"Benji Weber" <b.weber@warwick.ac.uk> writes:
On 26/02/2008, Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> wrote:
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.
I know it's not difficult but it would lower the barrier for starters since some feel that it's difficult. It also could help to get topic wise more information together and create initially more visibility for a blog.
Also I see a danger of competing with planetsuse.
I suggest to aggregate on 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?
That looks like an interesting alternative.
Have you already discussed this with James Ogley?
No, I haven't. I wanted to discuss it directly here. Hope James is subscribed. :-)
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.
Yes, that's also a problem and this would help. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126