Re: Developing GNOME News

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:00 PM, alex diavatis
<alexis diavatis gmail com> wrote:
> Hello Allan,
> I think that gnome.org consistency is a bit broken on several areas, for
> example on gnome.org we have latest news that are totally different from
> latest news on news.gnome.org.

I agree. We could maybe syndicate the content from gnome.org on news.gnome.org.

> I don't think that the news should be on a sub-domain, news is a core module
> of Gnome Page and should always be present on the Home Page and on main
> domain also.
> On WoGue I build home page using widgets (some similar to windows 8) that
> represents sections of our site, eg News, Games, Successfully Stories etc..
> Widget's style-sheet is defined from last update date, I keep them small (so
> I can use a lot on home page without making seem heavy) and I display last
> news on a single line,
> I expand them on mouse event, and I give two options: Read a specific Item,
> or Visit the whole section that this item exists.
> I think that the result I have accomplish is pretty (even if I don't know
> Gimp :) ) quick and practical.
> Well my opinion is that on gnome home page, you have to offer easy and quick
> access to everything, and widget blocks is a nice solution to keep things
> simple and minimalist.
>
> We can display official gnome news on one of our widgets using RSS, Ajax or
> something.
> Our material exceeds Gnome and we get things that Gnome Page can't present
> like Themes (http://art.gnome.org/themes page is dead?) Games and
> Interviews.
> We are planning services for Thumps up/Down, Sorting by criteria on Games
> and Themes (and maybe extensions and Gnome Apps when they get online) but
> our main purpose is
> to present future Ideas on Gnome. and let people that read us, to Thumps
> them up if they like them.
> I guess there is space on WoGue as we cannot present actually Gnome news,
> because we don't know them, we learn them from you :)
> We would be more than happy if we could merge in a way of covering different
> aspects for Gnome
> Regards,
> - alex

Yes I definitely think that we can organise ourselves in a
complementary fashion.

Allan
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