On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 12:03 -0500, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
Hi all,
Over the break, someone made the suggestion that we might want to consider setting up a Laconica server for openSUSE members / contributors.
Any thoughts? I know that many people on the list are already using Twitter / Identi.ca. We really need to encourage as much blogging / online activity around openSUSE as possible, and it seems to me that we *might* be able to encourage openSUSE contributors to do something under 140 characters where we have trouble convincing them to post longer blogs.
Thoughts?
Best,
Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb@zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://blogs.zdnet.com/community/
Hmmm, this sounds familiar :D I spoke to the author of laconi.ca a while ago about the possibility of migrating current users of identi.ca to an "own" instance of laconi.ca (For those that don't know, laconi.ca is the software that powers identi.ca); and it is possible, potentially some fiddling but nothing too strenuous. The one issue i see with doing this is that users of current services are most likely to be resistive to migrating due to the hassle that this entails. I'm all for it, but I'm just playing devil's advocate. Many people are already comfy with the likes of Twitter etc, and will need a solid reason as to why they should migrate. One advantage we do have is that there are a multitude of clients that enable one to send messages to multiple services at the same time, although I only know of Gwibber which can send to an "own" instance of laconi.ca. Hopefully it won't be too hard a sell. I'm sure we could ask Riggwelter if he could setup a microblogging aggregate as part of planetsuse, maybe /moon or /micro. This would certainly be the quickest option and one with the least impact. Although this will require a list collating in advance. Both having the posts aggregated and having our own service will enable indexing by all the search engines. My preference is for our own service, but we have to take into account the maintenance of the server (mostly software side of things) and this is the resource that is potentially hard to come by. Regards, Andy -- Andrew Wafaa, openSUSE Member: FunkyPenguin. openSUSE: Get It, Discover It, Create It at http://www.opensuse.org awafaa@opensuse.org | http://www.wafaa.eu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org