13 <stickster> OK moving on...
12:09:21 <stickster> #topic Drafts to review
12:09:25 <stickster> #link https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft
12:09:50 <stickster> I'm skipping gnokii's articles for the moment. Until he gets word back to us, these are on hold. He's been quite busy with hiring at his company.
12:10:11 <stickster> cverna: I think you're still working on the Python devel article, so I guess that's it for this list
12:10:31 * cverna did not start yet
12:10:46 <cverna> I ll start working on it
12:11:00 <cverna> and should have something for next week
12:11:25 <stickster> sounds good to me!
12:12:14 <stickster> #topic New pitches
12:12:22 <stickster> #link https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=pitch&post_type=post
12:12:45 <stickster> #info --- New Spanish dictionaries ---
12:12:47 <stickster> #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=20590&preview=1&_ppp=8a030cd2de
12:13:27 <stickster> I put this pitch in last night, based on a Feedback submission we got. These new dictionaries have much increased dialect support (there are quite a few varieties of Spanish language), and they affect LOTS of apps like LibreOffice, Firefox, etc.
12:13:46 <ryanlerch> +1 from me on this!
12:13:52 <cverna> yes +1
12:14:16 <cprofitt> +1 from me as well
12:16:31 <stickster> #agreed Spanish dictionaries pitch approved
12:16:53 <stickster> I guess I can take this one although my time is pretty tight. ryanlerch could you do an image for this to save me some time?
12:16:54 * ryanlerch just added a new pitch to the mix too FWIW
12:16:58 <stickster> oooo nice
12:17:08 <ryanlerch> stickster: re:image -- for sure
12:17:30 <stickster> #info --- DevConf.us call for papers ---
12:17:39 <stickster> #link https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=20597&preview=true
12:18:26 <cverna> +1 here
12:18:30 <stickster> ryanlerch: cverna: Hey, I just realized I do *not* have a stop at :30 today, due to time change mismatch with EU!
12:18:40 <cverna> \o/
12:18:53 <ryanlerch> yay! timezone win!
12:19:32 <stickster> ryanlerch: yeah, good for this time only... next occurrence in two weeks is back to the same problem 😂
12:20:12 <stickster> +1 on this pitch, langdon may want to be aware of it too
12:20:33 <stickster> #agreed Pitch approved: DevConf.us call for papers closing soon
12:20:51 <stickster> Oh man, I forgot to #action everything
12:20:53 <ryanlerch> stickster: was going to try to wrangle him to write it :D
12:20:59 <stickster> #action ryanlerch image for Spanish dictionaries article
12:21:05 <ryanlerch> if not, i can do it :D
12:21:05 <stickster> #action stickster write Spanish dictionaries article
12:21:18 <stickster> #action ryanlerch contact langdon to get short article on DevConf.us CFP closing soon
12:22:14 <stickster> it should be pretty easy to write :-)
12:22:36 <stickster> I want to move some of these never-gonna-do pitches into trash
12:22:55 <ryanlerch> stickster: +1 from me on that!
12:23:06 <cverna> +1 too
12:23:13 <cverna> that will make it easier to follow
12:23:27 <cprofitt> +1
12:24:18 <stickster> Here's the ones I would move to trash with no followup (you can +1 each by letter):  (A) Writing MD doc and pushing to git;  (B) dmidecode command;  (C) V-rep on Fedora
12:24:33 <stickster> (or -1 them if you disagree, that's cool too!)
12:24:54 <ryanlerch> +1 to all three from me!
12:24:54 <cprofitt> +1 to all
12:25:21 <cverna> me +1 to all
12:25:29 <cverna> me too :)
12:25:53 <ryanlerch> stickster: should we holding pen a few of the others?
