@avocadoom did some hard work on good practices and code quality on our website, as well as addressing the banner topic. He is continuing the work
regarding how we display the information on the webpage: In general, we should consider the amount of information we present and how to curate it more effectively. We discussed the potential rework of the landing page
we probably do not have the capacity to manage a newsletter at the moment, so we decided to move the newsletter link from the footer and post larger updates (monthly) in the news section
NixCon organizers will receive webmaster assistance from us. @idabzo will coordinate the flow of this collaboration
@idabzo will coordinate with the individuals who have the appropriate permissions to merge changes on the webpage, ensuring more curated and controlled updates to the site
At Ocean Sprint we had at least two people ready to put in the work for reviving the newsletter (@sergekand @mschwaig IIRC, also @a-kenji who wanted to help run team reports). Maybe this is worth getting in touch about.
If you decide to delete the entry for the meantime anyways, I‘d appreciate it if you redirect this to a (non-navigable if you wish, or maybe something akin to release notes, could even simply be a blog post with recent changes) page that explains why that entry is removed and what to do about it if you care. Almost surely there are links or search results that will break if you don’t. Keeping a history of developments is really valuable for beginners and not that much effort if done incrementally.
I’d also like to revive a newsletter, also discussed it with @a-kenji at PlanetNix and @zimbatm at CfgMgmtCamp. We’re still in the board transition right now, but that’s something I’d like to put a focus on once we’re established and know our budget. Imo this is very worth investing into with a paid position, because we’re really lacking proper distribution of information right now, and all previous volunteer efforts died out again after some time.
I’m bookmarking that @mschwaig and @SergeK are also interested in it and will follow up on this when ready.
Yay! Having help with the content would be fantastic—thanks for the insight, Valentin!
The challenge with keeping the newsletter link in the footer is that it currently leads to an outdated page with issues from 2021 (https://weekly.nixos.org). It doesn’t even include the Nix Monthly newsletters I’ve been publishing in 2023 and 2024. That makes it a confusing resource, especially for newcomers.
Instead of linking to outdated content, we’d prefer to highlight our blog section (Blog | Nix & NixOS), which already serves as a hub for news, blog posts, and community stories. That way, we ensure that what’s visible on the site is fresh and relevant.
That said, I completely agree that keeping a historical record is valuable. If there’s a good way to preserve past updates while keeping navigation intuitive, I’d love to explore that!
I completely agree that we’re lacking proper distribution of updates, and I’d love to change that as soon as possible.
Honestly, I’m pleasantly surprised by how many people feel the impact of not having a well-curated and regularly distributed source for community updates. This only reinforces how important this effort is!
Thanks so much for elaborating on this topic—I really appreciate the discussion.
cc @zimbatm , who also provided awesome input via direct messages.
Sorry, I did not say that I am interested in helping to run the newsletter. I think you must be mixing up something, @fricklerhandwerk .
The part of that discussion that I remember being involved in was about the Nix Academy Newsletter, and if there might be a practical way to have that effort also feed into nixos.org as the official newsletter, with compensation in the form of retaining some ability to use it as a marketing tool for Nix Academy.
I assume it’s ok for me to bring this idea up here, but please be aware that was just me putting that idea out there, without knowing the people involved or thinking about it too much.