Concerning the blog, I think I wrote something like the first post on that blog, and I did some curation also. I agree Roller is not friendly for either of those activities. [I just confirmed that I am still an editor and I just now curated many comments on recent posts that had never been moderated onto the blog. There is an amazing amount of junk comments too. If you need someone to do this on a scheduled basis, I can take that on. I do allow off-topic but legitimate comments, because that is sometimes the only way of learning about some questions and concerns. Of course, any editor can go in and alter the moderations.]
I did discover that I could use Windows Live Writer to produce posts, but there were some mystery steps to get them to move through the workflow. Moving to WordPress.com would probably be useful simply because it removes friction and there is extensive support (and, although not observed when logged in as the author, there are ads presented to public readers of the blog posts on wordpress.com). There are many ways to make WordPress posts. There are some meta-issues, partly having to do with blogs not being wikis (editable with histories or something else equivalent to source-control). First, there is the creation of accounts and how that will work with multiple editors and authors. And the serious need to curate comments and get rid of spam. That will become someone's duty. The WordPress notifications about spam and new comments seem to be more efficient, but they have to go somewhere. I suppose it could be to a mailing list shared by the editors. Second, and perhaps what was most daunting in my case, is that spontaneous blog authoring is not the model. The AOO blog needs to be written in the voice of the project, whatever that is, and that is behind the usual procedure of posting drafts, allowing edits, and even using some form of consensus for posts to move forward toward publication. My initial distaste for that had to do with some difficulties with what occurred for me as too autocratic in early podling life as well as inexperience with AOO collegiality, namely trusting others not to hack up my efforts. My outlet was to have my own blog (which I have may of anyhow) and an automatic link by one post tag into the Committers Planet, which picks posts out of my RSS feeds. On the other hand, I am now more comfortable with community edits, whether of posts or progress reports, although I do neither at the moment [;<). So there is need for an inviting workflow that does not put too much friction in the way of potential contributors, many of whom may be wary of correction and discouraging reception. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2014 11:31 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Cc: infrastruct...@apache.org Subject: OpenOffice and Infrastructure: ApacheCon meeting [ ... ] 9) Blog Roller is not nice or user-friendly for editors, and it is not linked to Apache accounts so one has to create a separate account for it anyway. If this move can increase participation, OpenOffice is free to move to Wordpress (preferably a hosted version on wordpress.com) and have blog.openoffice.org created and redirected to it (the current URL is https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/ ). Next action: OpenOffice dev list to assess whether a different setup can increase the (currently very scarce, and limited to Andrea in the last 6 months) blogging activity in the project. [ ... ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
