+1 On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 at 17:02, Gabriel Beims Bräscher <gabr...@apache.org> wrote:
> +1 > > Investing in marketing, documentation, and usability is as important as > stability and code quality. > This looks like a good step in making it easier to share content for users > and devs while also improving the project marketability. > > Best regards, > Gabriel > > Em seg., 26 de abr. de 2021 às 11:11, Giles Sirett < > giles.sir...@shapeblue.com> escreveu: > >> +1 >> >> >> >> Kind regards >> >> Giles >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* Sunando Bhattacharya <suna...@indiqus.com> >> *Sent:* 26 April 2021 10:26 >> *To:* marketing@cloudstack.apache.org >> *Cc:* us...@cloudstack.apache.org >> *Subject:* Re: Uploading Blog Post >> >> >> >> my 2 cents... we really need to have a more "content friendly" platform >> for cloudstack where we can easily populate content that is current and >> relevant. Hosting on WordPress or Webflow really would make life easy for >> content managers. This will also enable us to attract more users to the >> community and grow it. >> >> >> Best, >> >> >> >> Sunando >> >> www.indiqus.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 2:22 PM Giles Sirett <giles.sir...@shapeblue.com> >> wrote: >> >> [discuss] >> I would be fully supportive of this - as Andrija says: we should have >> done this years ago. In fact, we have had this discussion a number of >> times over the years. For example [1] >> >> Every time its raised, most people seem to be +1 on having a site that >> can be easily maintained/ managed with tools that are familiar with the >> more marketing focussed people in our community (i.e. some sort of CMS) . >> However, every time, the initiative has fizzled out because of the "belief" >> that top level project websites HAVE to be hosted on Apache infra and have >> to be static HTML. We then get into long discussions about everybody's >> favourite types of HTML generator tools - most of which immediately >> switch off folks like Ivet - who (without putting words into their mouths) >> just want a wordpress/jupal/etc site that is easy to manage & update >> >> I spoke to some of the infra guys at Apachecon NA 2019. They seemed >> informally open to the idea of a project hosting their website on something >> like wordpress.com. They referred me to a legal discussion that theyd >> had [2]. Which, in summary, says - yes, you can use a 3rd party to host a >> site and it doesn’t have to be static HTML. >> >> AFAIK, I don’t think that ever became policy, but the key message is, as >> long as certain requirements are met there seems (or rather seemed at the >> time) to be no problem with doing this >> >> So, the question needs to be: as long as the details can be figured, and >> infra/policy allows it, is there any remaining objection to rebuilding our >> website on something like wordpress ? >> >> If there is no strong objection here, I'd be happy to reach out to infra >> to check that their thoughts from 2 years ago remain the same and what >> is/is not OK >> >> I think that they'd want to see a vote from this community - but lets >> see the art of the possible first. >> >> >> Thoughts ? >> >> >> >> Kind regards >> Giles >> >> giles.sir...@shapeblue.com >> www.shapeblue.com >> 3 London Bridge Street, 3rd floor, News Building, London SE1 9SGUK >> @shapeblue >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Andrija Panic <andrija.pa...@gmail.com> >> Sent: 25 April 2021 22:04 >> To: Apache CloudStack Marketing <marketing@cloudstack.apache.org> >> Cc: us...@cloudstack.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Uploading Blog Post >> >> +1, but.. >> >> If that would be that easily doable, we should surely migrate ages ago - >> there are certain limits from the ASF itself, I don't know all the details >> - but it's the same story for the main web site - old, ugly, unfriendly - >> make's you want to avoid it... but, there you go... it's always good to try >> to move forward. >> >> >> On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 at 12:12, Ivet Petrova <ivet.petr...@shapeblue.com> >> wrote: >> >> > Perhaps one good idea is migrating the blog to WordPress. >> > It is easy to use and operate and supports different levels of access. >> > PMC members can be administrators, and there can be just Authors and >> > Editors in addition. >> > >> > Kind regards, >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On 23 Apr 2021, at 12:57, Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > FYI - published on behalf of Ivet here: >> > https://blogs.apache.org/cloudstack/entry/meet-the-community-gabriel-b >> > rascher as only committers are allowed access to publish on the Apache >> > CloudStack blog (something that could be discussed and fixed in >> > future). >> > >> > Regards. >> > >> > >> > ________________________________ >> > From: Ivet Petrova <ivet.petr...@shapeblue.com> >> > Sent: Monday, April 19, 2021 12:09 >> > To: us...@cloudstack.apache.org <us...@cloudstack.apache.org> >> > Cc: marketing@cloudstack.apache.org <marketing@cloudstack.apache.org> >> > Subject: Re: Uploading Blog Post >> > >> > Hello again and Happy Monday Everyone, >> > >> > Once again - can somebody give me some guidance on this? >> > >> > Kind regards, >> > >> > >> > ivet.petr...@shapeblue.com >> > www.shapeblue.com<http://www.shapeblue.com> >> > 3 London Bridge Street, 3rd floor, News Building, London SE1 9SGUK >> > @shapeblue >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com >> > www.shapeblue.com >> > 3 London Bridge Street, 3rd floor, News Building, London SE1 9SGUK >> > @shapeblue >> > >> > >> > >> > On 9 Apr 2021, at 12:48, Ivet Petrova <ivet.petr...@shapeblue.com >> <mailto: >> > ivet.petr...@shapeblue.com>> wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > Can somebody help me on how a new blog posts can be uploaded on the >> > CloudStack blog? >> > Is there any backend which is used, or only code? >> > >> > Thanks a lot on advance! >> > >> > Kind regards, >> > >> > >> > ivet.petr...@shapeblue.com<mailto:ivet.petr...@shapeblue.com> >> > www.shapeblue.com<http://www.shapeblue.com> >> > 3 London Bridge Street, 3rd floor, News Building, London SE1 9SGUK >> > @shapeblue >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> -- >> >> Andrija Panić >> >> > > -- > Gabriel Beims Bräscher > Apache CloudStack PMC Chair (CloudStack VP) > The Apache Software Foundation > https://www.apache.org/ > https://cloudstack.apache.org/ > -- Andrija Panić
