Re: Proposal - merge the Foundation blog into gnome.org

[Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>]

I strongly agree as well - having one centralized new source will help
people understand what's going on and not miss anything.  Having new
and timely news is the best way to get repeat visitors and engagement
and this is a great step towards that.

--Paul

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Andreas Nilsson <lists andreasn se> wrote:
> On 11/30/2011 10:32 AM, Allan Day wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> For a long time we have had a news feed for gnome.org and a separate
>> Foundation blog. I'm proposing that we combine them both into the
>> gnome.org feed.
>>
>> A bit of background. First, I think we should be moving in a direction
>> where the Foundation isn't considered to be a separate entity from the
>> GNOME project. The Foundation is a vital part of our project, there
>> shouldn't be much of a difference between 'The GNOME Project' and 'The
>> GNOME Foundation' in terms of membership and identity. Second, GNOME's
>> news feeds are currently in a rather poor state. They are highly
>> fragmented and are often dead or on life support.
>
> I very much agree!
> The foundation news on http://foundation.gnome.org/ are few and far in
> between and in a less visible place compared to the www.gnome.org frontpage
> and combining them would be a good move, since all the news currently on
> f.g.o would fit very well on w.g.o as well.
> - Andreas
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