Solution #3: Push relevant Talk Threads to maemo.org/news
Posted on 2010-01-17 12:39 UTC by Quim Gil.

The place to follow the news of the Maemo community is http://maemo.org/news/ . There should be a way to push there the best threads as soon as they are growing. Automatically, in order to avoid manual overhead. Based on everybody's ratings, in order to avoid overhead from a busy bunch of moderators/editors. If someone wants to pick manually a thread she can always have a blog aggregated to Planet Maemo and blog at will about any activity a Talk.

If this solution is well receive then we can discuss further about the implementation details but one example of criteria to be pushed to maemo.org/news could be: threads younger than 48h with at least 10 5-star votes and an average equal or higher than 4-stars. We can always fine tune depending on whether the criteria turns out to be to restrictive or lax.

No idea about the complexity of extracting from Talk that information though. Once the threads are selected they could conform a feed that maemo.org/news would sinply aggregate. Users not interested in the rest of maemo.org/news (?) could just subscribe to that feed and be done.


Solution #4: Jaffa's proposal: Maemo Weekly News
Posted on 2010-01-17 12:48 UTC by Quim Gil.

Jaffa sent a Maemo Weekly News proposal a couple of months ago:

"A weekly news digest of key useful/informative/interesting/insightful news from all Maemo news sources. Similar in style and approach to Linux Weekly News"

See the full proposal & debate in the maemo-community mailing list.

Originally Posted by qgil

Great proposal, thanks!

I just uploaded 2 solutions discussed some time ago. Lt's see if this brainstorm proposal helps getting to a solution to this old problem.

Originally Posted by qgil

There is a large amount of people that know about Talk but only about Talk (not visiting much even the maemo.org page or http://maemo.org/news ).

There is a group of people not that significant in quantity but with a long/deep involvement in the project that, on the other hand, don't come to Talk due to several factors.

Both would benefit of having the best Talk threads going through the same process than the rest of maemo.org news. All this to say that a good summary of best thread seen only in Talk would be, in my opinion, just half of the solution.