On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Leo White <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lpw25@cam.ac.uk" target="_blank">lpw25@cam.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I think that both those examples would be better posted on someone's blog and fed through the Planet.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You're right, the Serious Contender stuff doesn't need to be on an official site like <a href="http://ocaml.org">ocaml.org</a>. I think Success Stories can still make sense. Over time they might get more detailed and become white papers, which even the most successful businesses release. But certainly, we shouldn't appear desperate, which we're not. :)<br>
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If something is important then it should have its own page</blockquote><div><br></div><div>An OCaml release or a new book being published are important but don't make sense as a whole page. I suppose each of these items could be on some other blog and thus show up on the Planet. I guess I'm looking for a way to filter out a subset of all Planet items that are worth displaying more prominently on the frontpage, or other pages within <a href="http://ocaml.org">ocaml.org</a>. (Incidentally, the current frontpage design doesn't support this.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Ashish</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Jan 8 2013, Ashish Agarwal wrote:<br>
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On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Malcolm Matalka <<a href="mailto:mmatalka@gmail.com" target="_blank">mmatalka@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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What would be the intended content for the blog?<br>
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Mainly I wanted it because there are items that make sense to go on the<br>
<a href="http://ocaml.org" target="_blank">ocaml.org</a> website, but which become slowly less relevant over time. It's<br>
awkward to keep these as normal html files. A few examples:<br>
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* Serious Contender page [1]. It's nice, but where to put it? It would be<br>
perfect as a blog post (backdated in this case) because it was relevant at<br>
the time the page was made, and we don't want to claim this as a recent<br>
news item (since the information in it is old).<br>
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[1] <a href="https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml.org/issues/34" target="_blank">https://github.com/ocaml/<u></u>ocaml.org/issues/34</a><br>
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* Success Stories [2] might make more sense as blog posts. Some of the<br>
current ones are kind of outdated. Making each of these a blog post would<br>
automatically make them less relevant over time (and presumably we'll have<br>
new success stories being added over the years). The current page could be<br>
a filter on blog posts tagged "Success Story".<br>
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[2] <a href="http://ocaml.org/success.html" target="_blank">http://ocaml.org/success.html</a><br>
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* Semi-official announcements, e.g.<br>
- a new release of OCaml (but this would overlap with Inria's blog, so<br>
should be coordinated with them)<br>
- "Real World OCaml in print". This would be a result of wide spread<br>
importance to the community.<br>
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I think it should be limited in use. Opening it up more widely seems<br>
unnecessary. You can easily make your own blog, and subscribe it to the<br>
Planet.<br>
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-Ashish<br>
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