Re: news.fedoraproject.org

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On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Sudheer <sudheer.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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