12:26:11 <ryanlerch> there are a few there that havent been touched for nearly a year
12:26:15 <stickster> #agreed trash MD doc, dmidecode, and V-rep pitches
12:26:30 <ryanlerch> or at least, drop them to starter pitches
12:27:21 <stickster> ryanlerch: I was going to suggest that we blank these and move them to starter pitches: (A) Windows apps on Fedora; (B) Jed editor
12:27:52 <ryanlerch> stickster: +1 for both a) and b)
12:28:10 <cverna> +1 too
12:28:35 <stickster> #agreed blank Win apps and Jed pitches, and return them to starter pitches
12:31:48 <stickster> Any other pitches? ooooo ryanlerch, I think I see a new one you just dropped in here
12:32:07 <stickster> #info --- Using audacity to remove background noise from audio ---
12:32:27 <stickster> +1 on this... I've done that before myself and it's super useful
12:32:39 <cverna> +1
12:32:43 <ryanlerch> yeah, this is a quick tip / turorial tht i do somethimes too
12:32:52 <stickster> #agreed Pitch approved: Audacity noise removal
12:33:14 <ryanlerch> stickster: i will def need a review from someone more knowledgeable in sound recording than I
12:33:57 <ryanlerch> an article ike this is is bound to bring out the audio commenters :D
12:34:21 <cverna> release the audio commenters !!!!
12:34:26 <cverna> :)
12:35:21 <stickster> lol
12:35:31 <stickster> ryanlerch: I'll review for you, I love that stuff
12:36:01 <stickster> #info --- Use Python/Gstreamer to rip CDs ---
12:36:40 <stickster> I have a script to do this when I get a new CD, using gst to turn the CD into audio files, and the newest musicbrainz lib for python to get the cover art and tag the files
12:37:07 <cverna> +1 too
12:37:40 <ryanlerch> +1
12:37:59 <stickster> #agreed Pitch approved: Python/Gstreamer to rip CDs
12:38:31 <stickster> OK, I think I'm out of ideas for today :-)
12:38:38 <ryanlerch> #info -- article about peek screenshot tool
12:38:47 <stickster> aha, ryanlerch is back in the game!!!
12:38:52 <ryanlerch> this one is in flathub only
12:39:16 <ryanlerch> it is why i wrote the flathub article a little bit ago -- but then forgot to pitch this
12:39:25 <stickster> Sounds good to me, +1
12:40:17 <cverna> +1
12:40:28 <cverna> flathub is quite nice
12:41:32 <x3mboy> .hello2
12:41:33 <zodbot> x3mboy: x3mboy 'Eduard Lucena' <eduardlucena@gmail.com>
12:42:17 <stickster> #agreed Pitch approved: Peek flatpak
12:42:25 <stickster> OK, any others?
12:42:34 <stickster> going once
12:42:40 <stickster> going twice
12:42:46 <stickster> moving on...
12:42:56 <stickster> #topic Publishing schedule
12:42:57 <ryanlerch> sorry got one!
12:43:01 <stickster> #undo
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12:43:03 <stickster> haha
12:43:47 <ryanlerch> was thinking this might be a good article to re-post on the magazine: https://patrick.uiterwijk.org/blog/2018/2/23/fedora-package-delivery-security
12:44:00 <ryanlerch> with permission from puiterwijk of course :D
12:44:50 <cverna> oh yes that would be nice
12:44:52 <puiterwijk> Sure. My posts are all CC-BY-SA anyway :)
12:45:16 * stickster likes it! Do we want to repost verbatim, or modify for style? I'm fine either way.
12:46:57 <ryanlerch> i think it would almost be ready to go -- other than slightly tweaking the top paragraph
12:47:31 <stickster> and perhaps the bottom one.... but it also could be posted "as-is" and labeled as a reprint. Either way seems good
12:48:01 <stickster> the key issues I see are use of first-person pronouns which we explicitly don't do (I/we/my/our/etc.)
12:48:22 <stickster> they're perfect on blogs but we avoid them on Magazine
12:48:27 <ryanlerch> i can negotiate with patrick, and take editing chrage is he doesnt mind
12:48:35 <puiterwijk> Sure, go right ahead
12:48:49 <stickster> "I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today"
12:49:14 <stickster> #agreed Pitch approved: reprint puiterwijk blog on package security
12:49:35 <stickster> OK, now it's schedule time :-)
12:49:41 <stickster> #topic Publishing schedule
12:50:51 <stickster> #proposed #agreed Fri 2018-03-23: Spanish dicts (stickster) -- Mon 2018-03-26: DevConf.us CFP (langdon/ryanlerch) -- Wed 2018-03-28: Python devel (cverna) -- Fri 2018-03-30 TBA (one of many pitches)
12:51:06 <cverna> +1
12:51:11 <ryanlerch> +1
12:51:26 <stickster> #agreed Fri 2018-03-23: Spanish dicts (stickster) -- Mon 2018-03-26: DevConf.us CFP (langdon/ryanlerch) -- Wed 2018-03-28: Python devel (cverna) -- Fri 2018-03-30 TBA (one of many pitches)
12:51:34 <stickster> #topic All other business / Open floor
12:51:39 <stickster> Anything else to cover?
12:52:06 <ryanlerch> i ahve a 2 things!
12:52:14 <puiterwijk> I have one
12:52:51 <ryanlerch> if anyone has any newsy tips -- just drop it in the irc channel (and maybe ping me)
12:53:08 <ryanlerch> always looking for good newsy tips for quick posts
12:53:21 <ryanlerch> the second is
12:53:48 <x3mboy> Hi!
12:53:53 <ryanlerch> should we add a permanent "ad" for the community blog in the sidebar of posts
12:54:10 <x3mboy> Please reserve next Friday (2018-03-30)
12:54:15 <stickster> ryanlerch: Ooo, that's a neat idea. Do you think we could do likewise in reverse too?
12:54:28 <stickster> x3mboy: ah, a new podcast article, can do!
12:54:35 <x3mboy> Yes
12:54:46 <ryanlerch> stickster: there is a link to the magazine at the top of the commblog at the moment
12:55:12 <x3mboy> Also, stickster can we set a time for interview you (ryanlerch ran away from me when I told him xD)
12:56:13 <cverna> I am +1 for the community blog "ad"
12:56:17 <stickster> x3mboy: yes, next Tuesday morning (EDT), and Wednesday afternoon > 2pm EDT I have slots available
12:56:43 <x3mboy> stickster, Wednesday works better from me
12:57:02 <x3mboy> I will sent you an invitation via Gcalendar, is that ok?
12:57:10 <stickster> x3mboy: maybe we should pick Wednesday night so ryanlerch can do it with us
12:57:29 <x3mboy> ryanlerch, BTW! Thanks, the restructure on the article was pretty nice
12:57:32 * ryanlerch is not really good at interviews :(
12:58:00 <stickster> ryanlerch: if you want to beg off, it's not a problem, I can hold down the fort on this one ;-)
12:58:20 <stickster> x3mboy: yes
12:58:25 <ryanlerch> stickster: i owe you a whole bag of caramel koalas :D
12:58:28 <stickster> haha
12:58:44 <stickster> ryanlerch: those timtams were a big hit
12:59:16 <x3mboy> Ok, so we set  Wednesday March 28th, 2pm EDT right?
12:59:16 <ryanlerch> stickster: timtams are easier to travel with -- they brick up nicely in a suitcase :D
12:59:24 <stickster> Nice! OK -- I'm going to close up shop if we're done here
12:59:27 <puiterwijk> I wanted to quickly reply to ryanlerch's comment, and say ryanlerch-- I would prefer not more major security issues :P
12:59:29 * stickster has a meeting in 60 sec
12:59:35 <stickster> puiterwijk++
12:59:42 <x3mboy> eof
12:59:44 <stickster> Thanks for coming everyone!
12:59:46 <ryanlerch> puiterwijk: did you have an open floor item?
12:59:51 <puiterwijk> ryanlerch: that was it :P
12:59:52 <stickster> I think that was it
12:59:54 <stickster> *jinx
12:59:56 <ryanlerch> hahaha
13:00:09 * ryanlerch apoligises :D
13:00:13 <stickster> #endmeeting