[postgis-users] The PostGIS Blog project

[Magnus Hagander]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 16:14, Pierre Racine
<Pierre.Racine at sbf.ulaval.ca> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> With the venue of PostGIS 2.0, I was thinking about starting a new blog to teach a bit about PostGIS Raster but with the proliferation of blogs, everybody in its corner, I was thinking that it would be much better for the project to have a multi author blog uniquely devoted to and aggregating posts about PostGIS. Authors often blogging about PostGIS (like Paul and Regina) could concentrate their post about PostGIS there. We could accept occasional posts from advanced users and repost posts made by others. That would be a kind of one-stop blog for PostGIS. We could name it "The PostGIS Blog".
>
> I know some of you might prefer to keep your post in your own blog for visibility reasons but we could give you a comparable (or better) visibility in the new blog by making the association with a company clear and put the picture of the author. We could also make clear promotional add type boxes to the respective authors' organizations.
>
> What do you think?

FWIW, I'd advocate for an aggregator rather than a multi-author blog.
Something like planet.postgresql.org. That way authors could easily
have their posts crossposted to multiple places (e.g. both a "planet
postgis" and "planet postgresql" and their own corporate site and
whatever else they might want) without having to post more than
once...

But I don't blog about postgis much, so I'd say those that do carry
more weight :)

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