Re: Putting internal News on docs.ofbiz.org?

[Jacques Le Roux]

Hi Ashish,

The blog is available at http://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/. It's PMC driven as we want to moderate content. But any annouce regarding
OFBiz may be examined by the OFBiz PMC.

Thanks

Jacques

From: "Jacques Le Roux" <[hidden email]>

> +1 for this idea
>
> I have just asked a blog for OFBiz following http://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/roller_installed_for_use_by
> I have also some content for this new OFBiz blog but not really ready for now...
>
> Jacques
>
> From: "Ashish Vijaywargiya" <[hidden email]>
> WDYT for dividing "In the News" section into two sections (For details
> please see my previous email on this) ?
>
> -- Internal News
> -- External News
>
> --
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Ashish Vijaywargiya <
> [hidden email]> wrote:
>
>>  >> planet.ofbiz.apache.org, linked to our own personal various blogs,
>> >> showing ofbiz-tagged messages.
>>
>> I like the idea of planet.* style.
>> Because planet.* is very common pattern to share the thoughts by internal user of project.
>> Thoughts can be related to project or supporting technologies in the market.
>>
>> For ex:
>> http://planet.centos.org/
>> &http://planet.ubuntu.com/
>>
>>
>> I agree on David's comment for using OFBiz docs area (OFBADMIN & Wiki) & would personally like to go with it.
>> But in my opinion we may need to expose these changes to the user visiting to the ofbiz home page to attract and increase his/her
>> involvement in the project.
>> So Here I would like to propose a thought / idea :
>>
>> On the home page(http://ofbiz.apache.org/) we have section titled "In the News".
>> Lets divide section into two parts :
>>
>> 1) Internal News : The links present on this section will go to the page present inside ofbiz docs area (i.e confluence).
>> 2) External News : Will navigate to external resource.
>>
>> Now each section(Internal or External) will contain the 5 min. & 10 max. topic that are recently added.
>> If the limit exceeds(more then 10) then we should add a link (Read More .... ) and this link will redirect to a page on
>> Confluence where we will get all the links of Internal or External Articles. If we like to have two page for Internal & External
>> document then this approach is also fine, I think.
>>
>> Please let us know your thoughts on this.
>> Thanks !
>>
>> --
>> Ashish
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

[Tim Ruppert]

I guess the real question remains how we'll end up using this versus having pages inside of our site.  Heck, do both!  Thanks Jacques.

Cheers,
Tim
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HotWax Media
http://www.hotwaxmedia.com

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----- "Jacques Le Roux" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Ashish,
>
> The blog is available at http://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/. It's PMC
> driven as we want to moderate content. But any annouce regarding
> OFBiz may be examined by the OFBiz PMC.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jacques
>
> From: "Jacques Le Roux" <[hidden email]>
> > +1 for this idea
> >
> > I have just asked a blog for OFBiz following
> http://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/roller_installed_for_use_by
> > I have also some content for this new OFBiz blog but not really
> ready for now...
> >
> > Jacques
> >
> > From: "Ashish Vijaywargiya" <[hidden email]>
> > WDYT for dividing "In the News" section into two sections (For
> details
> > please see my previous email on this) ?
> >
> > -- Internal News
> > -- External News
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Ashish Vijaywargiya <
> > [hidden email]> wrote:
> >
> >>  >> planet.ofbiz.apache.org, linked to our own personal various
> blogs,
> >> >> showing ofbiz-tagged messages.
> >>
> >> I like the idea of planet.* style.
> >> Because planet.* is very common pattern to share the thoughts by
> internal user of project.
> >> Thoughts can be related to project or supporting technologies in
> the market.
> >>
> >> For ex:
> >> http://planet.centos.org/
> >> &http://planet.ubuntu.com/
> >>
> >>
> >> I agree on David's comment for using OFBiz docs area (OFBADMIN &
> Wiki) & would personally like to go with it.
> >> But in my opinion we may need to expose these changes to the user
> visiting to the ofbiz home page to attract and increase his/her
> >> involvement in the project.
> >> So Here I would like to propose a thought / idea :
> >>
> >> On the home page(http://ofbiz.apache.org/) we have section titled
> "In the News".
> >> Lets divide section into two parts :
> >>
> >> 1) Internal News : The links present on this section will go to the
> page present inside ofbiz docs area (i.e confluence).
> >> 2) External News : Will navigate to external resource.
> >>
> >> Now each section(Internal or External) will contain the 5 min. & 10
> max. topic that are recently added.
> >> If the limit exceeds(more then 10) then we should add a link (Read
> More .... ) and this link will redirect to a page on
> >> Confluence where we will get all the links of Internal or External
> Articles. If we like to have two page for Internal & External
> >> document then this approach is also fine, I think.
> >>
> >> Please let us know your thoughts on this.
> >> Thanks !
> >>
> >> --
> >> Ashish
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >