[wx-dev] wxBlog?

[Mart Raudsepp]

On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 21:19 +0200, Robert Roebling wrote:
> > > 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.

Note that these multi-user set-ups are widely deployed with a
possibility to join for free.

Some of the popular ones include

LiveJournal.com
blogger.com
wordpress.com
advogato.org

They all provide feeds (but some not categories to be able to get only a
wx specific category feed) that can be aggregated to a simple planet.

> > 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. 

Do you mean everyone posts to the same user, or?
Also, me already having a categorized blog means that I will not want to
spend my time posting to two different places. That's where a
"planet" (which can co-exist together with a b2evolution or wordpress
setup to provide a place for other devs to post to) would come in.

I believe Jorgen Bodde from the forums fame had already some blog kind
of thing as well for wx.

> Can anyone host a WordPress blog for us? 
> 
>   Robert

  Mart