I think it looks great. The best part is the ability to have an RSS feed. It gives a quick way to look for new information. Only thing I wish is that we could have it directly on our website www.openoffice.org/blog or something like that. I think it will feel more included, but I'm sure that's a question for the website team.
On 8/26/05, Deepankar Datta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > On 26 Aug 2005, at 11:23, Charles-H.Schulz wrote: > > > thanks for your idea. I think that graphically, the blog is much more > > appealing. Nonetheless, I just wonder if the compiling of monthly news > > wouldn't be more difficult. > > Part of the idea was to get a more regular news-flow, that would appeal > for people to visit more, and so interest visitors who would not > otherwise to help contribute. This would also allow others to help > with newsletter generation. Blogspot allows others to become posters > (not just commenting but posting stories) as well as becoming admins > for a blog. So if need be others can be given access to help out or > take over if need be. In that way posters from native-lang projects > could just go on and post a link to the mailing list where they have > news (see the story about the japanese NL project for an example). > > In some ways making the monthly news may be more difficult in the way > that posting to a blog requires a slightly different style to what I > have been using for the newsletter. However this would be offset in > the future (if this is successful) of making much shorter to the point > newsletters, with main stories, and links to additional stories of > interest. This is just due to the fact that 'the newsletter is too > long' comments have been coming for ever so I thought it was time for a > change. > > For those that like a long newsletter I'm hoping that the use of the > syndication service (i think it is in ATOM format) from the blog should > allow some degree of automation of dragging out all the news from a > particular month. And there are all sorts of news aggregators that can > do things with the feed. > > Through this way I'm hoping that additional volunteers may come through > to help the newsletter go weekly ;-) > > However the main interest is to get more people aware of OOo news and > the community in general. Just to state again that this is a test!! > Any ways to improve anything will be welcomed. > > With Thanks > Deepankar > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday > snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Adam Moore Community Volunteer OOo blog: AdamMooreOOo.blogspot.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
