[kwlug-disc] KWLUG Planet

[Andrew Sullivan Cant]

The collection of KW FLOSS links that I started that might be useful:
http://andrewsullivancant.ca/wiki/waterloo_free_software_portal/

And I think I have more in my notes, that I'll try to add when I can.

Andrew


On 30/01/17 16:29, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> One feature request for the new website was a "KWLUG Planet": an
> aggregator of KWLUG members writing about FLOSSy topics. 
> 
> This is a good idea. I have not implemented it yet in the new Drupal
> site, but how hard could it be? (tm) . But if we do this, we need to
> ensure that there is quality content being aggregated on a regular
> basis. 
> 
> Here are some sensible requirements that come to mind: 
> 
> - Real blogs, not microblogs: it would be easy to hook up the KWLUG
>   GNU Social instance to the aggregator, but that is a bad quality
>   experience -- real blogs get flooded out by the tweetstorms. 
> - Sufficient content: I feel it is not worth putting together a planet
>   if we have fewer than one update per month. From KWLUG bloggers I
>   follow, I think that is a high standard to meet. Many of us do not
>   blog much, and some of us blog less about FLOSSy things than other
>   topics. 
> - Relevant content: the blog posts should be FLOSSy, as much as other
>   topics are close to our hearts. Spammy sales pitches or endless
>   company press releases are probably not good content either.
> - Varied content: if one or two blogs are providing all the updates,
>   then we lose the community aspect.
> 
> Consider this the first call for participants. If you blog about
> FLOSSy things and would be interested in being part of the KWLUG
> Planet, please contact me on or offlist. In order to participate you
> will need an RSS feed that filters your posts so that only ones
> relevant to the planet will be included. 
> 
> It would also be good to put together a shadowy unaccountable cabal of
> moderators who can make difficult judgements about whether particular
> blogs/posts are suitable for inclusion. I would like to keep this
> exercise as friendly and friction-free as possible, but given the
> large number of requests we receive to provide advertising space on
> kwlug.org, I anticipate tricky situations will come up. If you would
> like to be part of this then let me know.
> 
> - Paul
> 


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 833 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://kwlug.org/pipermail/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org/attachments/20170131/5bb76267/attachment.sig>