Excerpts from Joshua Harlow's message of 2017-11-27 10:54:02 -0800: > Flavio Percoco wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > Last Thursday[0], at the TC office hours, we brainstormed a bit around > > the idea > > of having a tech blog. This idea came first from Joshua Harlow and it > > was then > > briefly discussed at the summit too. > > > > The idea, we have gathered, is to have a space where the community could > > write > > technical posts about OpenStack. The idea is not to have an aggregator > > (that's > > what our planet[1] is for) but a place to write original and curated > > content. > > During the conversation, we argued about what kind of content would be > > acceptable for this platform. Here are some ideas of things we could > > have there: > > > > - Posts that are dev-oriented (e.g: new functions on an oslo lib) > > - Posts that facilitate upstream development (e.g: My awesome dev setup) > > - Deep dive into libvirt internals > > - ideas? > > > > As Chris Dent pointed out on that conversation, we should avoid making this > > place a replacement for things that would otherwise go on the mailing > > list - > > activity reports, for example. Having dev news in this platform, we would > > overlap with things that go already on the mailing list and, arguably, > > we would > > be defeating the purpose of the platform. But, there might be room for > > both(?) > > > > Ultimately, we should avoid topics promoting new features in services as > > that's what > > superuser[2] is for. > > > > So, what are your thoughts about this? What kind of content would you > > rather > > have posted here? Do you like the idea at all? > > Yes, I like it :) > > I want a place that is like http://blog.kubernetes.io/ > > With say an editor that solicits (and backlogs topics and stories and > such) various developers/architects at various companies and creates a > actually human curated place for developers and technology and > architecture to be spot-lighted. > > To me personal blogs can be used for this, sure, but that sort of misses > the point of having a place that is targeted for this (and no I don't > really care about finding and subscribing to 100+ random joe blogs that > I will never look at more than once). Ideally that place would not > become `elitist` as some others have mentioned in this thread (ie, don't > pick an elitist editor? lol). > > The big desire for me is to actually have a editor (a person or people) > involved that is keeping such a blog going and editing it and curating > it and ensuring it gets found in google searches and is *developer* > focused...
Are you volunteering? :-) Doug __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
