Hi, Sam That is an interesting idea. I have one question about the forward blog, how do you push/pull the blogs to the website.
When I went to your forward blog link initially the blog itself was blank (only the header and sidebar showed). Once I temporarily allowed javascript the blog appeared. (I run NoScript on Firefox as any person concerned with security should). Just curious, John http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS http://johnsearth.blogspot.com ________________________________ From: Samuel Rose <samuel.r...@gmail.com> To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, December 12, 2009 6:00:26 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] Re: WE blog or newsletter? Hey WE friends! On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Chris, Valery and Kirby > > The planetplanet software is great and well aligned with our open community > values :-) > > I don't see any issues with installing this as a WikiEducator subdomain. > This will be great way for aggregating blog-feeds about WikiEducator from > our community members. > > The only issue is going to be one of timing - -we're currently migrating > WikiEducator over to the Athabasca servers --- however, our test > installation is not yet performing at the levels we would like :-(. We're in > the process of putting more metal into the cluster so that our site will > perform at the levels we expect from WikiEducator. > > If possible, We'd prefer to avoid double work with two installations of the > planet software. We would appreciate a couple of weeks breathing space to > get this operational -- Is that OK? > > An open question -- with regards to the WikiEducator blog itself, we've been > throwing around a few ideas. What do you think about the WikiEducator blog > being more wiki-like -- in other words where the WE blogging team > collaborate openly on the post in the wiki way -- a blog post which everyone > can edit. We'll need to take a look at available extensions and think about > RSS feeds, comments etc. Personally, I think this would be rather COOL. > Thoughts? > This is what we are doing with http://forwardfound.org/blog which actually draws from wiki pages on our wiki! We have developed an open standards-based API called FLOWS http://flows.panarchy.com/index.php?title=Main_Page which makes it possible to interface the FLOWS website/blog template with *any* blog or wiki software, potentially. A "blog post" could be flagged when ready for publishing, and a FLOWS object could be listening for the specific wiki category, and then would post the blog post, for instance. We are going to release the FLOWS blog template in Jan under an open license. > Cheers > Wayne > > > > > > > > 2009/12/10 Chris Harvey <gnuch...@gmail.com> >> >> I would assume this is an easy task for some of the technical people >> involved in wikieducator. >> >> 1. Someone download and install the planetplanet software maybe use a >> subdomain e.g blogs.wikieducator.org >> >> 2. Ask people interested in this to give the address of their rss/atom >> feed or perhaps have a wiki page for organizing that. >> >> 3. My favorite part, teach people how to make their own >> hackergotchi(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackergotchi) >> >> For planet talo I made most peoples hackergotchi for them with their >> permission. >> >> 4. In a way this is covered in step 1, schedule a task to update the >> stream, I update mine at 12 noon and midnight >> >> I guess Ive been running mine around 3 years, the only thing Ive had to >> bother doing was modify a text file to add/remove/update the feed list. You >> kind of set it and forget it. >> >> I would suggest talking to Jim or Brent about it, maybe run a trial. >> >> I don't expect it to automatically be the best idea just because its >> something I do, perhaps something like wikinews model is good too. I dont >> know, I do know that you have some talented technology people with the >> skills and experience to provide the community with a free web hosted >> service for this purpose. >> >> Kind warm loving regards and best wishes sincerely >> Chris >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:58 PM, valerie <vtay...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks Chris >>> >>> Yes, your solution looks great and has clear advantages. What do we >>> need to do get get one going for WikiEducator? >>> >>> There was some interest a couple of months ago, but not much action. >>> If this is easy to initiate, I'm happy to work on it. >>> >>> ..Valerie >>> >>> >>> On Dec 9, 5:30 pm, Chris Harvey <gnuch...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > The way I've approached this is using planetplanet software. >>> > >>> > You can see how I use it here.http://superuser.com.au/planettalo >>> > >>> > I believe many free culture communities also use planetplanet, >>> > Wikimedia >>> > have a planet too.http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/ >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "WikiEducator" group. >>> To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org >>> To visit the discussion forum: >>> http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator >>> To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "WikiEducator" group. >> To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org >> To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator >> To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > > -- > Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. > Director, > International Centre for Open Education, > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. > Board of Directors, OER Foundation. > Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org > Mobile +64 21 2436 380 > User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg > Skype: WGMNZ1 > Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- -- Sam Rose Social Synergy Tel:+1(517) 639-1552 Cel: +1-(517)-974-6451 skype: samuelrose email: samuel.r...@gmail.com http://socialsynergyweb.com http://forwardfound.org http://socialsynergyweb.org/culturing http://flowsbook.panarchy.com/ http://socialmediaclassroom.com http://localfoodsystems.org http://notanemployee.net http://communitywiki.org "The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition." - Carl Sagan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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