On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 11:20 -0800, ext Shaver, Michael R wrote: > http://planet.meego.com > My thoughts are that the existing implementation of the > http://news.meego.com site is actually a planet of aggregated posts, whether > they are blogs, news, or twitter items. Calling it "MeeGo Planet" gives it a > unique space within the meego.com infrastructure and better describes what > it is. Here is what I would suggest for changes: > > - rename subdomain to http://planet.meego.com > - remove subdomain http://news.meego.com > - keep top level page as is with the promoted items highlighted (don't call > it news in any way though) > - keep blogs link with all blogs listed
Agree until here. > - add twitter and events links > - clean up display a bit to show shorter posts and indicate type of post > (blog, twitter, event) I can mock up sample here. Looking forward to the mockup, thanks! But I think blogs, tweets and news should be clearly separated. > http://meego.com/community/blogs > Although we probably need to look at the criteria for blog inclusion, in > general this is working fine. Mainly what we'll need to do is have this blog > feed included on the planet.meego.com site aggregation. Once we do that we > could also provide a link on each entry to vote for these posts on the > planet as well. > > http://meego.com/aggregator > I think the planet.meego.com site should effectively replace this. We can > transfer all aggregated blogs to the planet at this point and remove all > aggregation on meego.com. Good. > > http://meego.com (Home Page) > If the changes above take place, we now have > http://meego.com/community/blogs and http://planet.meego.com as our primary > sources of news. Of course that doesn't take into account forum.meego.com, > or mailing list posts. I'm not sure including the mailing list posts on the > home page is worth it, but including some type of active conversations from > the forum might be worth it. Agreed. I even think Reggie or someone mentioned at some point that there was a possibility to show not simply the most recent but even the "most relevant now" based on some algorithms. > Here are some of the requirements we'll need to keep in mind when looking at > exactly what to promote to the meego.com home page: > > - need to retain a promoted post that is controlled by moderators, editors, > admins. > - can replace the MeeGo Planet items with promoted items from the planet. > - do we keep the existing blog posts from meego.com also??? Yes to point 1 and 2. I don't see a reason to separate blog posts hosted at meego.com from the rest, though. At the end what we have is: one optional sticky post promoted manually by the Media team + several posts promoted automatically through community rating. Plus a view to the tweets, a view to the Forum and a view to the Calendar. > Although the meego.com home page has served well over the last 9 months, > it's also time to start looking at ways of making it better. Quim will be > leading up this effort so we'll get a chance to look at the overall > structure a bit as well as the blog and planet items. Yes, more about this hopefully tomorrow. -- Quim _______________________________________________ MeeGo-community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community
