On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > Dang! > > Well, I just jumped right in. > > So, we want the blog to be the official voice of the project in some way? >
I think it will be seen that way by the reader, certainly. > 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 thought your post was very nice and had the right tone. But I think we should try for the 3 day RTC in the future. Unlike a commit to the web site, we cannot easily revert a blog post, especially once it is syndicated and has been copied by various aggregators. > 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. > There is already: http://planet.apache.org/ That includes a committers aggregator as well as a project aggregator. I run planet.opendocumentformat.org, and I can include our new AOOo blog. There is also Planet OpenOffice.org: http://planet.services.openoffice.org/ Who maintains that? > Ah well, > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Fisher [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 15:39 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Blog Created > > Gavin, Thanks! > > There is a page that describes how to prepare and preview a blog post. [1] > > Authors should read this and begin to put together our announcement. > > The page states "A typical process is to create the blog post, set it up to > publish in 3-4 days via the "Advanced Settings", then post the modified > preview URL to your dev@ list with the anticipated publish date for lazy > consensus." > > [1] http://www.apache.org/dev/blogs.html > > Regards, > Dave > > On Jul 9, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Gavin McDonald wrote: > >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Gavin McDonald [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Saturday, 9 July 2011 8:07 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Blog Created >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/ >>> >>> Currently I have invited: >>> >>> Dave and Andy as Admins >>> Dennis as Author >>> >> >> Also I have now added some more: >> >> khirano, rbircher, robweir, clippka >> >> All as Authors. >> >> (Note to Rob, no specific 'Editor' role but the Author role >> will allow you to edit and tweak other posts.) >> >> and to continue ... >> >>> Anyone else wants an account please let me know. >>> (And let me know your Apache ID too as I'll send the invite to your >> Apache >>> Address.) >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Gav... >>> >> >> > >
