On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Christoph Noack <[email protected]> wrote: Hi everyone, I'm sure you all know "OpenOffice.org Planet" and enjoy the aggregation of single messages in one place. But, at least to me, some things seem to be sub-optimal. Fortunately, I had the chance to discuss some of my observations with the current administrator (mh). An example: The blog messages of the UX community are published via Blogspot and collected by the Planet. I already know that certain formatting gets lost (e.g. bold or colored text), so I cannot improve the readability of the text right from the beginning :-( Additionally, the Planet keeps the postings for a certain time only - this is a pity, since we lose the detailed history of longer lasting activities within OpenOffice.org (e.g. Renaissance). Finally, the only chance is to refer to other information sources like GullFOSS (they have a message archive), but it is only accessible for Sun employees. However, I think you got the point... Well if you want a history of all this is as simple as just creating an OPML of all the blogs and connecting them on a CMS as posts replications, that will make all the info go into a database and you will have history manipulation. Any CMS can do that including Joomla or Drupal, even a public Google Reader account will have this functionality. At the end of the talk we came to the conclusion that a little bit help might work wonders :-) I naively asked whether there has ever been a request to website-dev. It seems not ... so I proposed to ask you for some help. So, are you - or a small group - ready to make the Planet more visible, easier to use, and more reliable? That would be sooo great! The first step is as easy as answering on this mail :-) To provide a bit inspiration, here is what the "competition" does: * http://planet.gnome.org/ * http://planetkde.org/ * http://fridge.ubuntu.com/ * http://planet.fedoraproject.org/ * http://www.planetsuse.org/ * ... Did you know that it is also possible to provide sub-planets (like [1])? Marketing has one since quite some time [2], and the NLC too [3]. But both seem separated from the main Planet. Ah, "separate" is a good keyword. I am also fully separated from any information how the planet is technically realized. At the moment, I'm the one asking for help ... ;-) By the way, does anybody know why there is an additional one? http://www.planetopenoffice.org/ Thanks in advance! Christoph [1] http://planet.services.openoffice.org/ux [2] http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/ [3] http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/ -- Usability * Productivity * Enjoyment OpenOffice.org User Experience Team http://ux.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Espa&ntilde;ol IM: [email protected]
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