[penguicon-general] Calling for any/all PostCon write-ups

[Matt Arnold]

Aaron,

I'm glad you asked, because it's for a very important reason.

We want more participation in creating what Rob called the "heartbeat"
of the site in constantly adding announcements, commentary, and other
content. Penguicon has learned through years of tough experience that
the way to get that is to not force people to use a new system, and
especially not a clunky one that they dislike. I've configured the
site to gather content from multiple systems that people already use
and like, such as Livejournal and Wordpress. They can just stick with
what they're doing, and it will harvest from all those sources and
present it on the front page.

Running the site on Wordpress offers the functionality with which to
control the look and feel of the site with a sidebar and static pages.
It lacks the gigantic bloat, learning curve, awkward editing
interface, and layout-inflexibility of a Content Management System
such as Drupal, Joomla or Plone. It also offers the admin the ability
to control which content posts are aggregated and which ones are left
off.

-Matt


On 4/26/07, Aaron Thul <aaron at chasingnuts.com> wrote:
> Ok I just have to ask, why would you put up a Wordpress site then make it
> present another blog site? The whole point of  Wordpress is to host your
> blog. Using it to syndicate another blog seems kinda funny to me.
>
>
> Aaron
>
>
> On 4/26/07, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ron,
> >
> > The blog doesn't do what we need it to do. It's no different from the
> > news items.
> >
> > I'm grateful to have had the existing website which has nobly served
> > our convention for a couple of years. But they were an educational
> > couple of years, after which I feel it's time to put what we've
> > learned into practice and separate the concom conrunning "back end"
> > from the publicity and marketing "front end".
> >
> > I could go into more detail, but would rather give an audiovisual
> > presentation in person. Chuck Child and I have asked Gerald for a
> > meeting with me and you about future of the website, where I'll
> > present a new site that I built in Wordpress in a test subdomain of my
> > own domain, with our Livejournal embedded in it.
> >
> > -Matt
> >
> >
> > On 4/25/07, Ron Blanchett <rrcb21 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > We have a blogging module installed on the website.
> > > You just have to log in go to your member folder and create the blog.
> > > After creating the blog then you make posts to it.
> > > Once the blog entries are published then they become part of the "Blog"
> > > folder that is part of the site navigation.
> > >
> > > If anyone wants instructions on how to do the above email me
> > >
> > > -Ron
> > > Penguicon Webdude
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----
> > > From: Rob Landley <rob at landley.net>
> > > To: penguicon-general at penguicon.org
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 3:25:15 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [penguicon-general] Calling for any/all PostCon write-ups
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 24 April 2007 12:23 pm, Wolfger wrote:
> > > > On 4/24/07, Matt Arnold < matt.mattarn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > I found setting Google Alerts for "penguicon" to be a good source of
> > > > > con reports as well. However, by the time I woke up, all of the URLs
> > > > > in my Google Alert emails had already been posted to this mailing
> > > > > list. Good job, folks-- you beat Google!
> > > >
> > > > Uh... They beat you waking up, not necessarily Google. ;-) That's a
> > > > cool idea, though. Next year I'll have to set a Google alert for
> > > > instant updates on "Penguicon". Hmm. Up-to-the-minute con report lists
> > > > in the computer room, anyone? Could be interesting!
> > >
> > > Year 1, I posted a couple of entries to the con blog from the con.  (The
> may 2
> > > and 3 entries in
> http://www.penguicon.org/php/pc1/news.shtml .)
> > >
> > > A "heartbeat" blog serves multiple purposes. :)
> > >
> > > Rob
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