isforinsects__: ffm asked if the zine was up and if we should use it - olpczine.org ffm: it's been like that for over a week. isforinsects__: I ask per the topic "http://www.olpczine.org/ suggestions welcome. Editors please register." And feel free to poke around in it. But we're not ready to go live with it until next week IMO I am all free next week isforinsects__: is it possible for me to import my blogger posts? So I will be dumping a lot of time into it. ffm: do your sub blog yes, and from there we can import individual blogs to the main Zine isforinsects__: so where will my posts appear? (I need what I blog to be viewable, even outside the zine) if they aren't imported into the zine? ffm: it's set up so each user *can* have their own sub domain. But from my limited amount of poking around, its looking like Drupal was the wrong way to go. isforinsects__: can subdomains be redirects? isforinsects__: for instance, mel.olpczine.org --> blog.melchua.com/olpc or something with apache handling url rewrites isforinsects__: convert to wordpress then? better now then when we have 500 posts... that way "other blogging platforms are supported" ;) * Ian_Daniher (n=Ian@cpe-24-166-250-156.cinci.res.rr.com) has joined #olpc-support-gang ffm: i'm not sure if that would be an acceptable solution for your blogger issue mchua_: I'd like to move away from blogger. but we can easily pull everyone into a planet, or everyone's sub-feed (with posts we tag as Really Good) into a metafeed ffm: right, but "move away from blogger" doesn't have to mean "move onto olpczine installation" - you can move to wordpress.com, etc ffm: +1 for "move away from blogger" though mchua_: non elegant and non support so far did that myself a few months back g'morning all mchua_: there are ways to import to wordpress, and some hackish ways to import to drupal. +1 to snowdays Ian_Daniher: morning. Same here. +1 ffm: oh yes, I know - just throwing it out as another possible "implementation option" g'morning, Ian_Daniher isforinsects__: non-elegant? what are your objections? :) isforinsects: I read scrollback on your convo about your silos isforinsects__: the goal is to provide volunteers with a blog under an official-lookin' domain type thingy, right? isforinsects__: that doesn't have to mean "We All Use Drupal." isforinsects: so many good uses mchua_: they (teachers) want something we don't host ourselves, due to "oh then we have to constantly keep it open". mchua_ the goal in my opinion is to have an actual community blog/zine on the front page. isforinsects__: +1 Volunteers and contributors and even kids can have subdomains to host their blogs. ffm: right, those folks can use drupal if they want, or something else mchua_: and hosting is the easiest way to do so. Which is a very robust, and complete system under wordpress. ffm: right. i'm not saying hosting == bad, just that hosting != only option. isforinsects__: he does have a point. we need to provide options for those who hate it. The multi user and multi domain system under drupal does not look like it will scale. isforinsects__: *hate wordpress. what's wrong with wordpress? isforinsects__: well at least mod_security is already installed. isforinsects__: nothing, I like it, but not everyone shares my opinion. vi vs emas. isforinsects__: I personally adore wordpress, but I know very, very accomplished hackers that loathe it like the fury *emacs isforinsects__: they wrote their own blog software, etc. want something minimalistic, hackable, security, whatever. isforinsects__: like ffm said, vi vs emacs. Excuse my abreviation, but LOL. My audience is hardly hackers. isforinsects__: and OSS is all about choice - so if we can give people choice with a simple apache redirect, why not? isforinsects__: oh, I know. but nontech users vary in their love/hate of platforms, too. The entire point of this domain is because the non-hackers don't have enough of a voice. * ttuttle (n=tom@pdpc/supporter/student/gentoo.contributor.ttuttle) has joined #olpc-support-gang isforinsects__: And giving them an easy path to get a blog is Good. The only thing I'm saying is don't make that path the only one. ttuttle: what's your opinion on the subject? mchua_: http://www.electronics-lab.com/blog/?p=1224 ttuttle: I'll pastebin the scrollback if you want. mchua: and I disagree again, this isn't about choice. There needs to be active policing of this domain for obvious spam. People using it for complete non-olpc purposes These need to be excluded in some way. ffm: What was the question? isforinsects__: you'll still have to apply for a domain. your feed will still be pulled, and watched. you can cut off someone's domain, their info flow *into* the zine, at any time. If it's whether blogs on olpczine should have other stuff -- no. They should be OLPC only. ttuttle: should we give out subdomains as redirects . ffm: NO!