I went in to re-organize the blog categories and of course found that
my tidy little plan was less of a good idea in reality than it had
been in theory!
Below is what I actually did (a categorization scheme that is more
tailored to the actual content that's on the blog). It was perhaps
not the best use of my time, but it crystallized for me, the
different blog audiences we have. Basically, I think having a
clearer, shared understanding of what the categories mean will also
help us (me at least!) write more targeted blog posts.
The categories are also handy for directing people to more targeted
information. For example, Sheila and I are linking to the Chandler
Project and Chandler Product News categories from the Planning Wiki
because these 2 blog categories have a pretty steady stream of
relevant Planning-related announcements and not much else. I've
already used the How I Use Chandler and Product Design categories in
this way a number of times in blog posts and when introducing the
project to people outside of OSAF.
The categories aren't perfect. Almost everything is relevant to
either Chandler Server Development, Chandler Desktop Development or
OSAF :) But I figure, people who are interested in the project at
that level, will be following the blog as a whole, so I wasn't too
anal about double filing everything into those 3 categories.
I think what's more important is keeping Chandler Project, Chandler
Product News, How I Use Chandler and Product Design relatively clean
so that we can point to those categories when we need to direct
people's attention to high-level or end-user specific content.
Pipe up if you have any questions / concerns. Probably not worth
everyone putting energy into this ;)
(I wish I could re-order the categories in the left-nav so they made
more sense but the categories seems to be stuck in the order they
were created. Sacre bleu!)
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1. Chandler Project - Sheila's high-level monthly project status.
Announcements about planning and direction. Important milestones
(e.g. Preview Release, 0.7.5 Release, Dojo 1.0 Hub/Server upgrade).
2. Chandler Product News - For Chandler Users. Important new
features, release announcement, important service announcements / news.
3. How I Use Chandler - User stories, user surveys
4. Hub Service - Hub Service announcements, Hub Service planning and
direction.
5. Product Design - Product design, target user discussions, user
survey results
6. Chandler Desktop Development
- chandlerdb
- PyLucene
7. Chandler Server Development
- Windmill
8. OSAF - Organizational news. (Hiring, being "open source",
organizational changes.)
- Community - Hiring, interns, Summer of Code, discussions about
community, announcements about our community (e.g. new Users List).
- Public Events - Conference trip reports, announcements of where
we'll be presenting
9. In the News - Press / high-profile blog mentions of Chandler (e.g.
eWeek, Scoble, Lifehacker)
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