[gobolinux-users] Awesome redesign of the site

[Rayne Van-Dunem]

....And now Gobolinux has a blog. <http://gobolinux.blogspot.com>

Rayne

On 10/15/06, Hisham Muhammad < hisham.hm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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