Re: Planet SVG is down

Hi Doug,


>> 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 was referring to reporting the fact that planetsvg.com was down, but
thanks for the info: I haven't been able to catch up with everything
happening, but I'll take a look. :-)


>> 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.

Something like a math test or a (re)captcha [1] for whoever isn't
logged in would be simple enough IMO. Anyone with an account would be
trusted, I guess. :-)


>>  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...?
[...]
>> 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?

Yeah, I'll take care of that. I guess I can provide some selection of
SVG-filtered blogs and try to improve my Twitter-based filter
(probably based in Jeff's) and a few more heuristics to avoid the
"flooding" caused by Wikipedia uploads and the confusion with other
"SVG"s.


> Regards-
> -Doug Schepers
> W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs

Cheers,
 Helder


[1] http://www.google.com/recaptcha

Received on Sunday, 10 October 2010 20:31:34 UTC