Hi Florian, Brian and Dennis! A similar discussion has been started quite recently on the website-dev mailing list. To be honest, it has been started by me and the number of responses has been ... concise :-)
Maybe that can be easily changed with your help. Basically, there are several more or less independent blogs/planets/information sources which miss a common design and a central location. For example: the marketing blog, the NLC planet, GullFOSS, the UX team blog, ... Since about one year we have the OpenOffice.org Planet which aggregates information and also allows to set-up sub-blogs. Might this be helpful for the marketing? And, since they are based on the same structure, other planets and the main site would have some benefit, too. Please read on here (and come back for the rest of the mail *g*): http://website.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=11193 Florian, the UX team faces a pretty similar situation. That is how we try to address it: * Blogs: The Sun employees do use GullFOSS exclusively. Since only few people have an own blog, we set up a Blogspot blog for the community (similar to the ooomarketing, see [1]). * Aggregation: We use a sub-planet of the official OOo Planet to aggregate our postings from Sun and other community members. That allows us to present UX topics only [2]. * Aggregation²: We added the same sources to the official OOo Planet to present it to the whole community. The advantage is - when having only few postings - that there is sufficient traffic which covers the whole world around OOo. [3] * Blogspot design: Some time ago, I started to adapt the simple theme to better match the OOo colors. I know that it is fa...ar from perfect, but maybe it is a starting point. [1] http://uxopenofficeorg.blogspot.com/ [2] http://planet.services.openoffice.org/ux [3] http://planet.services.openoffice.org Aehm, there are still some unresolved issues. But anyway, I hope it helps a bit to continue the discussion. Maybe there is a chance to not only improve marketing stuff, but also all kind of news und buzz around OOo ;-) By the way, it seems that there are no links between ooomarketing and OOo Planet - and vice versa. Strange... Am Samstag, den 02.01.2010, 13:28 +0100 schrieb Florian Effenberger: > Hi Brian, > > > I'm new to the project, so it took me a little while to find it, but I > > found the blog, and yes, it does look a bit spare. I noticed you're > > using Blogger for the backend, I don't really have much experience with > > Blogger as I tend to use Wordpress (my Wordpress blog is > > http://briancoale.com/blog/ ), but I'd be happy to help out with what I > > can. I can provide artwork, ideas, and if you'd like me to look at the > > backend to see if I can figure out how to integrate it into the blog > > (I'm not sure if Blogger uses themes and such?), I'd be happy to. Just > > some nice artwork & a little tidying up would make that blog look a lot > > nicer, and it'd be a shame to scrap the whole thing for what seems to be > > a solvable aesthetics issue. Let me know. > > thanks for your reply! > > We currently use Blogger, but I plan to set-up an own blog, self-hosted, > and import the existing postings. WordPress is one option, so we are > rather flexible later on. > > The main problem at the moment is, that there are not many postings to > the blog. Having a nice blog is good, but without much of content, it's > not representative. So, next to the design, I also look for regular > contributors :-) Aehm, seems the issues are identical to the UX blog ;-) Have a nice day, Christoph -- Usability * Productivity * Enjoyment OpenOffice.org User Experience Team http://ux.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: art-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: art-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
