NEW blog for diaspora*
Remember www.diasporial.com? Of course you do. Unfortunately the blog is not being updated any longer. We need to make diaspora* development possible, and we need to get involved. Not all of us are programmers, but we can write and promote this social network. We need to organize ourselves and do the following: 1. promote the new blog (blog.diasporafoundation.org) where anyone can share info, promote diaspora* in as many ways as possible, call on volunteer programmers; 2. move the content of the old www.diasporial.com to the new blog; 3. avoid trolling and keep being positive about it ;)
P.S. Please remind me if I missed something and feel free to jump right in :)
You can also check this thread https://www.loomio.org/d/x9VBan3j/diaspora-foundation-site-proposal about the new diaspora* website and https://www.loomio.org/d/rIUqBLWH/project-domain-name for the domain name. But what about the blog? Should the new blog contain the old diasporial blog content?
riderplus Wed 3 Dec 2014 6:51PM
@augier Please read my posts above- my first proposal (that I talked to you and RDash about) was rejected because it was thought to be "useless" by the admin @dennisschubert. Of course I disagree on his decision, but I'm not doing the "house cleaning" here, so I have to respect that the first proposal was rejected. So Dennis Schubert blocked my proposal and there's nothing to do about it, only if someone else creates a new post. FWIW, I think that blocking a post by reasons of "house cleaning" is authoritarian and highly undemocratic, since the post was not spamming anyone!
Dennis Schubert Wed 3 Dec 2014 7:01PM
@deadsuperhero We talked about that on our 11th Nov meeting. :) Pinging @flaburgan because he wrote https://diaspora-fr.org/posts/793785
riderplus Wed 3 Dec 2014 7:09PM
@deadsuperhero The approach to development coverage was what I also talked to @augier on IRC about, among others...maybe someone could start a new post/proposal, if this one doesn't catch up with what we need for promoting diaspora* better...
riderplus Wed 3 Dec 2014 7:30PM
If this post by Kevin is outdated, then whoever maintains it's outdated is outdated:
http://diasporial.com/articles/diaspora-is-not-ready-for-the-mass-yet
Let me quote:
Diaspora isn’t ready for the mass yet, as much as we would like it to be. What we need to do is “planting the seeds in their minds”, as someone mentioned on the post. Compare it to Twitter. Everyone has heard of Twitter yet most people don’t even know what it’s exactly about. That would definitely be the best case scenario for Diaspora, as people will be more tempted to join once it’s actually ready. And that moment is yet to come.
So please (at least) read the www.diasporial.com blog before expressing your opinion, otherwise you'll confuse others :-)
Deleted account Sat 6 Dec 2014 10:23PM
We talked about this subject yesterday during a informal meetup with @flaburgan.
There are numerous point we could post on a community blog.
Currently, the official blog is used for official communications : new versions and official statements (like what was done when the islamic storm). However, this blog has a new post each 6 months. This does not give the impression of a project that is alive...
In an other hand, there numerous point that we don't communicate on. Here are some :
- the work on the chat and the features,
- the individual initiatives like @praveenarimbrathod's packaging crowdsourcing or @rich1's forum,
- hottest points beeing discussed here,
- what happens on the forum
- community fan arts (I strongly believe we should stimulate community fan art)
- etc...
I give so much time ansering the same question on framsphere.org about the chat and other features. We definitly need a community blog to communicate on these things appart from the official blog.diasporafoundation.org !
Jason Robinson Sun 7 Dec 2014 11:21AM
Everybody who wants a community blog - please work together and set one up :) Just like @rich1 did with the (excellent) diaspora forum (https://diasporaforum.org/).
If the blog gets adoption, then it will become a success and it will end up being a "core thing".
Personally, I would only vote on attaching a community blog type of thing to the diasporafoundation.org site if I see actual blog entries written. It just doesn't seem to happen, lots of people talk about blogging, but then there is not much happening.
Diasporal was AFAIK not an official resource - it just became popular and became thus became kinda "official", even having a link from inside diaspora. The same could happen to any community blog site that is set up... :)
riderplus Sun 7 Dec 2014 12:30PM
@jasonrobinson Yeah...that was my initial proposal which was blocked. But thank you for your support :)
Jason Robinson Sun 7 Dec 2014 12:32PM
@riderplus we've decided in the early Loomio days that a block is only a no. Besides, NO ONE can block you from creating a page on the internet and working with other community members.
riderplus Sun 7 Dec 2014 12:35PM
@jasonrobinson It is one thing to create a blog and work with other community members and quite another to make the change official on Loomio. I guess we can all agree on that. Otherwise what's the sense of us discussing here? :)
Sean Tilley · Wed 3 Dec 2014 6:51PM
Perhaps a better proposal would be to use our blog more frequently, and perhaps have an approach to development coverage similar to what Diasporial was?