[Ubuntu Oregon] team blog

[Benjamin Kerensa]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Walter Lapchynski <wxl at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> So I was thinking it would be nice to have a blog. Integrating that
> into our website is probably a good idea, but regardless, being
> included in the Planet Ubuntu¹ feed (and maybe in the LoCo Portal²
> feed) would be a good way to get the word out on what we're doing.
> Currently, no one really casually runs into us and I think that would
> be a good thing to try to have.
>
>
Planet Ubuntu is only for individual blogs or project blogs they
do not do LoCo's AFAIK but LoCo.ubuntu.com does ofc

IIRC correctly most of our traffic came from search or Ubuntu Forums
LoCo.ubuntu.com sent very little traffic.


>
> I should point out that until I was aware that the team needed a
> leader that I didn't even know what LoCos were, let alone that there
> was an Oregon team, despite being a contributor for many years. I'm
> probably not the only one.
>

Shucks that's a shame as at one point we were one of the most active in
North America but before the Oregon Team existed there was also the PNW
LoCo which was Washington and Oregon combined but the Governance disbanded
it and forced LoCo's to choose states. As a result both Washington and
Oregon become pretty inactive.

Then Dan and Thomas both gave it a go and ran the LoCo for sometime but Dan
left for the Army and Thomas I think did not have enough time? Time always
seems to be the thing.




>
> That being said, I've looked into the notion of aggregating our posts
> via something like Yahoo Pipes, but I discover now that on Planet
> Ubuntu this means it will link to the Pipes feed and can't be
> redefined to point at some other site.
>
> So I'm kind of leaning towards the idea that we actually have a blog
> blog with various authors who can contribute to it. I guess we get a
> Drupal website with the Canonical hosting³. Any Drupal lovers out
> there can confirm that we can get a well-formed RSS feed out of it? I
> know enough about Drupal to know that we can have a bloggish kind of
> thing.
>

I believe Canonical by default uses WordPress for LoCo's but I would also
encourage you guys to find a sponsor and self-host it might save you
headaches when it comes to upgrades, waiting on things etc.

Most LoCo's get hosting on their own because it is easier.


> Anyone excited about blogging?
>
> ¹ http://planet.ubuntu.com/
> ² http://loco.ubuntu.com/
> ³ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoHosting
>
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