[Qgis-psc] Blog aggregator

[Gary Sherman]

On 11/30/10 8:41 PM, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi
>
> Would we be able to theme it to look like the other QGIS web
> properties? It will be a great addition. The translation guys asked me
> to use joomla for the release announcements as it is easier to
> translate them, so we probably wont have much active use of the
> blog.qgis.org in its current form and it should be safe to mothball it
> and go with the planet approach.
>
The themes are templates so it should be only a bit of work to retool it 
to look like the rest of the QGIS web presence.

The blog of late has only been used for release announcements so I think 
you are correct---the blog can be retired. It would be nice to be able 
to archive it somehow...
-gary

> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Otto Dassau<otto.dassau at gmx.de>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:11:09 +0100
>> schrieb Paolo Cavallini<cavallini at faunalia.it>:
>>
>>> Il 29/11/2010 03:19, Gary Sherman ha scritto:
>>>
>>>> If this is what the PSC is thinking in terms of functionality, we can
>>>> install it on the qgis vm. It is pretty lightweight---python that runs
>>>> under a cron to collect and regenerate the page on a regular basis.
>>>>
>>>> See it at: http://spatialgalaxy.net/planet/
>>>
>>> To me it is what we need.
>>
>> yes, it looks good. Do we also/still need something where people can
>> directly blog. Or do you think it is fine to just remove/archive our current
>> blog and use "planet" instead?
>>
>> Regards,
>>   Otto
>>
>>> Thanks Gary.
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