Blog syndication for GSoC - ers

[Mike McGrath]

On Sat, 24 May 2008, Mike McGrath wrote:

> On Sun, 25 May 2008, Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
>
> > On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Eugene Teo <eteo at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
> > >> With the new process for getting (and staying) on Planet Fedora in
> > >> place, how does it affect GSoC-ers ?
> > >>
> > >> Do we have their blogs on the Planet ? And, do they get FedoraPeople.org
> > >> accounts ?
> > >
> > > Is it possible to waive the requirement that my mentee has to be
> > > sponsored to a group other than the CLA group? I remember there were
> > > discussion about syndicating our mentees blogs to Planet Fedora?
> >
> > I'm going to forward this to seth vidal, who is in charge of such
> > things, and the Fedora Infrastructure team.
> >
> > Personally I think that the students/mentees will need access to the
> > wiki at some point or another. That can definitely count as a second
> > group.  I've made it a point for my mentee to have a biography on the
> > wiki, and with the new wiki, it has it's own group in FAS.
> >
> > To actually put a blog on Planet Fedora, the mentees need to follow
> > the instructions seth posted a few days ago.
> >
> > They can be found here
> > http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/changes-at-planet-fedora/
> >
>
> My personal feeling is that individuals that want to be on planet really
> should be a fedora contributor.  The barriers are pretty low (and going
> down even more all the time) to contribute.
>
> The question then is, why would someone want to be on Fedora planet but
> not be a fedora contributor?
>

Alternatively, perhaps we should just have an GSoC group?  These guys are
technically contributors...

	-Mike