news.fedoraproject.org

[Sudheer]

Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> Evening all,
>
> We've been talking for a while about setting up a news.fedoraproject.org
> site, for a number of different uses. Thanks to the hard work of Frank
> Chiulli we now have a test install of Lyceum on publictest 1 for our use :)
> Before moving forward with this, we need to deal with a number of issues:
>
> 1) What do we actually want to use the site for?
>
> My thoughts are that we use it for Fedora Weekly News, along with other
> marketing stuff such as interviews and announcements - similar to what
> press.redhat.com is.
>
> 2) Depending on the above, do we want to use Lyceum or Wordpress? Infra
> would like us to have whatever solution we use packaged and yumable on
> Fedora; Wordpress is already in while Lyceum needs packaging. As I
> understand it Lyceum allows us to have multiple blogs and is what's used by
> Red Hat Magazine. Wordpress only allows for the one blog, but would also
> allow multiple authors/editors on a single blog (I think). 
>
>   
I recommend Drupal. It provides multi user blog and whole lot of other 
features.
> 3) Experiment and play - find a work flow that's right for us! We may need
> some test material for this, such as an example FWN release or a mock
> announcement.
>
> 4) We need a theme. I've started on one, and whatever we create for
> Wordpress should also work on Lyceum, though we've had some problems with
> this! If you're interested to see what I've got so far,
> test.questionsplease.org will let you :) I can make this available for
> people to use as a base. All I've done is create a simple Wordpress
> template that uses the ids and classes from fedora.css, and point at that
> for the style sheet. I'll upload this to my fedorapeople space soon...
>
>   
I would be glad to help set-up Drupal for news.fedoraproject.org.
> Anyone is welcome to sign up and we can start adding people in different
> roles to the Fedora News blog I created in Lyceum, but the URL for the
> install is on another box...Rahul, Frank, can you help me out here?
>
> I think that's all for now. Does anybody have any thoughts or ideas about
> this? Ah, and finally, could we keep all replies to the marketing list, if
> people think that's appropriate? Better to do everything once than 5 times!
>
>
> Best wishes, and sorry for all the stuff I've probably forgotten!
>
> Jon
>
>   
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Sudheer. S
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