On 26/02/2008, Andreas Jaeger
Idea:
To lower the barrier for developers to share information (and setting up their own blog at a free hoster), let's create a blog (proposed name see below - for this text "the site") that everybody somehow involved with openSUSE (both external community members and Novell employees - this should be available for all formal "openSUSE members" ) could get an account for sharing technical aspects of the developers work. We should create several categories or tags initially, e.g. YaST, and ask that every blog entry is part of at least one category so that e.g. all YaST blogs can be read together. It should be easy for developers to add tags/categories to their posts.
I'm not sure setting up a blog is difficult, there are numerous providers of free blog hosting, some of which require little more than a could of clicks from google to have a blog. Also many people will already have their own blogs and may not want to bother deciding where to post things. Also I see a danger of competing with planetsuse. Would it not be better to simply syndicate members' blogs which are tagged or categorised with a certain string. The blog tags are normally included in the RSS feed. Perhaps it would be possible to implement it as http://planetsuse.org/tagname which only shows blogs of that tag, and then create an alias on *.opensuse.org which proxies it? Have you already discussed this with James Ogley? It generally seems like a good idea, some people do complain and not subscribe to planetsuse due to the ratio between on topic and off topic posts there. -- Benjamin Weber --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org