[LinuxBIOS] Planet LinuxBIOS?

[Uwe Hermann]

Hi,

just a quick question - does any one of you blog somewhat regularly,
especially about LinuxBIOS? I do sometimes, and intend to do so more
often in future. If there are a few people out there, it would be nice
to set up a "Planet" which aggregates all LinuxBIOS-related blog posts
of LB developers/users in one place, similar to other planets, e.g.

* Planet Debian: http://planet.debian.org/
* Planet Apache: http://www.planetapache.org/
* Planet GNOME: http://planet.gnome.org/
etc. etc.

These places tend to draw quite some attention after a while, as they
provide a single place where lots of news/content about a certain
project ot topic can easily be found.

I think such a Planet would be a nice way to increase the exposure to
the public and make LinuxBIOS more well-known in the (Internet) world.
Couple that with a short announcement on Slashdot and you're set for a
few weeks in terms of publicity :)

As for software, there are several possibilities to set it up, e.g.
 * "Planet Planet" (http://www.planetplanet.org/)
 * Some CMSs which support that (e.g. http://www.drupal.org)
 * maybe there's even a Wikimedia plugin for this(?)

Comments?

Uwe.

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Uwe Hermann  [060913 18:55]:
> just a quick question - does any one of you blog somewhat regularly,
> especially about LinuxBIOS? I do sometimes, and intend to do so more
> often in future. If there are a few people out there, it would be nice
> to set up a "Planet" which aggregates all LinuxBIOS-related blog posts
> of LB developers/users in one place, similar to other planets, e.g.

I can set up a blog here if people are interested. Though I am not sure
what the advantage over mailing list and wiki is. Can you please explain 
this a little bit?
> Couple that with a short announcement on Slashdot and you're set for a
> few weeks in terms of publicity :)

Dunno. Slashdot has been consequently ignoring me in the last couple of
months wrt LinuxBIOS activities.

Stefan

[Uwe Hermann]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 01:56:10PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> I can set up a blog here if people are interested. Though I am not sure
> what the advantage over mailing list and wiki is. Can you please explain 
> this a little bit?

I'm not thinking about a single blog; the point is to have an aggregated
"Planet" which collects blog posts of many different developers (who all
have their own blog).

Take Planet Debian (http://planet.debian.org/) as an example. If you're
interested in Debian, you don't want to go hunting around for weblogs of
individual developers, which would take ages and you'd miss some.

The Planet provides one central place where blog posts by Debian developers
are collected, which is nice. You can simply subscribe to one RSS feed
and you're set. As a whole I'm sure it draws more attention than the single
developer blogs alone.

A similar place for LinuxBIOS would probably be nice (as an addition).
It should not replace the mailing-list or the wiki, which contain
development discussions or documentation, but it's a rather nice add-on.
> Dunno. Slashdot has been consequently ignoring me in the last couple of
> months wrt LinuxBIOS activities.

Hm, strange... but there were several Slashdot articles in the past,
right?

Uwe.

[Peter Stuge]

On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 02:01:44AM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> I'm not thinking about a single blog; the point is to have an
> aggregated "Planet" which collects blog posts of many different
> developers (who all have their own blog).

I don't think many LB developers have blogs.

I for one don't like blogs at all, but that's just me, I'm
conservative, or something. :)

//Peter

[Richard Smith]

On 9/16/06, Peter Stuge  wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 02:01:44AM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> > I'm not thinking about a single blog; the point is to have an
> > aggregated "Planet" which collects blog posts of many different
> > developers (who all have their own blog).
>
> I don't think many LB developers have blogs.
>
> I for one don't like blogs at all, but that's just me, I'm
> conservative, or something. :)

I don't blog either.  Takes too damn long to write everything up.  I'd
rather spend that time hacking code or writing some good user
documentation.  Perhaps if I spent some time to increase my typing
speed.

However, I'm all for the project.  Just cause I'm blog challenged
dosen't mean the concept sucks.  I end up reading a lot of blogs while
searching for stuff and find them quite useful.

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Richard Smith wrote:
> On 9/16/06, Peter Stuge  wrote:
> > I for one don't like blogs at all, but that's just me, I'm
> > conservative, or something. :)
>
> I don't blog either.  Takes too damn long to write everything up.  I'd
> rather spend that time hacking code or writing some good user
> documentation.  Perhaps if I spent some time to increase my typing
> speed.

I don't blog because I think there are too many people taking
themself too seriously and I don't want to join them.
What about podcasts? Typing speed is not an issue there.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel