Actually, depending on how many SAGE developers blog at all, we should consider a planet.sagemath.org style blog. The idea is the planet.* is an aggregator of blogs it subscribes to and publishes blogs with specific tags. For example, planet.sagemath.org would subscribe to Mike Hanson, Martin Albrecht, and Ondrej Certik's blog. Each time those people post something to their own blogs with the 'sage' tag, it will show up on planet.sagemath.org. Many open source communities use this. See the urls below for examples.
The software that makes it happen is called PlanetPlanet (http://www.planetplanet.org/) Some projects that use this include: * Planet GNOME (planet.gnome.org) * Planet Debian (planet.debian.org) * Planet Twisted (planet.twistedmatrix.org) etc..You can see a more complete list at planetplanet.org. On Dec 8, 2007 7:05 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 8, 2007 7:03 PM, Bobby Moretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > At the very least, I think it would be a good idea to use a content > > management system for the website. > > That's a really good idea. Mike Hansen has been getting really > into Django lately, so maybe he can help with that. Using Django > would probably make a lot of sense. > > > The front page could be blog-like, containing mostly news, updates, > > info, and releases. > > Yep. > > > Then if someone has a personal blog entry that says something > > interesting about Sage, we can just link to it from the front page as > > a news story. This way everything would be archived, etc. > > I like this idea. > > William > > > > > > On Dec 8, 2007 6:59 PM, didier deshommes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > 2007/12/8, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > My brother suggests that a "Sage blog" be somehow created (see below). > > > > It's > > > > a good idea. Any ideas about what this might entail? Weekly developer > > > > summaries? A "cool trick"? Little articles? Etc. I have never > > > > blogged > > > > > > +1 > > > This could also be good to announce new versions, improvements, papers > > > written in Sage, etc. Developers blogging about Sage could be fun: it > > > would expose how some other parts of the Sage code works (this would > > > also help Bus Days). For example, when I wrote QDRF, I blogged about > > > what one would need to do in order to implement (floating-point) > > > fields in Sage since I had learned a great deal about this part of the > > > code. > > > > > > Of course, the thing with blogging is time :) . If you're blogging, > > > you're not writing code and sometimes you just can't afford that ;). > > > > > > didier > > > > > > > > > > at all, but I know some of you (e.g., Martin Albrecht and Ondrej Certik) > > > > are old pros at blogging. Thoughts? > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > > > From: Dennis Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Date: Dec 8, 2007 1:28 PM > > > > Subject: blog and rss > > > > To: William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > > > William, > > > > > > > > Non-developer users of Sage might enjoy learning more about what is > > > > going on in the Sage world. A blog would be a great way to do this. > > > > You could post things like the AMS event, published articles, news of > > > > major changes in the software, upcoming cool new features, something > > > > funny that is Sage related, a profile of someone who has significantly > > > > contributed to the software, a user profile, and so on. People could > > > > subscribe to it via email or RSS. You could use a free blog service > > > > (webpress or blogspot or whatever) and use Google's free Feebburner > > > > for the email subscription service for people to subscribe. > > > > > > > > http://www.mathworks.com/company/rss/index.html > > > > > > > > Google has a blog that they post to about once every three weeks or so. > > > > > > > > Obviously making the software the best it can be is a bigger priority, > > > > but a blog could be useful at some point for keeping in touch with > > > > people (reporters, users, fans). > > > > > > > > --Dennis > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > William Stein > > > > Associate Professor of Mathematics > > > > University of Washington > > > > http://wstein.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Bobby Moretti > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
