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Subject: RE: Blog Created
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Ah well.  I've seen those kinds of blogs, that are essentially =
announcements.  So it is  a notices mechanism with a syndication feed.  =
I will have to go look at one of the ones that seems to get lots of hits =
according to the headline/summary aggregator.  Wonder if they get much =
by way of comments apart from spam.

I'm from the "Naked Conversations" school of blogging, so I may have to =
take my crayons to some other place where I can ponder the fright, =
frustration, and outright fun on an Apache project, the OpenOffice.org =
podling in particular.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Gavin McDonald [mailto:gavin@16degrees.com.au]=20
Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 19:39
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: RE: Blog Created


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Brown [mailto:andy@the-martin-byrd.net]
> Sent: Sunday, 10 July 2011 12:18 PM
> To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Blog Created
>=20
> Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> > Dang!
> >
> > Well, I just jumped right in.
> >
> > So, we want the blog to be the official voice of the project in some =
way?
> >
> > Is that a requirement?  Is that what we want?  I thought that is =
what web
> sites are for.  Blogs have a different kind of voice in my experience.
> >
> > I have lots of outlets for blogging, and I could always create an =
Apache-
> oriented RSS feed for aggregation, although probably not, since it =
doesn't
> seem like that much fun.
> >
> > Ah well,
> >
> >  - Dennis
>=20
> I would not say "official" but at least semi-official in that it would =
show, in a
> faster way, what we are doing and how things are going with the =
project.  I
> think what you did was a good indication of the way it should go.  =
That is my
> personal opinion and I my be off base here.

+1

All blogs at blogs.apache.org are official in that they talk about the =
project, they don't
wander off talking about some developers own thing etc etc...

They can talk about releases as extra exposure - folks often subscribe =
to RSS feeds
etc rather than keep looking to a website for an update. They can talk =
about what's
happening currently, they can announce a new committer, a new up and =
coming=20
feature or long awaited fix,etc etc..

What Dennis blogged IMO was spot on and a great start to the Apache =
OpenOffice[.org]
blog.

What Dave mentioned is also something some but not all projects do, and =
not all the time -=20
that is to draft a blog announcement for something, then post a 'preview =
url' to the (this)
dev list for opinions on changes/tweaks/etc before it goes live. That is =
ideally a tool on=20
improving, extending and typechecking the blog post rather than opinions =
to veto it .

HTH


Gav...

>=20
> Andy