[wx-dev] wxBlog?

[Kevin Ollivier]

Hi Mart, Robert,

On Sep 3, 2006, at 12:34 PM, Mart Raudsepp wrote:

> 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.

I think, as a community, we really are not that vocal for whatever  
reason. I do agree blogs would be one way to improve that, and am  
open to suggestions as to other ways as well.

>>> 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.

I'd prefer to go this route. We could probably setup a blogging tool  
via SF, but when problems occur it may take some time to resolve, and  
moreover SF is very restrictive in what it allows so I have a feeling  
our choice of blog software might be limited more by what SF allows  
rather than what we want. If someone's willing to setup/maintain this  
blogging software, then I'm fine with that, but otherwise I think we  
need to try and keep maintenance to a bare minimum.

A blog aggregator IMHO should be our first step anyways, because in  
addition to developer blogs, we can also have news about third-party  
wx projects posted this way too, among other things. (All SF projects  
get an RSS feed of their news that we could pull from.) I think it  
would help open peoples' eyes to all the work that's going on  
regarding wx.

Does anyone know what good blog aggregation tools there are out  
there? Preferably one that would allow us to wrap it in the  
wxwidgets.org site design.

Regards,

Kevin

>>> 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
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: wx-dev-unsubscribe at lists.wxwidgets.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: wx-dev-help at lists.wxwidgets.org
>