On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 02:57:16PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 02:14:18PM -0500, Kelcey Damage (BBITS) wrote: > > Just moving this over to the dev list. > > > > We are building a blog aggregator, kindly hosted by jlkinsel. > > Possible goals for the aggregator: > > 1) allow CS developers to post about their CS work (e.g. pull specific > tagged RSS feeds) > > 2) allow CS users to post about their CS work (e.g. pull specific > tagged RSS feeds) > > 3) allow CS developers to post anything (not necessarily CS-related), > as a way to build community by knowing a little more about each > other. > > > What do people want to see? Personally, I'm OK with all three. But > our choice may affect where it's hosted and who runs it.
I'd suggest 1+2, possibly 3. I'm not worried about "noise" from 3, but if my blog is eventually aggregated, I'd prefer to not worry about annoying others if I decide to post a fair amount of non-CS content. > Wherever possible I'd like to see CS use ASF Infrastructure > (e.g. planet.apache.org/cloudstack). That reinforces our commitment > to being an Apache project. I don't know how to go about getting > access to such, but would be willing to learn. I couldn't find > examples of other Apache projects having their own aggregators, so we > may be breaking new ground here with ASF Infrastructure. There's at least two, one that was well established before it became an Apache project. Planet OpenOffice: http://planetopenoffice.org/ Planet Cassandra: http://planetcassandra.org/ Best, Joe -- Joe Brockmeier http://dissociatedpress.net/ Twitter: @jzb
