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excerpt: Moving on from time-based monthly posts to one post per subject matter
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I have made it, for 5 years I have posted the OpenPrinting News here every month, everything what happened that month and what we had planned and in front of us, and never skipped a single month.
I have made it, for [5 years I have posted the OpenPrinting News](/OpenPrinting-News-October-2024/) here every month, everything what happened that month and what we had planned and in front of us, and never skipped a single month.

In the beginning, it was not much work, Before I started I also did monthly news posts on the mailing list, I just switched to the web site back in 2019 when our current GitHub-based site went live ([First issue](/OpenPrinting-News-October-2019/)). The posts were still very short, more headlines than articles. Also [running right into the pandemic at 2020](/OpenPrinting-News-March-2020/) there were not that many events to talk about.
In the beginning, it was not much work, Before I started here I also did monthly news posts on the mailing list, I just switched to the web site back in 2019 when our current GitHub-based site went live ([First issue](/OpenPrinting-News-October-2019/)). The posts were still very short, more headlines than articles. Also [running right into the pandemic at 2020](/OpenPrinting-News-March-2020/) there were not that many events to talk about.

But with the time my write-ups about the different subject matters got longer and more in-depth, I got deeper and deeper into coordinating everything to smoothly support the [New Architecture of PPD-less all-IPP CUPS 3.x](/current/#the-new-architecture-for-printing-and-scanning), I got more GSoC contributors for OpenPrinting and they did nice monthly reports, and from 2022 on, when the pandemic ended, I attended (and organized) many conferences which I also covered here.
But with the time my write-ups about the different subject matters got longer and more in-depth ([November 2022 as example](/OpenPrinting-News-November-2022/)), I got deeper and deeper into coordinating everything to smoothly support the [New Architecture of PPD-less all-IPP CUPS 3.x](/current/#the-new-architecture-for-printing-and-scanning), I got more GSoC contributors for OpenPrinting and they did nice monthly reports, and from 2022 on, when the pandemic ended, I attended (and organized) many conferences which I also covered here.

This got exhausting, as sometimes there was a lot of work to do and not much time to squeeze in the news post, especially when being principal organizer of the Opportunity Open Source and also giving several talks there, attending the GUADEC before and a second conference in India right after, and having to do all the usual daily work ... Then having to scrape all what happened in the month together without forgetting anything, adding a nice intro, that all makes it really hard not to skip a month ...
This got exhausting, as sometimes there was a lot of work to do and not much time to squeeze in the news post, especially when being principal organizer of the [Opportunity Open Source](/OpenPrinting-News-August-2024/#opportunity-open-source-in-iit-kanpur) and also giving several talks there, attending the GUADEC before and a second conference in India right after, and having to do all the usual daily work ... Then having to scrape all what happened in the month together without forgetting anything, adding a nice intro, that all makes it really hard not to forego a month ...

This already made everything start to slip. In the beginning the news post for a given month was in the middle of that month. With the time the posts happened only at the end of the month, and this year I ended up to do them only in the following month ...

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