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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. <br>
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For reference, the site I'm referring to is
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://currentreading.wordpress.com/">http://currentreading.wordpress.com/</a> 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. <br>
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JVLB <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/19/2014 02:57 PM, Benjamin
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 8:24 AM,
Walter Lapchynski <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div>So I was thinking it would be nice to have a blog.
Integrating that<br>
into our website is probably a good idea, but
regardless, being<br>
included in the Planet Ubuntu¹ feed (and maybe in the
LoCo Portal²<br>
feed) would be a good way to get the word out on what
we're doing.<br>
Currently, no one really casually runs into us and I
think that would<br>
be a good thing to try to have.<br>
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Planet Ubuntu is only for individual blogs or project
blogs they<br>
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<div>do not do LoCo's AFAIK but <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://LoCo.ubuntu.com">LoCo.ubuntu.com</a> does
ofc <br>
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<div>IIRC correctly most of our traffic came from search or
Ubuntu Forums<br>
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<div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://LoCo.ubuntu.com">LoCo.ubuntu.com</a>
sent very little traffic.<br>
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<br>
I should point out that until I was aware that the team
needed a<br>
leader that I didn't even know what LoCos were, let
alone that there<br>
was an Oregon team, despite being a contributor for many
years. I'm<br>
probably not the only one.<br>
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<div>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.<br>
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<div>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.<br>
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That being said, I've looked into the notion of
aggregating our posts<br>
via something like Yahoo Pipes, but I discover now that
on Planet<br>
Ubuntu this means it will link to the Pipes feed and
can't be<br>
redefined to point at some other site.<br>
<br>
So I'm kind of leaning towards the idea that we actually
have a blog<br>
blog with various authors who can contribute to it. I
guess we get a<br>
Drupal website with the Canonical hosting³. Any Drupal
lovers out<br>
there can confirm that we can get a well-formed RSS feed
out of it? I<br>
know enough about Drupal to know that we can have a
bloggish kind of<br>
thing.<br>
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<div>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.<br>
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<div>Most LoCo's get hosting on their own because it is
easier.<br>
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Anyone excited about blogging?<br>
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¹ <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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² <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://loco.ubuntu.com/" target="_blank">http://loco.ubuntu.com/</a><br>
³ <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoHosting"
target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoHosting</a><br>
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@wxl<br>
Lubuntu Release Manager, Head of QA<br>
Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact<br>
Ubuntu Oregon LoCo Team Leader<br>
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