Douglas Anderson wrote:
> Hi, I was in contact with Anant about with month's GMN. He sent me some
> forwards and I spent about 4 hours getting some stuff rounded up. I got
> quite a bit of it done and forwarded it back to him 5 days ago, but I
> now realize he's away, so if there's any one else that could salvage
> this month's newsletter, here's what I have:
>
> Couple thing I wasn't sure about, as it was my first time:
>
> * The song that was submitted needs to be preformatted (if you even want
> to include the
> lyrics in the body of the newsletter, that's up to you), but wrapping
> in <pre></pre> labels it as code. Not sure how to work around that.
>
> * I read the council meeting minutes, but couldn't really figure out when
> the next meeting is scheduled for, probably better for you to ask a
> council dev directly.
>
> *I slightly reformatted and used a news item from
> neddyseagoon's site which hasn't been released:
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~neddyseagoon/docs/Foundation_News.xml
> <http://dev.gentoo.org/%7Eneddyseagoon/docs/Foundation_News.xml>. I
> emailed the trustees to check that this was OK but haven't gotten a
> response. You'll probably want to check with Roy and make sure this
> version is OK to ship.
>
> *What should we do for tips? If you don't have
> something lined up already, we could use one of
> these?
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-715980.html
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-79791.html
>
> Really, it's my first time doing this and I wasn't in contact with
> anyone so there's probably a lot of little stuff that could be ironed
> out... but if anyone has the time, let's not let it go to waste!

>
> -Doug
Wrong list. The GDP has nothing to do with the GMN, aside from a
developer that's on both teams (me). I've already been writing the
newsletter -- it's much, much further along than this copy; I sent mine
to Anant earlier today.