[Ubuntu Oregon] team blog

[James Bradley]

Having recently moved our local paddling group's web stuff to a
wordpress.com site, I can say it's really pretty painless. I had been
hosting the group's materials on my old commercial site, but am letting
that go at the end of the year. One advantage of Automattic's
wordpress.com service is that they do all the updates for you. The
disadvantages accrue more to commercial sites than to a simple blog or
non-commercial site. Among the disadvantages are an
"entity.wordpress.com" URL, no choice of plugins, and no ability to
modify the underlying PHP code. The big advantage is, of course, "free
is a very good price." WordPress software also has a pretty good range
tools for maintaining contributor accounts, eliminating spam, etc.

For reference, the site I'm referring to is
http://currentreading.wordpress.com/ The only page that was a pain to
build was the River Conditions page, but along the way I learned some
tricks to simplify the process. I only started the conversion a couple
weeks ago, so it isn't quite feature complete, yet. You might want to
note that the Paddle Trip FAQ and Participantship pages are just MS
Office HTML output, cut and pasted into a WP page, (there is plenty of
extraneous crap in the code, but it's effortless to produce and displays
okay). I imagine LibreOffice output would fare at least as well.
Personally, I do my HTML in Geany, edit it locally, then paste it into a
WP page, but not everyone is HTML conversant.

JVLB


On 11/19/2014 02:57 PM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Walter Lapchynski <wxl at ubuntu.com
> <mailto: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 <http://LoCo.ubuntu.com>
> does ofc 
>
> IIRC correctly most of our traffic came from search or Ubuntu Forums
> LoCo.ubuntu.com <http://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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>     @wxl
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>     Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact
>     Ubuntu Oregon LoCo Team Leader
>
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