Alan Horkan wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, MenTaLguY wrote:
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 18:22:46 -0400 From: MenTaLguY <mental@...3...> To: Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> Cc: Jonathan Leighton <turnip@...583...>, inkscape-devel inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Blogs for Inkscape contributers (mainly SoC)
I get the impression you also intend hosting the journals themselves but I would recommend against that for various reasons.
Just for those people who don't have journal hosting otherwise. People are encouraged to use their existing journals if they have one.
Futher to that I want to encourage people to sign up to places like Livejournal (or Blogger, although it is not open source it is a good service). It helps make them part of a larger community and can be very helpful if they want to do things like allow comments to only registered users. If they lose interest in Inkscape at some point for whatever reason (developers move on to other projects all the time) in the future they might prefer if their journal were hosted elsewhere.
I thought I had more reasons than that but I forget. If you want to provide the service and leave the decision is up to them then fair enough.
I personally feel we're doing them a favour giving them WordPress, because (im speaking from experience) it is far, far superior to both Blogger and LJ. At the end of the day it's the person's choice, and we're not dictating where they have their blog (if at all), but just providing the service should they need/want it.