[Osdc-edu-authors] opensource.com/education planet

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

Hugely valuable, I think.  Personally, I'd like to figure out how to make
this my "daily reading list for edu stuff" -- only I want everyone to be
reading it.  :)

--g

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Mel Chua <mel at redhat.com> wrote:

> About 2 weeks ago, a few of us (myself, Jeff, Mary, Greg, Max, Karsten)
> kicked around the idea of a "newsroom draft" planet-style aggregator of
> author blog feeds. I took 5 minutes and threw a few author feeds together to
> see what that might look like for the education channel - it's kinda ugly,
> but it works.
>
> http://blozilla.net/mels-opensourcecomeducation-newsroom_3843.html
>
> To paraphrase Karsten: "This is a feed of individual opensource.com author
> blogs to gather some ideas around articles. Think of this as a
> pre-pre-pre-draft — like the whiteboard/corkboard of ideas in a newsroom."
>
> This would *not* be on the front page of opensource.com - these blog posts
> aren't articles, they're not curated or polished. This would be a way for
> potential authors (and editors) to "overhear the conversation." The people
> who write for the edu channel also think about edu stuff all the time, we
> just don't necessarily filter a lot of what we're thinking into "oh, this
> would be good for osdc."
>
> The way I see this working is that it would be linked to from
> http://opensource.com/participate, where people are already interested in
> "peeling back the hood" a bit. Approved authors for a channel could feed in
> (topical) posts from their existing blogs, and so the feed would be a
> gathering of thoughts the other authors are kicking around on a given topic,
> and we'd put a disclaimer at the top that this wasn't official
> opensource.com content, but more a "watching our (awesome) authors think
> out loud" thing.
>
> (shamelessly cribbed from http://planet.sugarlabs.org/):
>
> Planet Opensource.com/education is a collection of personal blogs by
> Education channel contributors to opensource.com. Our authors write about
> what excites them about open source and education; in the spirit of free
> software, we share and criticize—that is how we learn and improve and
> encourage participation by newcomers. Enjoy, and join the conversation.
>
> And then perhaps the following conversations might ensue...
>
> "Ooh, that would actually make a nifty article."
> "Oh, I didn't think of that as an opensource.com article, you're right -
> can you help me rework it?"
> "Wow, three posts on this topic in the same day by three different people.
> Let me ask the opensource.com authors list and see if we can get a summary
> article with all three perspectives."
> "Hey, this is the sort of thing opensource.com authors talk about and how
> they share their ideas? That's not intimidating at all... I could do that,
> and write articles for opensource.com myself."
>
> In terms of more formal implementation, there's a Drupal module that does
> the same thing: http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/aggregator, so this
> would be pretty easy to fold into the existing opensource.com site.
>
> Thoughts? I find this valuable for myself, at least, to hear what other
> authors are thinking - in a way that automatically hits my inbox, instead of
> having to rely on people thinking to push emails to the osdc-edu-authors
> list on a topic.
>
> Would others find this useful?
>
> --Mel
>
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