A Collaborative Blog on Linux.

[DigitalDude]

^^^^
I saw that but its not clear if we start from scratch our own way or using freeme.in domain and hosting


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[ray|raven]

AFAIK, he means that we start from scratch on freeme.in

 

[nileshgr]

Offtopic:

Dude, this is a public forum, people have the right to comment on other's posts. But, people dont have the right to abuse others.

Now, please stop this discussion.
Post on the topic please.

yeah I know that

@The_Unknown
lol thanks for the compliment things in life should be done to achieve a purpose easily, practically, with minimum effort, time and money.. not to show blind courage like in a movie

don't worry kid you'll learn a lot when you age

Among teachers, friends in school I am popular as a computer expert. And here on among my IM friends, I am popular as a PHP Expert. And one more: there is the computer shop near to my house, whenever he meets me somewhere or my dad / mom; he asks them "What is 'Engineer Sahab' doing ?" !! I myself am unable to swallow this thing!!

Having a own or a team CMS rather has its own benefits because you know each and every part of it, so if any bug occurs it won't take time to inspect and solve it. In pre-built CMSes, when the bug is found, its reported, and when the designers will take notice of it then the fix will be released.

Okay no more fights now

 

[DigitalDude]

@The_Unknown
sorry but I can just say you are not familiar with development... and have never really encountered how many bugs (leave alone security holes) will a custom developed php app throws compared to the power of a popular open source CMS.

the aim of this thread is to 'form a collaborative blog about linux'.. not to 'develop a custom CMS' which is not as easy as you think. lets not digress.

p.s. we are not interested in your autobiography. if you want to prove yourself, can you take on this writing assignment as a contributor to share your knowledge about linux in the proposed blog ?

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[Faun]

Wordpress is good to start quickly and with its whole lot of plugins its a cheese to roll out shiny new blog

 

[nileshgr]

@The_Unknown
sorry but I can just say you are not familiar with development... and have never really encountered how many bugs (leave alone security holes) will a custom developed php app throws compared to the power of a popular open source CMS.

the aim of this thread is to 'form a collaborative blog about linux'.. not to 'develop a custom CMS' which is not as easy as you think. lets not digress.

p.s. we are not interested in your autobiography. if you want to prove yourself, can you take on this writing assignment as a contributor to share your knowledge about linux in the proposed blog ?

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I could contribute to some extent as I am "not" expert in Linux like praka, mehulved, others...still learning. When I will post some articles specifically about Linux and Open-Source in my site, I will give this blog to copy them .

whether you believe it or not the thing I told you about my popularity is true. I don't think any of you here will believe it.

Wordpress is good to start quickly and with its whole lot of plugins its a cheese to roll out shiny new blog

Drupal and Joomla have more of them I think

 

[DigitalDude]

@The_Unknown
most of us here in this forum are like that only if not more than that.. so nothing spl that its unbelievable


btw if its a blog then it shud be on WP for a CMS site drupal vs joomla thats a separate topic

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[nileshgr]

@The_Unknown
most of us here in this forum are like that only if not more than that.. so nothing spl that its unbelievable


btw if its a blog then it shud be on WP for a CMS site drupal vs joomla thats a separate topic

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basically the thing is going to be a community contributed site so I think drupal would be better because drupal's main aim is "Community Plumbing"

 

[DigitalDude]

^^if its pure community contribution then we can stay glued to this forum itself

rayraven thought it would be nice if we can rope in some good linux contributors in this forum and form a blog with them as authors.. so they share good tips, news and tuts about linux... and may be we can discuss about the posts here in a separate thread or the comments section of the blog itself suffices


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[ray|raven]

^Precisely. Now, please stop arguing.

 

[nileshgr]

^^if its pure community contribution then we can stay glued to this forum itself

rayraven thought it would be nice if we can rope in some good linux contributors in this forum and form a blog with them as authors.. so they share good tips, news and tuts about linux... and may be we can discuss about the posts here in a separate thread or the comments section of the blog itself suffices


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naa.. sticking to this forum itself isn't a good idea. I have a very bad experience with WP... so I am not in favor of WP instead drupal with which I don't have such nightmares.

^Precisely. Now, please stop arguing.

We must discuss about which CMS to use.

 

[ray|raven]

Yes, we must discuss about the CMS.
But , more important, are the editors and contributors.

Kalpik and Mehul are in favour of Drupal.
And according to Mehul , its possible to have a blog and a sort-of mini forums to discuss abt the blog on the site, if we use drupal.

Personally, i too favour drupal, if we could get a decent looking skin.

 

[nileshgr]

Yes, we must discuss about the CMS.
But , more important, are the editors and contributors.

Kalpik and Mehul are in favour of Drupal.
And according to Mehul , its possible to have a blog and a sort-of mini forums to discuss abt the blog on the site, if we use drupal.

Personally, i too favour drupal, if we could get a decent looking skin.

yeah what they say is right cus it has inbuilt forum module which can extended to a full-fledged forum system by having some more modules in it.

 

[FilledVoid]

2. List of Contributors.

Why do we need a list of contributors? I thought that anyone who has a worthwhile article of something for OSS or whatever the blog is about, could post it either themselves or through a group of editors / admins.

3. CMS - Drupal or Wordpress - Personally, i dont care which as long it looks good

If my opinion does count then I would vote for Drupal.

 

[ray|raven]

The Editors are to scrutiny the quality of the posts.
Everyone who wants can submit an article, but we need to make a list , just so we know who's interested.
Also, we need to give rights to people on the CMS to post also.

 

[FilledVoid]

Everyone who wants can submit an article, but we need to make a list , just so we know who's interested.
Also, we need to give rights to people on the CMS to post also.

Oh ok, I thought the Editors were supposed to make the post after scrutiny.

 

[ray|raven]

Posts are made by everyone, the editors scrutiny them , and ask for edits if necessary, check if its been plagiarized blatantly etc.
Then the post is made public.

Btw, everyone's opinion counts. As Always, Majority wins.

 

[nileshgr]

If my opinion does count then I would vote for Drupal.

offtopic: smart

 

[CadCrazy]

Agree with T159 (.in domain thingy )
IMO we should start from scratch with a new blog. And why the poll has been closed.

 

[mehulved]

Sorry been out of touch since a few days due to my exams. I will be installing drupal from scratch today.
All the registered member will automatically be allowed to contribute. We will need a list of moderators though.