[gobolinux-users] Awesome redesign of the site

[Hisham Muhammad]

On 10/15/06, Rayne Van-Dunem <raynenamibia at gmail.com> wrote:
> I could. A Blogspot is easy and free to set up (although, if you want to
> have it on Gobolinux's servers, there's always Wordpress).

A service like Blogspot would probably be easiest. Sure, if the need
arises, we can host it ourselves.

> I lurk around the mailing lists (which is why this is my first post), so I
> could probably rundown many of the week's events, although it would help to
> have someone else compile any missing bits of info.

Yeah, doing this kind of thing collectively is always better.
Unfortunately I'm buried with too much stuff already so I don't think
I can commit to this in a regular basis, but I can of course answer
questions to fill in any missing detail, etc.

> I'm thinking "GoboBlog" @ gobolinux.blogspot.com or something like that.
> What do you think?

Well, I think it's a great initiative! :) If you're asking about the
name, well, looking at the name of the distro itself you can see we're
not the best people on picking names, so I'll leave the name of the
blog up to you. ;)

Jokes aside, doing it in a 'weekly newsletter' format is probably a
nice choice, because that way it can be linked by places such as
distrowatch.com (which is always a good source of hits to the website
whenever we're mentioned there).

Thanks!

-- Hisham

> On 10/15/06, Hisham Muhammad <hisham.hm at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/15/06, Rayne Van-Dunem <raynenamibia at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > BTW, is a Gobolinux blog in order? Or better yet, a
> > > Planet<http://www.planetplanet.org/>
> > > ?
> >
> > That would be really really nice, but I fear we simply don't have
> > enough content for this. We don't have a lot of developers, and I
> > don't think many of them do blog.
> >
> > > Just wondering, since it would be nice for others to subscribe to the
> > latest
> > > anecdotes on Gobolinux development by means other than just mailing
> > lists.
> > > All of the big distros (from Debian to Arch) have planets, or at least
> > > weeklies (like Gentoo.org <http://www.gentoo.org/> does), to subscribe
> > to
> > > (alongside the traditional mailing lists, forums and IRC channels).
> >
> > At this point, I think a weekly newsletter would be ideal! I thought
> > about this a while ago and even talked to Lucas about it. It's good
> > exposure for the distro as well. Trouble is, as usual, who's gonna
> > take the time to write it. :) A summary of what went on during the
> > week probably wouldn't be that hard to compile, based on the mailing
> > lists.
> >
> > > Just a thought. In advance, I've subscribed to your's and Lucas' LJs
> > through
> > > Google Reader.
> >
> > We're two very lazy bloggers. :)
> >
> > -- Hisham
> >
> > > On 10/15/06, Hisham Muhammad <hisham.hm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 10/15/06, Rayne Van-Dunem <raynenamibia at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > That happened yesterday, right?
> > > >
> > > > Yes. I had it laying around for a while but I made some major tweaks
> > > > last night to get it to a "publishable" state.
> > > >
> > > > > Overall, it is a good deal more readable, since the old site's
> > banner
> > > > > (while sufficient) was taking up more than (IMO) its fill of the
> > page.
> > > >
> > > > Thank you. :) It wasn't easy to let the old design go, since it's been
> > > > with us for so many years now, but I took a screenshot to keep in my
> > > > archives. :)
> > > >
> > > > > And is this in preparation for 013?
> > > >
> > > > Yes. :) We thought it would be better to put the redesign up a few
> > > > days before releasing it so that we could find and fix its quirks
> > > > before the site gets the (hopeful) bigger traffic hit of a new
> > > > release.
> > > >
> > > > So, if anybody finds broken links, incorrect information, etc...
> > > > please let us know!
> > > >
> > > > And again, thanks a lot for the nice words. :)
> > > >
> > > > -- Hisham
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