Ubuntu Wiki

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Create Template

Got to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/IssueTemplate Replace the word Template with the number of the next edition of the newsletter you will be working on You will also need to make sure once it is created you go into the wiki and Add the issue number and the dates it will cover

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Clear out unused sections

Once you have the Template created and have added the issue number and dates make sure you take the sections you know you will not be using takes the clutter of the wiki out of your way

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Add Images to the wiki

add the newsletter image and the CCL image to the wiki these can be found as attachments on previous issues. I downloaded them to my computer and just attach them each week

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Send out reminder emails

This are optional but helpful if you can get people from the lists to help you get the information to you

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LoCo Teams

This are optional but helpful if you can get people from the lists to help you get the information to you

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Reminder Blog Post

This are optional but helpful if you can get people from the lists to help you get the information to you

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Welcome

EIC adds this section highlights and SHORT summary of what the issue is about - Gets added right before you publish

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In this Issue

Gets added right before you publish bullet points of table of contents

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Bug Stats

http://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs

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Translation Stats Lucid

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

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Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week

https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid (or current release)

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LoCo News

Keep and eye on the Planet, the LoCo Directory, and other LoCo team Blogs you can add to your RSS Feeds, also the loco-contacts mailing list

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Launchpad News

http://blog.launchpad.net/

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Ubuntu Forums News

Comes from the Forums but only used rarely

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The Planet

http://planet.ubuntu.com/

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In The Press

Various Sources Things Ubuntu-specific are great, but general Linux goings-on are good to, to an extent.We don't need to replicate Digg & Slashdot, but certain things are of special interest.

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In The Blogosphere

Various Sources

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In Other News

Various Sources

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Monthly Team Reports

We have a script that pulls these

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Upcoming Meetings and Events

These come from The Fridge Calendar, and Classroom Calendar

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Updates and Security

We have a script that pulls these

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Credits

Make sure anyone who actively worked on the current issue is credited

After 1-22 are complete

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Proof Issue you and 2 others

This should take at least 30 mins to critically proof. Make sure the people you ask to proof it will take their time and be critical with things like grammar, spelling, etc...

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Make sure all links are valid

Just click on them and make sure they open the page they are supposed to

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Spell Check issue

Use gedit or some other text editor you are familiar as you will need a txt version of the newsletter anyway

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Take out wiki commented out lines

items in the wiki that have the ## in from of. Remove the complete text not just the ##

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In a Text editor take out the marks

remove all the camelcase breaks - is used to make wikipage look like the rest of the text - EXAMPLE LoCo will always be a link if you do not make it look like LoCo in the wiki markup.

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Save a text version as uwnissuenumerin.txt (uwn195in.txt)

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Convert uwnissuenumerin.txt (uwn195in.txt) to uwnissuenumerout.txt (uwn195out.txt)

we have a script for this as the out version is the one that gets posted to the Forums

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Send the the -news mailing list

The *ONLY* mail that should every be sent to the ubuntu-news list is the newsletter. Nothing else should appear on this list.

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Send the notice to ubuntu-news-team ML

Once the Full Text Version of the Newsletter is sent to the ubuntu-news ML, then you send the NOTICE ONLY to the ubuntu-news-team list. This only gets sent after the full txt version is published to the ubuntu-news ML

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IRC -locoteams

"Notice is pasted in this Channel - The new edition of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is now available here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue195(change the Issue Number to reflect the current issue you are publishing)"

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IRC-news

"Notice is pasted in this Channel - The new edition of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is now available here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue195 (change the Issue Number to reflect the current issue you are publishing)"

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IRC-us

"Notice is pasted in this Channel - The new edition of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is now available here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue195 (change the Issue Number to reflect the current issue you are publishing)"

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IRC-marketing

"Notice is pasted in this Channel - The new edition of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is now available here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue195 (change the Issue Number to reflect the current issue you are publishing)"

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Post to the Forums

A Forum Moderator will do this/EIC is also a Forums Moderator

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Post to the Fridge

A Fridge Editor will do this/EIC is also a Fridge Editor

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Post to the planet

If your blog is syndicated to the planet. However you can also publish the newsletter to the planet by using the "planetubuntu" tag on the Fridge

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Dent/Tweet/FB (social-media) that the issue is ready

Everyone is encouraged to do this

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Email LoCo-Contacts mailing list

loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com

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Email Translation Team Mailing list

ubuntu-translators@lists.ubuntu.com

After steps 23-41 are complete on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter

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Change Current Issue Link

edit the Current Issue Link to reflect the issue you just completed

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Change Current Issue number

edit the Current Issue number to reflect the issue you just completed

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Next Issue

edit the upcoming issue link

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add current issue to archives

add issue just published to the archives