Can't it be both? Provide a blogging service for devs that don't have one and aggregate developer blog hosted elsewhere. Developers that already have blogs might want to keep them, and also blog about non-blender related things (code.blender.org could then only agreggate blog post related to blender development).
/gustav On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 19:48, Alex Combas <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Bassam Kurdali <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > as an alternative, you could consider an aggregator, like what > > jesterking made in planetblender, or planet.gnome.org, etc. > > > > > We already have two nearly identical aggregators (blendernation.com and > planetblender.org), what value > would creating a third aggregator bring the community? Nearly none in my > opinion. > > I'm not affiliated with blendernation.com or planetblender.org in anyway, > so > do not think I am trying to discourage > competition or protect them, I just honestly do not see the value in a > third > aggregator. > > I think what Ton has proposed for code.blender.org is a great idea. > > As Ton said, he would not force people to use it so if developers already > have their own blogs then they > would be free to continue to publish to their own blogs if they want. > > What Ton proposes would actually add value by encouraging developers who > are > not blogging > to give it a try, and also to encourage developers with low traffic blogs > to > move a more > mainstream blogging channel and thus get more exposure. > > As someone just starting to look into blender development, but who has been > following the > blender community for a long while, I'm really happy to hear this > announcement. > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
