news.fedoraproject.org
Zhukov Pavel
gelios at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 19:31:33 UTC 2008
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Sudheer <sudheer.s at binaryvibes.co.in> wrote:
> Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> > Evening all,
> >
> > We've been talking for a while about setting up a news.fedoraproject.org
> > site, for a number of different uses. Thanks to the hard work of Frank
> > Chiulli we now have a test install of Lyceum on publictest 1 for our use :)
> > Before moving forward with this, we need to deal with a number of issues:
> >
> > 1) What do we actually want to use the site for?
> >
> > My thoughts are that we use it for Fedora Weekly News, along with other
> > marketing stuff such as interviews and announcements - similar to what
> > press.redhat.com is.
> >
> > 2) Depending on the above, do we want to use Lyceum or Wordpress? Infra
> > would like us to have whatever solution we use packaged and yumable on
> > Fedora; Wordpress is already in while Lyceum needs packaging. As I
> > understand it Lyceum allows us to have multiple blogs and is what's used by
> > Red Hat Magazine. Wordpress only allows for the one blog, but would also
> > allow multiple authors/editors on a single blog (I think).
> >
> >
> I recommend Drupal. It provides multi user blog and whole lot of other
> features.
>
> > 3) Experiment and play - find a work flow that's right for us! We may need
> > some test material for this, such as an example FWN release or a mock
> > announcement.
> >
> > 4) We need a theme. I've started on one, and whatever we create for
> > Wordpress should also work on Lyceum, though we've had some problems with
> > this! If you're interested to see what I've got so far,
> > test.questionsplease.org will let you :) I can make this available for
> > people to use as a base. All I've done is create a simple Wordpress
> > template that uses the ids and classes from fedora.css, and point at that
> > for the style sheet. I'll upload this to my fedorapeople space soon...
> >
> >
> I would be glad to help set-up Drupal for news.fedoraproject.org.
>
> > Anyone is welcome to sign up and we can start adding people in different
> > roles to the Fedora News blog I created in Lyceum, but the URL for the
> > install is on another box...Rahul, Frank, can you help me out here?
> >
> > I think that's all for now. Does anybody have any thoughts or ideas about
> > this? Ah, and finally, could we keep all replies to the marketing list, if
> > people think that's appropriate? Better to do everything once than 5 times!
> >
> >
> > Best wishes, and sorry for all the stuff I've probably forgotten!
> >
> > Jon
> >
> >
> --
>
> With warm regards,
> Sudheer. S
> http://binaryvibes.co.in
>
>
>
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+1 for drupal. it have powerful multi-user blog abilities. Also we can
use voting system to submit posts on front page.
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