[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Blogs

[Landon Blake]

Thanks Frank. I'll move forward.

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Landon Blake
> <sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com> wrote:
>> OSGeo Members:
>>
>> I'd like to start a blog about my work as volunteer editor of the
>> OSGeo Journal. This blog would give me the opportunity to do the
>> following:
>>
>> 1) Provide regular updates on the Journal.
>> 2) Recruit new volunteers for the Journal team.
>> 3) Solicit Contributions to future issues of the Journal.
>> 4) Post Journal articles online.
>> 5) Acknowledge the efforts of Journal volunteers.
>>
>> I'm already using Wordpress, and it would be simple for me to start
>> the blog there. But I didn't want to take that step without opening
>> the idea for debate here.
>>
>> I certainly don't need the blog to be "official" in any capacity, but
>> if OSGeo has the infrastructure and the community prefers the blog be
>> hosted there, I don't have a problem with that. I wanted to ask before
>> I started blazing my own trail. How has this issue been handled in the
>> by other members working on OSGeo committees or projects?
>
> Landon,
>
> I believe Tyler was using our main Drupal portal for blogging
> at one point but I'm not keen on building dependence on
> more aspects of Drupal that might complicate future migration.
>
> I'd suggest doing it your own way and just making sure it gets
> added to http://planet.osgeo.org/
>
> Best regards,
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