Many of you have signed up for the newsletter, and have probably noticed it hasn't come. I'm sure this is just because John Haller is very busy with many other things. So I'm wondering, John would you be able to assign some people to work on the newsletter so people don't continue signing up for it and not receiving it. I saw this comment which was a long time ago. I know you say things will be released within like a week or something, and sometimes don't get around to them, and I don't blame you. However, since you have a massively growing list of portable applications to keep updated, and you are also working on more, you spend hours and hours in these forums everyday, and even though you may not post a lot, I'm quite sure you are here A LOT. You keep this site updated, throw out betas like crazy, and on and on. Soo.... I think you should create a group of people to start working on a monthly newsletter, I'm sure you will get many volunteers, and this will take one more thing off your back. I will help out with it to, and we can all work on it through e-mail, IM, or IRC, or maybe sometime you can get a page up with a personal forum for the newsletter writers.
I think you should give it a chance, at least to get a format layed out, maybe have a draft worked up, and like I said, I'm sure you will get some volunteers in this thread, so please give it some thought, or at least a comment. I will admit, you are SuperJohn, but I don't know how much you can handle, and we all want you to have a break as well.
Thanks. (and all those interested, please comment)
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and I think it would be a good thing.
“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.” - Richard P. Feynman
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
take part.
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'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK
I'm not in English, and not a good designer... but I also volunteer to help...
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
but if I can help this way I'd love to do it!
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I could help. Just, not in designing :wink:.
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Let me at it- I'm not a writer, but maybe I can help in someway.
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Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
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After 18 hours, you already have 7 volunteers, all of who are regulars, which shows they have time to dedicate.
What's that note on the About Us page that says something about a Community Site?
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I'll help if i can and if i'm needed
Optimism is a moral duty - Karl R. Popper
I could have sworn that I'd mentioned this before, obviously not. Anyway, I'd be willing to take part. I vote that we make a mailing list and discuss it back and forth for the month. If you gives me permission/rights, I'll set up the mailing list and we can start.
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So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.” - Richard P. Feynman
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
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Hi guys, I haven't posted much, but I'd be willing to help out too if I can. I'm not a developer or anything, but I've been using these apps for over a year now. I originally bought my jump drive with u3 installed and deleted it b/c I love THIS design better. So, I'm all for it whenever you guys decide on it. ~jkay
I just changed my handle ~jkay
That's one tenth of one hundred!
Was my post too direct?
I'll rephrase slightly...
Gee, I wonder if the 10 people who commented on this thread could work on the newsletter for PortableApps.com, hmmm....
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of course... see you on IRC later to plannify
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If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
Hmmmm... plannify. That's a new word for me :tongue:.
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"Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong."
Theodore Roosevelt
-Please search befor
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook
I typed it all back again because I still not sure about that word... but I googled and I found it so I thought is right in English... isn't?
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If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
Ask Ryan "Mr. Speller" McCue
“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.” - Richard P. Feynman
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
It's not, but I'll look it up
I looked it up and it wasn't in there and Firefox tells me it's not.
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Ryan McCue.
Blog.
So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
email me:
mr(dot)soup12(at)gmail(dot)c-o-m
There are 10 types of people in the world.
Those who understand Binary
and Those who don't
Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world
Personally I don`t like newsletters much and don`t see much point in it.
Just post news at this site, that`s fine enough.
Don't sign up.
A lot of people don't wanna check the site regularely, or they forget to, if they choose to have the newsletter come into their inbox monthly, they'll knows if there's anything released and if it will be useful to them.
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Due to John's inaction, (:P) I've set up the mailing list. It's over at Google Groups.
http://groups.google.com/group/pa-newsletter
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Ryan McCue.
Blog.
So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
forcing us to ket Google spy on us if we wanna have the newsletter... :lol:
But anyway, Imin.
“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.” - Richard P. Feynman
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
Not you too!
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Ryan McCue.
Blog.
So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
Hey John, see that little check box on the permissions page? The one under the developers/moderators/whatever-you-called-the-group column? The one under the Simple News module? Check it for me.
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Ryan McCue.
Blog.
So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
change the title back if I were you or you might suffer the wrath of John
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'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK
It wasn't me, it was Patrick *shifty eyes*
At least then he has to read it
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Ryan McCue.
Blog.
So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
Was not! I'm telling John!
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The newsletter is starting back up (after only a single posting announcing the 1.0 release) with the 1.1 release. It will be a simple announcement in the beginning announcing the 1.1 release, some of its new features, some of the new apps in the past year and some notes about the future. Then we'll be doing once a month, probably the first Tuesday as it seems a good day to mail.
It isn't a matter of content or time, it's a matter of the SimpleMail module in Drupal being a bit less full featured than I'd like, making cleanup post-mailing a very manual process (read: extremely time consuming). I really need to use a different mailing system, but don't know of any that integrate easily with Drupal offhand.
I'm also thinking of highlighting blog posts by developers, etc.
Also, please remove the Yahoo Group as it will not be used. As a site mod, you shouldn't be encouraging people to go elsewhere to accomplish what we're trying to do here, Ryan
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
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Also, please remove the Yahoo Group as it will not be used. As a site mod, you shouldn't be encouraging people to go elsewhere to accomplish what we're trying to do here, Ryan :P
After no response from you after a few days, we didn't think we'd get a response at all.
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John, if you want a different mailing system, I can write a module for you. In case you didn't notice, I have a four (4) day weekend.
Seriously though, I can write one today if you wish. PHPList seems a good choice with the Massmailer module, but I'd prefer to hack the SimpleNews module.
Oh, and the Google Group was just to get you listening
Read my Google Talk nickname for a hint
But, I still think we should get community input on it.
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So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
Forgot to ask. You ARE still going to let us work on the Newsletter together, right?
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The only part I'll be able to help with is listing updates to portable programs.
Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with Windows.
In 3rd grade I made a newsletter for my teacher, too bad only she read it...
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