> -----Original Message----- > From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, 10 July 2011 1:09 PM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: RE: Blog Created > > Ah well. I've seen those kinds of blogs, that are essentially announcements. > So it is a notices mechanism with a syndication feed. I will have to go > look at > one of the ones that seems to get lots of hits according to the > headline/summary aggregator. Wonder if they get much by way of > comments apart from spam. > > I'm from the "Naked Conversations" school of blogging, so I may have to take > my crayons to some other place where I can ponder the fright, frustration, > and outright fun on an Apache project, the OpenOffice.org podling in > particular.
A project blog is just that, to talk about the project. Your initial blog did that, I'm not really sure what else you would expect. Gav... > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gavin McDonald [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 19:39 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Blog Created > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andy Brown [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Sunday, 10 July 2011 12:18 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Blog Created > > > > Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > > Dang! > > > > > > Well, I just jumped right in. > > > > > > So, we want the blog to be the official voice of the project in some way? > > > > > > Is that a requirement? Is that what we want? I thought that is what web > > sites are for. Blogs have a different kind of voice in my experience. > > > > > > I have lots of outlets for blogging, and I could always create an Apache- > > oriented RSS feed for aggregation, although probably not, since it doesn't > > seem like that much fun. > > > > > > Ah well, > > > > > > - Dennis > > > > I would not say "official" but at least semi-official in that it would > > show, in a > > faster way, what we are doing and how things are going with the project. I > > think what you did was a good indication of the way it should go. That is > > my > > personal opinion and I my be off base here. > > +1 > > All blogs at blogs.apache.org are official in that they talk about the > project, > they don't > wander off talking about some developers own thing etc etc... > > They can talk about releases as extra exposure - folks often subscribe to RSS > feeds > etc rather than keep looking to a website for an update. They can talk about > what's > happening currently, they can announce a new committer, a new up and > coming > feature or long awaited fix,etc etc.. > > What Dennis blogged IMO was spot on and a great start to the Apache > OpenOffice[.org] > blog. > > What Dave mentioned is also something some but not all projects do, and > not all the time - > that is to draft a blog announcement for something, then post a 'preview url' > to the (this) > dev list for opinions on changes/tweaks/etc before it goes live. That is > ideally > a tool on > improving, extending and typechecking the blog post rather than opinions to > veto it . > > HTH > > > Gav... > > > > > Andy >
