Re: Planet SVG is down

> Hi, Folks-

Hi Doug,


> I own the domain, but it was hosted on Rob Russell's server.  He's had some
> problems with it (I don't know the nature), and he's said he'll get the
> original content to me.

Yeah, I kinda knew that it was something like that, reason why I ended
up sending this to the IG. :-)


>  I expect that I'll probably go back to hosting it
> in a rather stripped-down, easily-maintained form.  What specific features
> should I retain?

To be honest, it feels like all the effort put in (the previously
version available of) planetsvg.com wasn't as well accepted by the
community as we'd like. :-|  Nevertheless, I guess the main team
involved with the site (Rob Russell, Manuel Strehl, Doug, etc.)
definitely deserves an applause! :-)

In terms of features, I'd drop the previously available blog section
(as most people blogging there already have their own blogs anyway). I
really liked svg.org for the wiki thing, and I'd seriously suggest
KISS:
 1. A wiki: I guess many feel comfortable at editing a wiki, specially
if it doesn't require an account but has a good spam bot and content
moderators (probably us, for a start?);
 2. A blog feed aggregation service, for SVG-related blog entries
(kind of Apache Plannet committers [1], but probably filtered by SVG
or similar tags/categories, to avoid getting high volume with little
interesting content) of people blogging about SVG (Doug, Jeff, Shelley
Powers, Sam Ruby, etc.)
 3. A Twitter et. al. (digg.com, identi.ca, etc.) aggregation feed
(better filtered than my primitive search [2] - I guess Jeff has a
better one; I'd suggest filtering Wikimedia content -
upload.wikimedia.org - which has been a source of many potentially low
interest entries in terms of news content), so that one could easily
syndicate and receive a set of interesting stuff (this is tightly
related with the blog-related and might even become part of the same
feed...?
 4. A main blog for important site-related (and SVG-related?)
announcements (I'd expect it to be low volume);

This might already be too many features for a "stripped-down" form,
but I'd really feel like the SVG community already starts to have
enough (?) content, it's just that it's a bit spread. For example, I
have more than a dozen SVG-related RSS feeds in order to be aware of
what's going on and I'm not following many blogs of individuals and I
seriously doubt many will go though the hassle of setting up/tweaking
their feed reader so much as I already did).


> Thanks-
> -Doug

Cheers,
 Helder


[1] http://planet.apache.org/committers/
[2] http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=svg

Received on Sunday, 10 October 2010 07:30:11 UTC