P2P Foundation Blog Maintenance

Issues, upgrades and maintenance for the Foundation's blog at http://blog.p2pfoundation.net .

Distributed blog updating

Active contributors during
the last 18 months

<tab class=wikitable sep=comma head=top> Contributions, User 4557,michel 1248,franco_iacomella 671,chrispinchen 240,sepp 174,jdaviescoates 169,nicolas_mendoza 128,orsan 92,kevflanagan 70,vasilis 57,james 48,poor_richard 29,kevin 26,jon_holmquist 14,dante 12,jean_lievens 8,paulbhartzog 3,sam-rose 3,marcofioretti </tab>

Our blog in mainly manteined by Michel with backups of Franco, so we need to find a way to distribute the workload into other commited persons. The ideal scenario would be to have at leat 5 other persons commited to publish, at least, 2 new posts per week or, what is the same, take care of one day of the week.

Our candidates so far:

1. Kevin Flanagan
2. Orsan Senalp
3. Nicolas Mendoza?
4. Tomas Rawlings?

1. Someone from Italy
2. Someone from Greece
3. Someone from Australia
4. Someone from Brazil

How to proceed?

1. We prepare an appealing message asking for active contributions (at least 1 post per month).
2. The authors willing to take such a commit are asked to send a confirmation message to contact@p2pfoundation.net (since we both receive that).
   • List of authors that replied (see below)
3. The authors not able to take the commitment or don't reply, gets their account deleted
4. We create nice profile pages for all the authors (since they would be all committed)
5. We create a "p2p-blog-authors" mailing list as a quick way to communicate to all blog authors (you could start sending post requests to that list)
6. From that point, any person willing to have an account in the blog must commit to make at least one post per month. If a person just want to publish one post, we don't give him an author but still create the entry blog referring the person authorship.

Confirmed authors

<tab class=wikitable sep=comma head=top> Name,Mail,Comments Tiberius Brastaviceanu,<tiberius.brastaviceanu@gmail.com>, Chris Watkins,<chriswaterguy@appropedia.org>,A regular perspective from Appropedia. I will come up with a list of possible blog topics. Vasilis Kostakis,<kostakis.b@gmail.com> Franz Nahrada,<f.nahrada@reflex.at>,Its very interesting to see how different perspectives are. For me the speed and amount of posts on the blog is already undigesteable. Of course I am willing to contribute but I think that would also require to develop some coordination in our editorial directions. </tab>

To Do List

1. Write general appeal for blog contributions
   1. Franco prepare the list of contributors sorted by n° of contributions
   2. Clean the list of blog users, authors and subscribers
2. Reduce the number of posts categories by merging and deleting
   1. Create the "Commons" category
3. Reduce the number of used plugins by checking unused features.
4. Blog's search results are really bad. Find a solution for it.
5. In the post view:
   1. Add a "Related Content" feature that would search automatically for related content in both wiki and blog