Cross-posting to devel, as I believe there are other people and projects around blogging/wiki on the XO/XS.
On Mar 28, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) wrote: > Hi Martin, > > Great advice, thanks! > > We're not tied to Google blogger at all. Just want to have an > option to > shout out to the world, somewhere. That looks like a winning design > with > minimal effort. > > Thanks, > > Greg S > > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Langhoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 4:15 PM > To: Greg Smith (gregmsmi) > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Reg: Google summer of Code under OLPC > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In short the kids want to blog! I think we all need to hear their >> voices too. > > Hi Greg! > > I sure want to support blogging. My concern is the blogger tie-in. A > simple suggestion - make the "upstream" blogging action pluggable. > > What I'd suggest - in very brief terms - is > > - blog on the XS (WP is ok, as would be Drupal, but do consider > Moodle's blog facility, or the new 'oubog' moodle module) > - the blog on the XS can have an option "publish to the world"... > - which uses a simple pluggable mechanism to publish out... > > the basic pluggable module needs to have 1 function/method: post blog > entry :-) (which returns the url of the blog entry on success?). In > practice you might need a few more, for example a "register account" > method if it can be automated... > > With that generic machinery in place, if provide a blogger.com plugin, > that's great. Ideally I'd like to see other plugins that can be > pointed > to a standalone WP install on the internet, so a local education > authority could run it. > > Just don't make it _tied_ to blogger.com -- which is a commercial, add > supported service. There are good blog APIs so you don't actually need > to - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaWeblog > > cheers, > > > > martin > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel