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 > > > > -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list > +1 for drupal. it have powerful multi-user blog abilities. Also we can use voting system to submit posts on front page. -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
