I disagree. The best way to get a successful blog/community is to have compelling content that people are interested in Reading. Where that blog is hosted is irrelevant. It needs to be super easy to write blog posts and I susect the people who have voted +1 are doing so because they think blogger best serves that purpose.
In this inter connected world where community is commonly spread between services like blogger, facebook, twitter and so on I do not understand an argument that says that the community must be on one domain to succeed. My additional 2 cents worth :) Alasdair. On Tuesday, October 13, 2009, Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Kevan Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Oct 9, 2009, at 7:19 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: >>> ...Although I still think running a project blog outside of ASF >>> infrastructure is suboptimal, I'm not opposed to that if the Aries >>> community wants it that way - I was just offering my advice as an >>> incubation mentor. >> >> Agreed. From an Apache perspective, I'd prefer that blogs.apache.org be used >> for an Aries blog. If the community has reasons for running a community blog >> elsewhere, than that's fine... > > I can't help noticing that most or all -1 (meaning "host at > blogs.apache.org") in the ongoing vote thread come from experienced > Apache committers, and I think that's for a good reason: hosting > things at apache.org, although slightly less convenient in some cases, > gives said things a much better chance of long-term survival. > > Not only in terms of technical survival, but more importantly in terms > of community survival. > > My 2 (additional ;-) cents. > -Bertrand > -- Alasdair Nottingham [email protected]
