Re: [Fsfe-uk] UK Free software website aka resucittating thinkopen/linuxuk

[Rob Bradford]

On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 15:24, MJ Ray wrote:
> Rob:
> > Name: Do we try and reawaken thinkopen.co.uk or would it me more
> > apropriate to have a new name/domain within the org.uk sld?
> 
> Other Way Up (.org.uk) will happen.  I'm more involved with AFFS than I
> intended, so it's taking a lot longer than it should have.  The "Blue Book"
> which is the design and operations gospel is well under way.  The program
> code is also functional, but still needs considerable work.  I'm planning to
> lob some more time at it this weekend.  I'll try to answer the following
> questions so that you can see whether it's a good fit for what you wanted.

Pester me about hosting on my machine, but it might be better to use
something more established like DaCode and co initially. Whatever people
say a weblog is still a good way for presenting news, and chronological
articles. 

> > Aims: Although we all know roughly what the site is aimed at i think it
> > is important we get together some achieveable aims.
> 
> Other Way Up will be whatever people want it to be.  I have certain things
> that I will put on there and there are a few things which I will direct to,
> uh, "more appropriate places", but I'm quite happy for there to be a broad
> range of sections.

I suspect we need to try and do what thinkopen aimed to do, UK
orientated open source news and then build things around that.

> > Content: What do we want, news? features? links? advocacy? articles?
> > Format: Do we want weblog style, a wierd hybrid or something totally
> > new? If we go for a weblog, what software do we choose, or do we write
> > our own?=20
> 
> Yes, everything will be possible, but I intend to take feeds from other
> sites rather than having the "here's a link to site x" type stories and
> concentrate on developing our own articles.  Weblogs will be possible, but
> probably in a different way to traditional ones, as advogato et al are
> already out there serving that market.

When i meant weblog i meant the format, like debianplanet.org with
chronological ordered articles. People seem to have different
understanding of this hazy term. Sorry.
> I'm still interested in taking you up on it.  ;-) You never seem to be alive
> on OPN when I'm there any more, though.  I'd really like to see #affs move
> to a UK-based network, too.  Probably irc.underground.org.uk, but other
> people may have opinions?  Linking my home server to other similarly-minded
> ones is another possibility, or maybe a talker is a better idea anyway.  IRC
> tends to get totally unrelated politics involved and there are far too many
> tin gods out there.
>

I was guenna say the same thing, you dont seem to irc as much :) And do
we really want to use yet another irc network? Just ignore OPN politics,
I do :) 

> How did I do?

10/10! :)
> -- 
> MJR
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Rob 'robster' Bradford
http://robster.org.uk

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