I have no time to spend reading over a blog, as I get to many emails (BTY not a complaint, just an observation) LOL. I subscribe to the Ubuntu LoCo email list, so I don't have to check a blog-site, emails just automatically keep flowing inwards - how sweet is that?
If you all do decide on a blog, I'll agree with Benjamin; "find a free sponsor", because it's going to cost money and time. I suggest WordPress, because it's widely used, therefore it'll be easier to find a member, who is both competent at WP, and has the time. Phil. N /*********************************** * Sent from my Commodore 64 * ***********************************/ On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 4:09 PM, James Bradley <[email protected]> wrote: > Having recently moved our local paddling group's web stuff to a > wordpress.com site, I can say it's really pretty painless. I had been > hosting the group's materials on my old commercial site, but am letting > that go at the end of the year. One advantage of Automattic's > wordpress.com service is that they do all the updates for you. The > disadvantages accrue more to commercial sites than to a simple blog or > non-commercial site. Among the disadvantages are an "entity.wordpress.com" > URL, no choice of plugins, and no ability to modify the underlying PHP > code. The big advantage is, of course, "free is a very good price." > WordPress software also has a pretty good range tools for maintaining > contributor accounts, eliminating spam, etc. > > For reference, the site I'm referring to is > http://currentreading.wordpress.com/ The only page that was a pain to > build was the River Conditions page, but along the way I learned some > tricks to simplify the process. I only started the conversion a couple > weeks ago, so it isn't quite feature complete, yet. You might want to note > that the Paddle Trip FAQ and Participantship pages are just MS Office HTML > output, cut and pasted into a WP page, (there is plenty of extraneous crap > in the code, but it's effortless to produce and displays okay). I imagine > LibreOffice output would fare at least as well. Personally, I do my HTML in > Geany, edit it locally, then paste it into a WP page, but not everyone is > HTML conversant. > > JVLB > > > On 11/19/2014 02:57 PM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Walter Lapchynski <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So I was thinking it would be nice to have a blog. Integrating that >> into our website is probably a good idea, but regardless, being >> included in the Planet Ubuntu¹ feed (and maybe in the LoCo Portal² >> feed) would be a good way to get the word out on what we're doing. >> Currently, no one really casually runs into us and I think that would >> be a good thing to try to have. >> >> > Planet Ubuntu is only for individual blogs or project blogs they > do not do LoCo's AFAIK but LoCo.ubuntu.com does ofc > > IIRC correctly most of our traffic came from search or Ubuntu Forums > LoCo.ubuntu.com sent very little traffic. > > >> >> I should point out that until I was aware that the team needed a >> leader that I didn't even know what LoCos were, let alone that there >> was an Oregon team, despite being a contributor for many years. I'm >> probably not the only one. >> > > Shucks that's a shame as at one point we were one of the most active in > North America but before the Oregon Team existed there was also the PNW > LoCo which was Washington and Oregon combined but the Governance disbanded > it and forced LoCo's to choose states. As a result both Washington and > Oregon become pretty inactive. > > Then Dan and Thomas both gave it a go and ran the LoCo for sometime but > Dan left for the Army and Thomas I think did not have enough time? Time > always seems to be the thing. > > > > >> >> That being said, I've looked into the notion of aggregating our posts >> via something like Yahoo Pipes, but I discover now that on Planet >> Ubuntu this means it will link to the Pipes feed and can't be >> redefined to point at some other site. >> >> So I'm kind of leaning towards the idea that we actually have a blog >> blog with various authors who can contribute to it. I guess we get a >> Drupal website with the Canonical hosting³. Any Drupal lovers out >> there can confirm that we can get a well-formed RSS feed out of it? I >> know enough about Drupal to know that we can have a bloggish kind of >> thing. >> > > I believe Canonical by default uses WordPress for LoCo's but I would > also encourage you guys to find a sponsor and self-host it might save you > headaches when it comes to upgrades, waiting on things etc. > > Most LoCo's get hosting on their own because it is easier. > > >> Anyone excited about blogging? >> >> ¹ http://planet.ubuntu.com/ >> ² http://loco.ubuntu.com/ >> ³ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoHosting >> >> -- >> @wxl >> Lubuntu Release Manager, Head of QA >> Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact >> Ubuntu Oregon LoCo Team Leader >> >> -- >> Ubuntu-us-or mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-or >> > > > > -- > *Benjamin Kerensa* > *http://benjaminkerensa.com <http://benjaminkerensa.com>* > *"I am what I am because of who we all are" - Ubuntu* > > > > > -- > Ubuntu-us-or mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-or > >
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