[libreoffice-website] Re: Addition of a blog in TDF planet

Le 2012-12-28 07:45, Florian Effenberger a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> Marc Paré wrote on 2012-12-05 17:24:
>
> > My suggestions is that http://planet.documentfoundation.org/ would now
> > be the official planet with the nl planets showing in the right margin.
> > Or as Cedric suggested on the FR list, a setup such as the Opensouse
> > site would also work[1], The links at the top would show the different
> > nl planets and NOT the blogs.
>
> I like the general approach, definitely. Setting up various Planets is
> not a big problem. We can re-use the template if needed, and just adjust
> the Planet's configuration file, to reflect the localized content. It is
> even possible, with some work from the infra team, that the local teams
> can adjust their content themselves, i.e. edit the configuration file
> Planet uses. For the beginning, it's probably best if I manage the
> configuration files, until we have some decent web interface. The
> current setup requires editing of the configuration via SSH.
>
> > However, I do have some comments about the effectiveness of that site
> > which I explained on the FR discuss list. In particular, if we were to
> > follow such a model, I would suggest:
> >
> > * links at the top would be nl planets
> > * link names would all be localised
> > * there would be a link to the EN planet
>
> This sounds sensible to me.
>
> > * all articles showing on the landing page would be those of official
> > TDF/LibreOffice news (no EN blogs other than an Official TDF blog would
> > show on this landing page)
>
> Does this mean you want to have two English blog pages, like one
> official, and one nonofficial? I am not sure if this makes sense. The
> official English feed is the TDF blog, and so I think the landing page
> should contain all English blogs, including the TDF one, but not
> exclusively the TDF one.

I was hoping that we could manage an EN blog to allow the EN community 
to grow. At this point, there is simply no growth in the EN community. 
The outcome would still be the same if we did this, there would be the 
official TDF blog and then the EN community blog. This would put the EN 
community at the same level playing field as all other communities and 
put into the EN community's hands the management of their own blog. We 
need to give the EN community a chance to work on an identity and to 
accept more responsibility for blog contributions.

It may take a while to organize the EN community as, at the moment, 
there is no set structure to it. This will help it organize and group 
the many countries that fit into this group[1]. There are quite a few 
and this may be just the right opportunity for them to organize themselves.

> > * offer registrations offering members the option of picking favourites
> > (nl planets), permitting them to see only the planets of their choice
> > once logged in (allow members to be logged in over an extended 7 days to
> > promote regular visits to the site)
>
> The current software we use, Planet, does not allow for that. I am not
> sure if there is a software offering that, and I am not sure if that
> makes sense. Anyone who'd like to have their own compilation of blogs
> can use a feed reader of Google reader anyways. Maybe we can hint at
> such a solution, instead of investing time in reinventing the wheel?

Sure, no problem with this. This was more of a wish to see blog readers 
to re-visit the site(s). The feeds are good, but does not get readers 
back to our pages.

> > * IMO, we should eventually work towards a "one TDF login does all" for
> > all of our sites. This will allow us another metric for marketing
> > purposes -- even better as these members would be more engaged members.
>
> This is one of the long-term goals the infra team has. Unfortunately, it
> is not quite easy to achieve, we have been discussing and researching on
> this for quite some months now. It is on the todo, but I don't expect it
> to happen short-term, it requires lots of development on our own, and
> makes installing new tools more complicated, since the approaches in
> single sign-on (OpenID, LDAP, whatever) is different or even totally
> lacking.

Sure, I know that this is a wishlist on many lists. It does seem to be 
complicated to put into place. Will the new infrastructure move help 
with this?

> Florian

Marc

[1] 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_where_English_is_an_official_language

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