[wx-dev] wxBlog?

[Robert Roebling]

Mart Raudsepp wrote:


> > I wonder if we should have blog or something similar.
> 
> Funny that we had a similar discussion on IRC just yesterday between me,
> Kevin Ollivier and Bryan Petty. Though it was more in the nature of
> "isn't it weird speaking to an unknown audience while blogging
> anything?" and "There would probably be quite some readers if there were
> a wx development related category".

That is what I thought, too.

> > The news section on the homepage is more for formal
> > annoucements and hardly used, the mailing lists can
> > not be read by everyone and are, by nature, not
> > organized. A place, where people could *easily* post
> > things about current development might be useful to
> > fill the gap. I have little idea about the different
> > blog systems, but I'd like to see something where one
> > could easily write a comment and post a screenshot.
>
> Now from the technical point of view, there are various ways
> of setting things up. There are simple blog engines like the
> popular wordpress one.

I assume that wordpress can be used online (I mean you
add articles over a web interface) and it then displays
the items one by one. That is what I want (if it allows
to add screenshots easily).

> There are the planets, which simply aggregate certain feeds
> together into one page and a planet RSS feed.

Although the idea is interesting, not so many people
have their own feed and I'm actually surprised to see
that there are already wxWidgets related blogs - at
least the fact that I didn't even know about them
may indicate a PR problem.

> For me personally the ideal solution would be a planet that
> would just fetch the wxWidgets category feed that I already
> have in my blog[1], together with other developers. 

Once again, this would require that everyone has his own
blog already or creates one for that purpose. This isn't
likely to happen, although it surely is possible.

> It probably all depends on how other interested developers
> want to do this, and what resources we can use.

I assume we can get the resources to create a WordPress
"server" somewhere. I slightly favor a variant where
not every developer would need to creates his/her own
blog, but single central blog for all developers. 

Can anyone host a WordPress blog for us? 

  Robert