Re: 'diversification'

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Jos Poortvliet <[email protected]>wrote:

> Gents,
>
> There are some things we discussed at the oS conference which might also be
> relevant for ya'll.
>
> One is the multitude of communication platforms openSUSE has. KDE is doing
> reasonably well: kde.org is the home page, dot is the 'official' news
> site,
> and planet is for community contributions. But now there is
> projects.kde.org,
> with it's own news feed. It's great but maybe think about integrating
> things a
> bit more somehow? Showing the news on planet or something, I dunno...
>
> Second, during my time in Promo I have often been frustrated a bit with
> great
> posts about conferences or releases being posted on planet - while I
> thought
> they should've been going to the dot. We have the same in openSUSE and are
> currently discussing a solution: get rid of news.o.o as an independent
> thing
> but instead turn it into a chery-picking tool for the planet. The marketing
> peeps who used to write there will get a 'marketing blog' which will be
> automatically aggregated on news, the rest can be choosen where and when
> needed.
>
> This could also be a possible solution for the dot - it's something to
> think
> about. It surely has dis-advantages - you can't edit the planet posts, for
> example. But as add-on it might just work ;-)
>

Interesting idea...I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other but
here are a few things that come to mind in no particular order:

- It would probably require less 'editing' work given it's aggregating and
we can't edit at all in that scenario.  No html code formatting, begging for
pictures, etc would be nice :)
- In general the work load on the Dot editor team would be less I guess if
we implemented it, which is consistently low on active volunteers.  Anything
that makes life easier in that respect is good imo.
- I assume this would mean putting in an entirely new content management
system in place of the Dot to pull it off.  May or may not be a big
deal...it's not like our sysadmins are sitting around bored these days :)
- It would result in the Dot never having exclusive/original content.
- It would result in the Dot getting more well written articles from KDE
community members who wouldn't normally submit articles to the Dot.
- Would it matter to authors/bloggers that we're taking their blog articles
and thrusting them into a much larger audience?  Jos, did all the openSUSE
folks seem to be ok with this sort of thing?  I just know some people might
not want their stuff being put on a 'news site' vs the planet but then
again, if they're posting an article on the planet it seems like they'd
already expect a wide audience anyways?
- Would it matter that things are often written in a different journalistic
style in blogs compared to how articles have been written for a news site
like the Dot?

-Justin


>
> Cheers,
> Jos
>
>
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