Bob Jamison wrote:
Sounds good. I set up a small "news" area on a friend's site with Wordpress on a typical el-cheapo LAMP box. It was very easy and has a fairly professional appearance.
What's some other peoples take on switching the news page to WordPress or Movable Type?
Also, how hard is it to match up the design to the current site? Or rather maybe update the current site to match a new clean design with letterpress?
I don't want to duplicate effort and definitely don't want to reinvent the wheel. However, we have a good habit in Inkscape of not using tech. that will be hard to update/alter in the future. However, I see the benefits of having this available with the feeds, searchability, and so on in the near future (esp. as these feed specs change). Also, we could have an admin password like we have with the wiki, that several of the developers could have so that news posting doesn't die.
More thoughts from others?
Jon
Jonathan Leighton wrote:
Jon Phillips wrote:
Jonathan Leighton wrote:
How is the new section done at the moment? Looking in the CVS it looks like it is manually updated, but maybe there is a script that does it?
If not, it may be worthwhile considering implementing some form of CMS, which would not only make it way easier to update, but would also come with RSS feeds included (most likely). I'd be happy to implement it if you're interested. The one I'd recommend is WordPress, which I have on my own site too. Whilst it is primarily a blogging application, it can be very, very easily used in a "news" situation too. It comes with a selection of RSS feeds, and XHTML + CSS standards compliance.
Actually, I just started a simple news poster for the site. I'm not sure if we could maintain something like CMS in addition to developing Inkscape. I started buildig a basic user management system for the Open Clip Art Library with user/pass login, etc, and realized it could be simply used to add/edit news from the site, as well as build rss feeds.
Also, I had just planend to transform the news to RSS feed when the site is updated and/or the news is posted to.
My idea was to use WordPress for *just* the news stuff, not the whole site, so it would not take long to get going.
I see two (main) advantages of using it:
- The news would be easier to update -- you just fill in a form in
the admin interface and the details are handled by WordPress. 2) It would automatically mean that a range of RSS feeds are available.
There would be little or no maintenance involved really -- it would take you or I probably an hour or so to implement and then that would be it. The only time maintenance might be required is when WordPress is updated.
I realise if you have already put a lot of work into the current system then maybe it's not something worth pursuing, but I think it should at least be considered.
I would like to setup a planet (like, planet.gnome.org), but for the OSS creative developers (dev. who work on gimp, scribus, inkscape, ocal, etc), so maybe you could help me pull that together? I think that Inkscape is getting to the point as well where it could have its own aggregration of developer's RSS feeds to something like planet.inkscape.org. I just don't want to put too much work on our heads ;)
Yes, that sounds like a very good idea. I'd like to help you with this.
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