OK, so after a minor off-line chat with ant I think the nice URL from blogger makes me think +1 for blogger over airset. If everyone else is happy the last thing we need to do is express preferences over the URL for the blog. As ant mentioned, its in the form of
http://<whatever-you-choose>.blogspot.com/ so long as whatever-you-choose is not already in use of course. BTW "tuscany" is not available. We have a placeholder on "tuscanysca", but can change this. Any comments? In the absence of any strong feelings being expressed in the near term we'll go with "tuscanysca". Once this is decided we can send out invitations to join blogger so that you can post. Kelvin. On 6/9/06, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Turns out blogger also supports team blogs: http://help.blogger.com/bin/topic.py?topic=20 The main reason blogger may be better is you can choose a nicer URL to the blog: whateveryouwant.blogspot.com ...ant On 6/9/06, kelvin goodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had an IRC chat and netmeeting session with ant, and have set up a test > blog using airset. It has some limitations on the aesthetic side, but > seems > to have all the features we want from a technical perspective. Take a > look > at the publically visible URLs ... > > web interface ... > http://www.airset.com/Public/Blogs.jsp?id=3336 > > RSS feed > http://www.airset.com/syndicate/public/3336/blog.xml > > > If we go with this I'll collect the email addresses you'd like to use for > this and send you all invitations to join the group. > > There are various levels of access control I can give out including ..... > > Project Leader -> Full control of blog > Team Member -> Read/Write > > + the public URLs > > Let me know what you think. > > Cheers, Kelvin. > > > On 6/9/06, kelvin goodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > +1 for group blogging from me. I feel sure there will be times when joy > or > > despair will motivate me to blog to somewhere other than /dev/null which > has > > been my only option to date. I'm not sure if it will fit the bill, but > > I've been setting up groups with airset.com recently (primarily for > shared > > calendars), and it has lots of access control facilities for group > members, > > and the ability to blog and provide RSS feeds. > > > > Regards, Kelvin. > > > > > > On 6/9/06, Simon Laws < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Ant > > > > > > Happy to contribute. I think the uname/password will be problematic if > > > you > > > intend to distribute it and this is intended to be the blog voice of > > > tuscany. Maybe it needs to stay a committer thing, or even have one > > > person > > > manage posts, and use the mail list as a submission vehicle for > others? > > > > > > Alternatively we need to find some hosted community blogging service > > > (although I did a quick google and didn't find anything obvious - was > > > just a > > > quick look though) or set up our own (would need some hosted LAMP > > > service) > > > and hand out unames/passwords as required. > > > > > > b.t.w jroller gave me an error saying they are not accepting new > users. > > > So > > > blogger (i think blogspot is part of google also) vs bloglines? > > > > > > S > > > > > > On 6/8/06, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > > > > > How about setting up a blog for the Tuscany project? We could use it > > > to > > > > publicize interesting events for all the different Tuscany sub > > > projects - > > > > new releases, use of Tuscany by another another project/company, > > > upcoming > > > > conference talks or slides from presentations, new spec release etc. > > > > > > > > Other projects do this, for example the Dojo project has one at: > > > > http://blog.dojotoolkit.org/ > > > > > > > > I think I could sometimes find interesting things to comment on from > > > the > > > > Java SCA perspective, but to be successful there would need to be > more > > > > > > > frequent posts, so buy in from others involved in Tuscany to make > sure > > > > there > > > > are regular topical posts - would others be willing to participate? > > > > > > > > If so, the next question is how to do this. There's various free > blog > > > > sites, > > > > http://www.jroller.com/ , although thats specifically Java so may not > > > fit > > > > our > > > > multi-language nature so http://www.bloglines.com/ maybe better, I > > > know > > > > some > > > > other Apache WS people use that. Any other suggestions or which blog > > > host > > > > to > > > > use? Then there's how to administer the blog userid and password, i > > > guess > > > > the obvious thing is to share that with every Tuscany committer so > all > > > the > > > > committers can post when ever they want, although there are other > > > Tuscany > > > > users and contributors who may want to post so should we consider > > > > distributing the uid/pswd more widely? > > > > > > > > ...ant > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Best Regards > > Kelvin Goodson > > > > > > -- > Best Regards > Kelvin Goodson > >
-- Best Regards Kelvin Goodson
