FWN on Fedora Insight: roll up meeting

[Pascal Calarco]

News Team (and Mel) --

I attended the marketing team meeting today, and we discussed Fedora 
Insight, and FWN on FI[1].  I have some updates, and a request, for you.

The Docs team is currently working on getting a WYSIWYG editor packaged 
with Zikula for Fedora Insight, and this should be in place within the 
next few dates, if all goes well.

Both Dale and I have been experimenting with FWN on Fedora Insight over 
the last few weeks, and have identified a couple needs to help make 
workflow as easy as possible for adding, editing and approving content 
on Fedora Insight:

1) Need for an HTML-aware WYSIWYG editor within Fedora Insight; wiki 
markup won't work on Fedora Insight, and so we need to add references in 
news articles as HTML <a href="..."></a>  for example.  Dale has also 
noted[2] that it would be really useful to be able to easily reference 
mediawiki objects like User, Package, etc.  We'll have to see how we can 
tailor the WYSIWYG editor with shortcuts to these, if at all.

2) Need to create subcategories under FWN; I have gone in and created 
news categories for each beat corresponding to the active beats we 
currently have.

3) Extended timeout value for Zikula so beat writers aren't logged off 
while they are entering news items;

Now, Fedora Insight is going to launch on October 14th, which is a 
Wednesday, and we hope to have the first FWN issue available on Fedora 
Insight the following Monday, on October 19.  To be ready for this, we 
need to have all beat writers take some time to get into the test Zikula 
site and familiarize ourselves with it.

Please read over the Fedora Insight pages[3] and then establish a FAS 
account on the test system[4] and ask to be added to the CMS_admin group 
in the test FAS instance[5]

Okay, next, I'd like to have a Fedora News IRC meeting, sometime next 
week or the first part of the following week, prior to October 14th.  
I've set a Doodle poll up so we can register when we would be available 
to meet on IRC.  When you have a chance, please look at your schedule 
and respond:

http://www.doodle.com/hxcyxir4uuubc73k

Okay, that's enough to get us started.  Questions or comments?  Thanks all!

  - pascal

[1] 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-September/msg00173.html
[2] 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-marketing-list/2009-September/msg00138.html
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight
[4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight#Check_it_out.21
[5] https://publictest3.fedoraproject.org/accounts