I like to talk about the Planet. I think historically Planets habe been a great idea. At first only very few blogs did exist and then there where many - It was too difficult to visit them all and even collecting all feeds was difficult. But was is planet really? What is noise and what is signal?
I think for most of us blogs of gnomers are an inside view. We like to be informed about what the people we know or not yet know do. Some companies do have blogs only in their intranets. But we want that to be public. But the question is what role the Planet should have for WGO (www.gnome.org) or NGO (news.gnome.org)? I think that Planet is rather a thing for developer.gnome.org and that what we rather need as News is content that is dedicated to the news aspect. I think developer stuff should be part of WGO and that developer news is also interesting for many. But I suggest that we rather blog about developer blog posts in a blog that is part of the CMS (and send trackbacks to their blogs) as to simply include all stuff. The other problem is: Who onws the content. If GNOME gathers data the various sources might have different licenses and so none of the news is under control of GNOME. Instead of this it would be much better if all news content is published under the same free license so that everybody would know how he can cite and what else he can do. Everybody who wants to contribute to the news must agree to the given license. Otherwise everybody could play his games with WGO. The license issue should be raised for all content on *.gnome.org. I think it is possible to have a mix of licenses but the CMS must help the user to select a license (otherwise there should be a default one). This would allow us and others to exchange content with Wikipedia or other documentation projects .Not with OpenOffice.org or fedoraproject.org though because they choose some kind of minority licenses: PDL and OPL. Thats why I would rather prefer GFDL or one of the Creative Commons licenses. Thilo -- Blog: http://vinci.wordpress.com Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig _______________________________________________ gnome-web-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list
