#241 New Fedora Slimbook 14″ joins the Fedora Slimbook 16″
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Announcing a new Slimbook model with Fedora Linux


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The following was copied from a Matrix DM conversation:

Joseph Gayoso
05:25
New Slimbook article incoming. Trying to create draft this morning
05:26
For publishing on 15:30 UTC
05:26
Tomorrow, Nov 11
Joseph Gayoso
09:05
A draft of the article is ready to go. Can you review to see what needs to be adjusted?
https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=39110&preview=1&_ppp=93b93e6e87
glb
09:21
The dimensions of the cover image are wrong. They are currently 766×309 but they need to be 1890x800. When you look at the article preview, you might notice that the image is setting off center.
Joseph Gayoso
09:23
Hmm. What tool do you recommend to crop this?
glb
09:23
I'd use GIMP.
09:24
Just as a general rule to improve readability, you should try to avoid packing too many "thoughts" into one sentence.(edited)
09:25
The first sentence is a bit complicated. "It’s been about a month since we announced the Fedora Slimbook laptop as the first step in our partnership with Slimbook to see Fedora Linux preinstalled on more devices. "(edited)
09:25
I'd suggest putting a period after that first thought. "It’s been about a month since we announced the Fedora Slimbook laptop."
09:26
Then start another thought. (e.g. "That was just the first step ....")(edited)

glb
09:44
"New Fedora Slimbook and discounts!" is missing a verb. Otherwise, this article looks OK to me. Thanks for the content. 🙂

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For the header image, I swapped out the one I was using for the one we used on the first Slimbook article. I figured it was faster to do this and it's still a nice looking banner.

For the wordy first sentence I did cut it in half as suggested.

For the last sentence about "new Fedora Slimbook and discounts," that was a hold over from when we had more to announce, so I removed it for simplicity's sake.

Any more points of feedback?

@joseph I think the article looks fine. It has been scheduled for 0800 UTC on 11 November (tomorrow, Saturday).

@rlengland can it be scheduled for 15:30 UTC tomorrow (Nov 11)? We're timing this to go up during our marketing presentation at the release party and Slimbook will also be updating their site at the same time.

@joseph Change made. Currently set for 15:30 UTC instead of 08:00

Thank you and thanks for all your help!

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Glad to be of assistance. Thanks for your contributionl

Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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