[Ubuntu Oregon] team blog

[Phillip N]

I have no time to spend reading over a blog, as I get to many emails (BTY
not a complaint, just an observation) LOL.   I subscribe to the Ubuntu LoCo
email list, so I don't have to check a blog-site, emails just automatically
keep flowing inwards - how sweet is that?

If you all do decide on a blog, I'll agree with Benjamin; "find a free
sponsor", because it's going to cost money and time.  I suggest WordPress,
because it's widely used, therefore it'll be easier to find a member, who
is both competent at WP, and has the time.

Phil. N

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On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 4:09 PM, James Bradley <jim at oregoncanoesport.com>
wrote:

>  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> 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
>>
>> --
>> @wxl
>> Lubuntu Release Manager, Head of QA
>> Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact
>> Ubuntu Oregon LoCo Team Leader
>>
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