Re: Community blogging competition

2011/6/8 Jos Poortvliet <[email protected]>:
> On Wednesday 08 June 2011 01:05:22 Lukas wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> One thing KDE misses is large amount of blogs/tutorials/how-to's written
>> for users ranging from newbies to intermediate (hope there is no need
>> explaining why such informal resources are necessary for any virtual
>> community).
>>
>> And we can do something about it with official community blogging
>> competition as a possible solution. From what i observed, top motivators
>> for many people could be:
>>
>> *Personal support* - its a matter of ego, if you can feel people are happy
>> with what you are doing, it gets quite motivating :). It our, as KDE
>> community and promo, job to make sure blogger will get supported as they
>> deserve.
>>
>> *Technical/SEO supprot* - If you have new blog, its going to take a lot of
>> time and wasted posts (in the beginning, none can find it - none will read
>> it) until it will get well ranked in google. Its demotivating for the
>> author and a big loss or KDE community. Official support with back links
>> from *. kde.org both, helps KDE users find new content as well back links
>> from *. kde.org gives credibility for site -> higher ranking -> more
>> traffic -> more people reading about KDE.
>>
>> *Prizes support* - What kind of competition could be without prizes? :) A
>> weekly t-shrt, monthly usb-key, it doesn’t matter, as long as it motivates
>> people to blog about KDE.
>>
>> Good examples of supporting projects in design community could be
>> http://sixrevisions.com/<http://sixrevisions.com/resources/git-tutorials-be
>> ginners/>or Smashing
>> Network <http://network.smashingmagazine.com/>. Why shouldn't we have
>> network.kde.org ? :)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lukas
>
> We discussed once to add a 'planet-users.kde.org' thingy. I'm actually not
> sure what came out of it :D
>

There was no outcome. And sadly (but needed) we decided to not setup
any new subdomain at all, if it is not really sure about the outcome.
BUT on the webworld sprint we had some ideas, some technical, some
organisational, like finally pushing something like "User of the
Month". In our vision this should not be limited to only a blog
though. It is basically about the overall support in KDE area.
On the other side, we want to come up with a new backend to our main
site, which should make it easy to set up blogs (internally and
externally) to be aggregated.
At this point it is hard to show any possible solution, but might come soon.
The entire idea was based on "Adopt your project" i did some time ago.
Though i forgot where i posted it... :P A blog competition could just
add up on it.

Cheerio,
Ingo
 
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