[kde-community] A change of heart

Wed Aug 27 16:34:43 BST 2014

Hi Ben,

Sorry, I very rudely replied to Aaron before you. bbpress as far as I can
remember has sub-forums, if that's what you are referring to? The
compatibility must be OK as it is possible to import from phpBB (
http://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/). We could test it out if you
wanted?

Regarding the multi-site aspect, I hadn't really considered the inclusion
of developer blogs. I was more thinking of having a separate blog for each
KDE project, and have all the relevant links and info for that project on
there. Each project could have it's own theme and identity whilst still
being under the networks umbrella. I think google would like that. There
would be nothing stopping us have a dedicated RSS aggregation blog if
needed, and use one of the many WP plugins there are around for this.

This all needs to be tested really.

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 5:43 AM, David Wright
> <david.wright12886 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes, this platform offers a number of benefits over the current one(s),
> and
> > introduces some basic marketing tools that I feel are badly needed.
> >
> >
> >
> > Really though, the reason I am suggesting this is because as it stands
> the
> > KDE 'community' is really a developer community, not a user one. That
> really
> > needs to change if KDE wants to have more donations, for the obvious
> > reasons. In fact, I was going to write a long piece about moving to a
> social
> > network would attract young users etc, but this really is the key point.
> KDE
> > presents a very corporate and stale image that is not inviting for users
> to
> > participate in, or engage with. You are not going to get mass donations
> > because there is nothing for a user to get emotionally involved with.
>
> In regards to the forum, we already have one at forum.kde.org and it
> is quite active.
>
> I have examined the forum solution they suggest using - bbPress - and
> it is much less featureful than our current forum software, phpBB.
> In addition it does not support nested forums, which we are quite
> dependent on to organise content (we have 51,203 topics with 244,596
> posts at the time of writing this email). It is also questionable
> whether our Sphinx powered RSS feeds could be adapted to work under
> BuddyPress.
>
> Further, there are likely social problems with being a hoster for
> everyone's blogs (which is why it is planetkde.org not planet.kde.org)
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> >
> >
> > David Wright
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
> >
> >
> > On Monday 25 Aug 2014 14:32:33 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> >
> >> +1 for Reply-By-Email! Forum.kde.org's "anonymous" notification can
> >
> >> depress users that are AFK...
> >
> >>
> >
> >> On 25 August 2014 13:53, David Wright <david.wright12886 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> > I did send this originally to the kde-www address but I thought I'd
> send
> >> > it
> >
> >> > here as well for a bit of fun.
> >
> >> >
> >
> >> > Kind regards,
> >
> >> >
> >
> >> > David
> >
> >> >
> >
> >> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >
> >> > From: <david.wright12886 at gmail.com>
> >
> >> > Date: 17 Aug 2014 00:24
> >
> >> > Subject: A change of heart
> >
> >> > To: "kde-www" <kde-www at kde.org>
> >
> >> > Cc:
> >
> >> >
> >
> >> > Hi guys,
> >
> >> >
> >
> >> > I've been doing a bit of research lately on CMS's and stumbled across
> >
> >> > http://commonsinabox.org/ which is basically a bundled buddypress
> plugin
> >
> >> > which powers http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/ amogest other.
> >
> >> >
> >
> >> > Given the social nature of this setup, and the fact it is built upon
> >
> >> > wordpress
> >
> >> > (it is basically a set of wordpress plugins that have been tested
> >> > together),
> >
> >> > I
> >
> >> > felt that this might be something that KDE might like to take under
> >
> >> > consideration?
> >
> >> >
> >
> >> > A standard install would include forums, groups, collaborative docs,
> >> > social
> >
> >> > @
> >
> >> > mentions, user profiles etc, etc.
> >
> >> >
> >
> >> > Also, using the multi user aspect of wordpress it would still allow
> >> > certain
> >
> >> > projects to keep their identity, but remain under the networks
> umbrella,
> >> > as
> >
> >> > evidenced by: http://helpwanted.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
> >
> >> >
> >
> >> > Naturally, being exposed then to the wordpress plugin ecosphere would
> >> > allow
> >
> >> > then a better integrated events management, job board, even a store if
> >
> >> > desired.
> >
> >> >
> >
> >> > Ultimately though, the goal is to increase funding. The KDE websphere
> is
> >> > too
> >
> >> > spread out, and this would help reign it in so we can really do
> focused
> >
> >> > funding campaigns on users. That would be the advantage of the groups,
> >> > as we
> >
> >> > could tailor funding drives to particular interests and hopefully have
> >
> >> > better
> >
> >> > success.
> >
> >> >
> >
> >> > Administration might also be made easier as we could get rid of a fair
> >> > few
> >
> >> > subdomains by moving to this kind of platform.
> >
> >> >
> >
> >> > Anyway, it's late, and I'm jabbering. Let me know what you think!
> >
> >> >
> >
> >> > :-)
> >
> >> >
> >
> >> > ps
> >
> >> >
> >
> >> > There is also a buddypress app that could be rebranded:
> >
> >> > https://github.com/yuttadhammo/buddydroid
> >
> >> >
> >
> >> > Mozilla were also working on bugzilla intergration a while back:
> >
> >> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643570
> >
> >> >
> >
> >> >
> >
> >> >
> >
> >> >
> >
> >> >
> >
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> >
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> >
> >>
> >
> >>
> >
> >> --
> >
> >> regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
> >
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> >
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