Florian, Is there not already a machine running that we could add our blog directory to? What I mean is, the website is up right now on some server... I'd guess a SUN server somewhere. What is it running on and who is in charge of THAT machine? If they install a database for us we could attach a regular wordpress install and have our blog there. By the way, has anyone thought about wordpress MU? I think that would help out a ton, and I'm writing some crazy plugins for it now.. But I guess that goes in the "website" mailer, which I think I'm about to join.. As a side note, I currently have a variety of servers up and running online, I would be willing to host a directory for the blog on one of my servers. Let me know,
-Dennis On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Florian Effenberger <flo...@openoffice.org>wrote: > Hi Dennis, > > > One thing I am wondering is what the different blogs are doing and which >> are >> related to the "art" sections, just marketing, etc. >> Right now I found: >> http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/ >> and >> http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/ >> > > the first one is a normal blog, while the latter one is a feed aggregator, > combining various blogs into one. It grabs the feeds of other blogs and > presents them on one site. > > That would also be my second choice, given that we find no authors for the > marketing blog -- in this case, everyone can have his/her own blog, tagging > OOo-relevant articles and we aggregate them together in the planet. > > > I believe we found a while back that the blogger utility did not allow for >> much in the realm of custom layouts. >> What is the delay on switching to a standalone host? What is the hosting >> situation of the OOo servers? Im sure they could spare a directory for a >> wordpress install as well as a MySQL database. A decent server admin could >> restrict our access to that directory, and once they install our database >> we >> wouldnt need to mess with them. >> > > I am currently thinking about hosting a dedicated blog. The main problem is > that we need someone to administer and maintain the machine as well as the > blog software, and we're usually short on people doing so. ;-) In addition, > before we don't know if we find enough authors, it doesn't make much sense > to migrate the blog to a new platform. > > But basically, I agree: A new, fresh design and a good blogging software > surely would help the blog. > > > Florian > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: art-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: art-h...@marketing.openoffice.org > >
