Ideas for the weekly newsletter

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 02:43:39PM -0700, Brian Burger wrote:
> On 6/5/06, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> >App of the week
> >
> >  Highlight an interesting application in main.  Write a one-paragraph
> >  introduction to an app you love, with a link to more information for
> >  interested users.  This would be a good way to help users discover new
> >  applications and make the most of their Ubuntu systems.
> >
> 
> Does this have to be limited to main repo? I know there's support (and
> potentially stability) issues in universe, but there are a lot of useful &
> stable apps in universe...

We want the audience to be as broad as possible, including users who choose
not to use unsupported or non-free software.  Indeed, we should prefer to
highlight software which is immediately available via Add/Remove, as that is
the most accessible to the most users.

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 - mdz