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Wednesday 28 January 2004 6:55:59 am

This would be very helpful. Perhaps the person who will be dedicated to community relations could consider a blog as a tool for the job.

Alex

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Wednesday 28 January 2004 7:45:18 am

It might be nice to have the blogger(s) provide updates on other eZ-related projects. It would be nice to see a contribution highlighted and perhaps explained. It wouldn't have to be much. It might also be nice to have more than one blogger, and not necessarily from eZ systems. There are probably some of us in the community who could commit to some regular updates on different areas. While some, like Paul F., Paul B. and others could provide insights to the community concerning the back-end and extension development for example, others could talk about other topics including template tips and tricks, or even how to adapt CSS example code for new sites. I would be happy to commit my time and knowledge to discussing front-end issues like CSS/XHTML.

The key would be expanding knowledge beyond answering a forum post on the boards. A larger view of development and presentation could prove beneficial to the community, and that view is hard to get when so much of the knowledge is pulled from different posts and documentation.

Oh, I don't mean to speak for either of the Pauls, or anyone else when suggesting multiple authors.

Alex

Alex
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Wednesday 28 January 2004 8:14:14 am

Its an interesting question as Article, blogs and comments share much of the same structure.

*Articles have comments
*Blogs have comments
*comments have comments in the case of forums.

As articles, blogs and comments are essionally the same i.e. authenticated and dated text storage mechanisms we need a way of seperating their usage. Personally I see articles as a way of storing information that has a long versioned life cycle. Blogs are a method of storing news like information or information that does not need to be versioned.
For example: An article would be used for a published coding standard, the blog would then be used as a starting point for a discussion about new learning that has been gain subsiquent to the article being published. This information would then be added to the next version of the document should it be deemed fit.
The blogs are perfect as they could be used as containers for all types of information including a transcript of a conversation had on a jabber server etc. People can then comment on this blog anonymously if they so wish as they can do with the article.

I think their should be guidelines to help people when choosing the object. The choice will always be thiers but by having a best practice we can help the formalisation of infromation in sites.

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