[Announcement] www.kdedevelopers.org

[Ian Reinhart Geiser]

Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:01:10 -0400
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Greetings,
Im pleased to announce to the KDE Developers http://www.kdedevelopers.org.

After I setup my companies new web server, we found we had some extra CPU a=
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bandwidth to burn.    I took this opportunity to setup a weblog for KDE=20
Developers in hopes that we could have a central area for all KDE developer=
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to have a central place to keep them.  This service is currently only=20
available to anyone who is a KDE contributer.  Im working on a script to=20
import kde-accounts accounts in, but currently its easier just to let=20
interested users create accounts.  The idea here, is that this is mainly fo=
r=20
KDE contributers.  I have no plans to open this up to users at this point.

The big goal here is to provide a central place for KDE Developers to keep=
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journals of ideas, and to think out loud.  Comments will be allowed by gues=
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users for now, but are going to be moderated, and turned off if there are t=
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many trolls.  This site by no means is meant to compete or replace the Dot,=
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or any other KDE news site, but to generate content for these news sites.  =
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personal goal with this site is to allow some transparency to KDE developme=
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without cluttering the lists with raw ideas that are not quite ready for=20
prime time.  Here we can post them, discuss them, let them mature, and then=
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move on to the lists.    One other goal of this site is to provide=20
development journals for developers who wish to share their progress on the=
ir=20
projects.

=46eatures:
	* Drupal support BloggerAPI so any bloggerapi client should work with it. =
 I=20
am working on a KDE front end currently, and debugging a WAP interface too.=
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The URL for this is http://www.kdedevelopers.org/xmlrpc.php
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	* There is a rich text editor for the text edit dialogs.  It currently wor=
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in IE and safari.  Ideally this means it will work in KDE someday too.

	The database is backed differentially on a nightly basis, and a full backu=
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is done once a month.  This should keep the risk of dataloss minimal.
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	* Each user is allowed to upload 5mb of 1mb images for use in posts or ima=
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galleries.

	* RSS feeds are available for pretty much every page.  RSS feeds can be pe=
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user, or for all blogs as an example.  Since these are cached they are pret=
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light and I encourage them to be used.

	* Polls are supported by every user.  They are moderated by the other user=
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and given enough votes it will appear on the front page.

	* Stories like polls are created by any user but are moderated to the fron=
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page.  Developers are encouraged to write stories about new projects they a=
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working on, ideas and code.  As these become more refined and ready for the=
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front page, other sites like dot.kde.org and freekde.org can pick them up. =
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The goal there is not to replace these sites but provide them with much mor=
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content.

	* Static pages are special.  These are reserved for content that is always=
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going to be a part of www.kdedevelopers.org.  These must be moderated also,=
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and cannot be finally posted without administrator permission.

Limitations:
	* Currently this site is being fed by a 1.5Mb down, 768kb up DSL feed.  I=
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have the virtual server throttled at 128kbs to keep my main site from getti=
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killed.  Currently ive seen no problems with this, but im keeping an eye on=
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it.

	* Migrations to drupal from other blog systems is cumbersome at best. =20
Ideally this will get easier as time goes on, but its on the back burner fo=
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now.

	* There is probably other stuff I have forgotten but as it comes to light =
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will be posted.

With that out of the way please check out:=20
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/user/register and create yourself a new accoun=
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if you don't have one already.

It takes anywhere from 15minutes to 24 hours for accounts to become active,=
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don't panic if it takes a while, just try back in a few minutes.

Also the standard disclaimer.  These views on this site are not meant as a=
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reflection of KDE policy.  These are the views of each individual KDE=20
developer and are to be take as such. =20

Cheers
	-ian reinhart geiser
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