Blog addition to "Community blogs" section www.kde.org

[Mario Fux]

Am Tuesday 03 November 2015, 11.44:11 schrieb Ken Vermette:
> 'Ello!

Morning Ken

> When it comes to the content of the KDE.org homepage, I'm not 100% sure
> what will be on the revised version... I have my own vision for what needs
> to be on there, but I'll want approval before doing anything in case my
> ideas are disagreeable. I do want to shed some of the less focused elements
> (like forum posts), combine others, etc. I would like to present a combined
> news/announcement ticker and keep the Planet ticker on the homepage though;
> I personally would give them full-width treatment and possibly excerpts,
> placed just above the patrons. I'm not a super-fan of that sidebar - if
> something is worth being on the homepage, it has to be worth being done
> right. I like the news/blog posts because it's relevant, from respected
> figures, up-to-date, and not random garble like the 5 most recent forum
> posts. :P
> 
> Right now I'm working on modular pieces which will form the header,
> sub-header, footer, copyright, a couple recyclables, etc. Things which can
> be inserted into existing pages to at least begin making things more
> consistent. I haven't had the time I'd like to work on them, but I've
> recently put some personal projects on hold which will clear up my schedule
> a bit so I have more than an hour or two a week to actually nail this stuff
> down. The modular pieces are drop-in for any *remotely* sane skinnable
> system, and they'll pull extended content from a designated source
> (probably cdn.kde.org, or something like it) with minimal boilerplate.
> 
> Once I have the modular parts all together I'll be putting together a few
> static pages showing everything in action, mostly for high-profile pages
> which themselves are mostly static - such as the Plasma Desktop page. If it
> all looks and works well, I'll slap together a porting guide (using the
> modular pages) and see if we can start by unifying the KDE.org primary
> navigation wherever possible. We'll also start committing centralised parts
> to the CDN. We can focus on content later, but I think getting from A to B
> will be an important first step. While we start adding the modular
> components to existing pages, we'll populate the navigation while examining
> our link rot issue, and decide what will be linked in the main nav.
> 
> I hope that's what you were looking for. ;)

Thanks a lot for your extended and very interesting answer. Looking forward to 
your work.

On the other hand is it ok for you and others if I add myself to the kde.org 
Community Section atm as I just started a blog series which could and should 
be of interest to a broader KDE audience:
blogs.fsfe.org/mario

thx
Mario

> Cheers;
>  - Ken
> 
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 5:21 AM, Mario Fux <kde-ml at unormal.org> wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2015, 12.47:50 schrieb Mario Fux:
> > > Good morning
> > 
> > Morning again
> > 
> > > Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to this list.
> > 
> > Still CCing, please.
> > 
> > > As I'm currently writing my blog series "My Wishion for KDE" I'd like to
> > 
> > see
> > 
> > > them too on www.kde.org and I've even a patch ready locally but I'd
> > 
> > like to
> > 
> > > have a go for it before I commit.
> > > 
> > > Can anybody give a go?
> > 
> > Ping.
> > 
> > And this time CCing kver: will this blog collection be a part of the new
> > kde.org page and what's the status of the new page?
> > 
> > grits
> > Mario
> > 
> > > Thanks
> > > Mario
> > > 
> > > Patch:
> > > diff --git a/users_conf.php b/users_conf.php
> > > index 527baf2..79f5bc4 100755
> > > --- a/users_conf.php
> > > +++ b/users_conf.php
> > > @@ -290,6 +290,22 @@ $kde_contributors =array(
> > > 
> > >    'facebook'=>'sayakban',
> > >    'kdesupportingmember'=>false,
> > >    'gitoriousaccount'=>'sayakb'
> > > 
> > > +),
> > > +
> > > +'unormal'=>array(
> > > +  'name'=>'Mario Fux',
> > > +  'country'=>'Switzerland',
> > > +  'city'=>'Burgdorf',
> > > +  'picture'=>'',
> > > +  'blogurl'=>'http://blogs.fsfe.org/mario/',
> > > +  'rssurl'=>'http://blogs.fsfe.org/mario/?feed=rss2&tag=kde',
> > > +  'twitter'=>'',
> > > +  'identica'=>'',
> > > +  'svnaccount'=>'fux',
> > > +  'opendesktop'=>'',
> > > +  'facebook'=>'',
> > > +  'kdesupportingmember'=>false,
> > > +  'gitoriousaccount'=>'fux'
> > > 
> > >  )
> > >  
> > >  );
> > 
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