[UbuntuWomen] Ubuntu Women Blog Brainstorm

Valorie Zimmerman valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com
Sat Mar 27 02:34:42 UTC 2010


On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 6:59 AM, etali <etali at myth-games.com> wrote:
> On 26/03/2010 04:39, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote:
>> 1. Discuss hosting with canonical - we can get drupal hosting for a
>> blog, but there is concern about response time from canonical
>> sysadmins (I believe this has gotten better, but it's worth looking in
>> to if we consider this route)
>>
>> 2. Acquire hosting space maintained by the team, install wordpress and
>> have canonical point blog.ubuntu-women.org at it
>>
>> 3. 3rd party hosting: wordpress.com, blogspot, posterous, etc
>>
> My vote goes for trying canonical first, to see if they are more
> reponsive these days.
>
> A third party host would be the quickest way to get set up, but I think
> it sends out the wrong signals.  There's nothing wrong with free hosts
> for personal use, but it looks unprofessional to me for an organisation
> to be using a freebie host.  I admit it's snobbery, but it's worth
> thinking about the signals the URL sends.
>
> I'd love to help out with this any way I can.

I agree. Plus if we host with Canonical instead of via symlink,
searching is made easier. I don't think it's snobbery at all.

Valorie

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