On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 08:37:41PM -0500, Mo Morsi wrote:
What would the benefit of doing this over simple aggregating various
blogs together. The way we have it now, the blogroll (now fixed btw)
aggregates my blog, clalance's, and lutters, and we can add more
through the redmine interface.
This is a good question, especially given that in my initial post, I
kind of envisioned a blog with lots of people posting about Aeolus. And
I do think that would kind of unnecessarily duplicate what the blogroll
does.
I still think there should be an Aeolus Project blog, but that we could
include it on the blogroll. I kind of like what Smashing Magazine does
here -- they have their own blog, and then a "Network" tab that's
syndicated from an array of other blogs. We could do something similar
by linking to the blogroll from the main blog for extended content.
I think there are two reasons for having an official blog. The first is
that it would be the official, canonical source of information about
Aeolus. I think a lot of people either don't subscribe to aeolus-devel,
or begrudgingly subscribe to aeolus-devel with a ton of filters, wanting
only to receive information *about* the project, not patches. The blog
would contain that information -- release announcements, posts about new
features, and so forth.
The other reason I think this would be good, though it's kind of
secondary, is that I'm not sure everyone has (or wants?) a blog of their
own. This way the blog-less could still be coerced into^W^W convinced to
write about neat developments on the project.
So, in short, I think the two would complement each other more than
they'd duplicate each other.
Anyone can post Aeolus content to their blog, tag it, and have their
blog aggregated on the blog roll. This way those individual blogs can
be added to other blogrolls to promote aeolus there and the aeolus
blogroll can act as the official 'blog' (it also exports a rss feed
which can be agreggated in itself).
It may just be semantics at this point, but I basically agree with this
as a philosophy, except for the part about it being the official blog.
Incidentally, this is incentive for me to get my butt in gear and add an
Aeolus tag to my own blog and start writing about the project...
-- Matt