Re: [Debconf-discuss] Summary of the publicity BOF

[David Moreno <david@axiombox.com>]

On Aug 1, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Ana Guerrero wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 01:58:36PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Meike Reichle wrote:
> > > 	planet.debian.org
> > > * We should aggregate debian-announce on planet.debian.org. Many  
> > > people
> > > seem to take it as a general information source on Debian.
> > > * Many people post information about newsworthy things in their  
> > > blogs,
> > > because they don't know where else to put it. A better news  
> > > aggregation
> > > service (see above) should help this. Some also just don't want  
> > > the extra
> > > work, it would be worthwhile to pick their news off planet and add  
> > > them to
> > > the aggregation ourselves.
> > > * To this end there was a proposal to add a feature to planet.d.o  
> > > and
> > > maybe also the mailing lists that provides a link that can be  
> > > clicked in
> > > order to suggest a post to the news aggregation service.
> >
> > Full ack on this. IMO we should really create a central news  
> > service that
> > aggregates:
> > - debian-announce / debian-news mails
> > - some cherry picked planet.d.o posts (maybe even from other blogs  
> > from
> >  time to time, there are some interesting stuff on  
> > planet.ubuntu.com for
> >  instance)
> > - maybe times.debian.net if it's not redundant with
> >  debian-announce/debian-news
> >
> > I would be interested to help run/setup such a service although I  
> > don't
> > know what software could be used for this.
>
> I am currently doing the setup of something similar but it is not  
> 100 %
> this.
> I presented one previous idea in the bof, but i am not sure if i did  
> not
> introduce it properly or just people did not like it. Still I think  
> it is
> worth invest my time on trying it.
> More information coming very soon.

I used to do something slightly similar to this in the past on the  
wiki, until I got tired since no one seemed to care :)

http://wiki.debian.org/FrontPageNews

The front page of the wiki used to pull the feed at:

http://wiki.debian.org/FrontPageNewsFeed

a few times a day. I used to use a simple aggregator that I made  
called Vitacilina [1] and used to insert it on the wiki with some  
simple WWW::Mechanize foo. Re-enabling such a setup would be trivial  
in case you guys want to add on top of that.

Cheers,
D

1: http://search.cpan.org/~damog/Vitacilina-0.1/lib/Vitacilina.pm