[openstack-dev] [all] Community managed tech/dev blog: Call for opinions and ideas

Joshua Harlow harlowja at fastmail.com
Mon Nov 27 20:01:59 UTC 2017


How does one get a login or submit things to openstack.org/blog?

Is there any editor actively seeking out things (and reviewing) for 
folks to write (a part time job I would assume?).

Josh

Allison Price wrote:
> I agree with Jimmy that openstack.org/blog <http://openstack.org/blog>
> would be a great location for content like this, especially since the
> main piece of content is the OpenStack-dev ML digest that Mike creates
> weekly. Like Flavio mentioned, Superuser is another resource we can
> leverage for tutorials or new features. Both the blog and Superuser are
> Wordpress, enabling contributions from anyone with a login and content
> to share.
>
> Superuser and the OpenStack blog is already syndicated with Planet
> OpenStack for folks who have already subscribed to the Planet OpenStack
> feed.
>
> Allison
>
> Allison Price
> OpenStack Foundation Marketing
> allison at openstack.org <mailto:allison at openstack.org>
>
>
>
>> On Nov 27, 2017, at 1:44 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlowja at fastmail.com
>> <mailto:harlowja at fastmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Doug Hellmann wrote:
>>> Excerpts from Joshua Harlow's message of 2017-11-27 10:54:02 -0800:
>>>> Flavio Percoco wrote:
>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>>
>>>>> Last Thursday[0], at the TC office hours, we brainstormed a bit around
>>>>> the idea
>>>>> of having a tech blog. This idea came first from Joshua Harlow and it
>>>>> was then
>>>>> briefly discussed at the summit too.
>>>>>
>>>>> The idea, we have gathered, is to have a space where the community
>>>>> could
>>>>> write
>>>>> technical posts about OpenStack. The idea is not to have an aggregator
>>>>> (that's
>>>>> what our planet[1] is for) but a place to write original and curated
>>>>> content.
>>>>> During the conversation, we argued about what kind of content would be
>>>>> acceptable for this platform. Here are some ideas of things we could
>>>>> have there:
>>>>>
>>>>> - Posts that are dev-oriented (e.g: new functions on an oslo lib)
>>>>> - Posts that facilitate upstream development (e.g: My awesome dev
>>>>> setup)
>>>>> - Deep dive into libvirt internals
>>>>> - ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>> As Chris Dent pointed out on that conversation, we should avoid
>>>>> making this
>>>>> place a replacement for things that would otherwise go on the mailing
>>>>> list -
>>>>> activity reports, for example. Having dev news in this platform, we
>>>>> would
>>>>> overlap with things that go already on the mailing list and, arguably,
>>>>> we would
>>>>> be defeating the purpose of the platform. But, there might be room for
>>>>> both(?)
>>>>>
>>>>> Ultimately, we should avoid topics promoting new features in
>>>>> services as
>>>>> that's what
>>>>> superuser[2] is for.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, what are your thoughts about this? What kind of content would you
>>>>> rather
>>>>> have posted here? Do you like the idea at all?
>>>> Yes, I like it :)
>>>>
>>>> I want a place that is like http://blog.kubernetes.io/
>>>>
>>>> With say an editor that solicits (and backlogs topics and stories and
>>>> such) various developers/architects at various companies and creates a
>>>> actually human curated place for developers and technology and
>>>> architecture to be spot-lighted.
>>>>
>>>> To me personal blogs can be used for this, sure, but that sort of misses
>>>> the point of having a place that is targeted for this (and no I don't
>>>> really care about finding and subscribing to 100+ random joe blogs that
>>>> I will never look at more than once). Ideally that place would not
>>>> become `elitist` as some others have mentioned in this thread (ie, don't
>>>> pick an elitist editor? lol).
>>>>
>>>> The big desire for me is to actually have a editor (a person or people)
>>>> involved that is keeping such a blog going and editing it and curating
>>>> it and ensuring it gets found in google searches and is *developer*
>>>> focused...
>>>
>>> Are you volunteering? :-)
>>
>> You don't want me to be an editor ;)
>>
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>
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