Hi Jon, William Jon McCann wrote:
I think we'd be a little put off if mailing lists, wikis, bugs, or IRC conversations were conducted in many languages at the same time. For these we've adopted a lingua franca. I propose we do the same for the "default" Fedora Planet feed.
Many multilingual posters post both in their native tongue and also provide an English translation on the bottom. What do you think about those posts and their appropriateness for the main planet feed?
As an American I worry because I know in other places being multilingual is far more common and folks from such places are part of our community. I think what might be nice is across any planets we have, to have a sticky control where you check off the languages that you are interested in, and you can check off more than one so if I want to read both English and Spanish posts on the same page I can. And that setting could be sticky / controlled by cookie so I ever only have to click it once per computer I read from. (would be nice if the rss URL presented would be modified to match my in-page language settings as well.) What do you think about that idea?
Also, should there even be a main planet feed? Maybe we've outgrown it, same as we obviously outgrew the barcamp process at FUDcon Toronto (a good thing, so many awesome talks!) Maybe we could re-envision the planet as multiple sub-plants that could kind of mirror the topics of the major mailing lists, and the front page could be a dashboard of what's going on underneath - kinda like the front page of news.google?
Then... maybe I'm going too nuts here.... but we could take a feed from Fedora Insight, which is going to be edited / high-quality content, post that up front and center... then have the individual topical planet feeds in two or three columns underneath organized by category. Like the latest 2 or 3 posts from each topic maybe...
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