Ask NodeOne to help consolidate the frequent, successive screencast posts

Subscribing, but will think a bit before writing more.

Thanks for starting this post.

NodeOne was founded by open source enthusiasts, myself included, and we have always cherished the idea that NodeOne should be a good citizen. With "good citizen" we mean that NodeOne must adhere to both spoken and unspoken rules of the free and open source world in general and the Drupal community in particular.

We therefore encourage employees to use part of their time to contribute in various ways. It may be answering in forums, contributing patches, developing modules, or indeed to make screencasts.

Another result of our wish to be a good citizen is that we are sensitive for others opinion and want to meet them with respect. So when Dave Reid, a respected member of the Drupal community, express concern for how we use our Drupal Planet feed, we take that seriously.

For us, our participation in the community is so important that we have created a council that supports employees and management in community matters. The council consist of heyrocker, Isabell, Itangalo, pontus_nilsson and solipsist — who all are highly respected NodeOne employees. When I saw Dave's post, I asked them for their input. They said it would be a good idea to take Dave's suggestion to heart and compress these posts. We have therefore decided to implement following policy for NodeOne's Drupal Planet feed:

• When a new screencast series begins, make an announcement post. This can describe the content that will be in the series, and it should mention that each post will not be posted to planet. Users can follow the NodeOne blog specifically if they want to get notification of each video. This post should be sent to Drupal Planet.

• Publish the videos as normal, to the NodeOne blog, but do not send these posts to Drupal Planet.

• After all the posts in the series are published, write a wrapup post that is sent to Drupal Planet. Describe everything covered, and perhaps collect discussion from comments throughout the series or other information.

• Aside from the screencast series posts, the community forum doesn't think we need to change our blogging strategy as long as we continue to post high-quality content. If we decide to post individual screencasts on other topics, we should just make sure that they are accompanied by a substantial text that supplements and complements the video content.

It is my hope that this address Dave's (and others) concerns.

Thanks for your thoughtful response, TBarregren. I appreciate all you, and the rest at nodeOne, have so generously contributed.

Although my vote doesn't hold any sway, I like Thomas' proposal. Personally, I have been waiting for the Rules series to end so that I can get it all in one chunk (although I now think it's going to be too much for one sitting), and a "Hey, we're starting..." post followed by a "Hey, we're done with..." post sounds like a good compromise. Also, that way I'd actually know when the series was done, rather than realizing it's been three weeks since I had seen one of the posts announcing the next in the series.

@Dave Reid: Thank *you*.