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Thanks for your reply sygys, however I believe there is some confusion, I'll try to clear it up.

Originally Posted by sygys View Post
Can i make a suggestion? First of all the maemo weekly news is hard to read for people that dont speak very good english. The words and phrases that are used are written in geek language.
Would you have a few examples of this? The people who have been writing MWKN (Jaffa and GeneralAntilles) or proponents of pretty grammar-friendly spelling. I'm not a native and have never had issues with the way things were phrased. Examples on this would definitely be appreciated. Please note, however, that the sentences written in red are quotations, and I don't believe we do any editing of those snippets.

Originally Posted by sygys View Post
Next there is almost no relevant news in the weekly update. its always about councils and promoting things. Everything in that weekly news is stuff most people allready heared a week earlier.
Fair point, but this may come from a misunderstanding of what MWKN is. MWKN is a weekly digest, which means we attempt to summarise what happened during the previous week. The target audience -- mainly but amongst others -- is a branch of people who don't have the time or energy to go through the vast array of different mediums that provide news related to Maemo (and to a lesser extent, MeeGo).

Originally Posted by sygys View Post
Post some freaking news about the PR1.2 where thousands of people are waiting for, then you can make real news. i get a feeling the weekly update is only stuffed with old news just to get it filled up every week. Thats to bad if you ask me. There must be some people over at the maemo community that know far more about the upcomming patch then they tell!
As Jinux already explained, MWKN does not aim at bringing the latest and greatest information the minute it is released. The release of PR1.2 would be one news item; and then what? One news item doesn't bring us a full edition, it springs one big burst of discussion, and then that's it.

Further even, how are we supposed to get that information? Yes, indeed, some members of the forums, and some contributors know more than they say. Some people are probably already running PR1.2 and running tests against it. Why? Because they've learnt to keep their mouth shut, and in some cases, they may even have signed NDAs. Even if we decided to publish information x or y, based on whatever we managed to get, Nokia would immediately stop sharing any kind of information with the community, and if piss them off sufficiently, MWKN would probably get a Cease and Desist within a few days.

Originally Posted by sygys View Post
There must be somekind of unofficial way to leak some of that info right?
Sure, but that kind of behaviour is not something MWKN aims to accomplish. We are not aiming at becoming Engadget. We want to help people, by offering a unified news that encapsulates the complexity of Maemo in a single source, and single medium. People can get it by email, read it on the go in their browser, and hopefully, soon, view it in high comfort in a PDF file.

Originally Posted by sygys View Post
Well im not reading the weekly updates anyway....
Then you're obviously not our targeted audience, but somehow I think we already got that from your initial reply.

Thanks for your reply though.
 

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