On Dec 8, 2007 8:09 PM, Yi Qiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
Hey Yi, that's a really good idea. Even Python has their own planet: planet.python.org and on the side bar of that page there is a link to a bunch more planets ... basically there's a lot of gravity to this idea ;) Alex > > > 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
