- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 13:02:15 -0400
- To: Public SVG IG <public-svg-ig@w3.org>
Hi, Helder- Helder Magalhães wrote (on 10/10/10 3:29 AM): > > Yeah, I kinda knew that it was something like that, reason why I ended > up sending this to the IG. :-) There's another thread going on in SVG-Developers, which has a higher participation. >> 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). Agreed. > 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?); Ok, I can set up a mediawiki instance. I'm not up on the latest spambots, and the only way I know to limit spam is an account, but I can set up OpenID access. I'm pretty sure it shouldn't be a problem to port over the old wiki content... I don't know if I still have it handy in mediawiki form, I trust Rob does. > 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.) What software do people recommend? > 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...? Can someone look into how to best manage this, with what software and what filters? > 4. A main blog for important site-related (and SVG-related?) > announcements (I'd expect it to be low volume); Easy enough to set up. > This might already be too many features for a "stripped-down" form, It's fine... if we can get people with time to maintain it. > 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). Since you've already gone through the trouble of doing this, do you want to take charge of the aggregation task? Regards- -Doug Schepers W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs
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