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Re: Offer HN: create a collaborative tech blog?

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Post by tikhonj »

pault wrote: post #37
Kaizyn wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That depends on how closely affiliated with HN the blog is going to be and if our ycombinator benefactors are interested in endorsing such a project. If so, it should be one of them or someone they designate from the community. If it is not associated to HN, then this is not an easily solved problem.

I love the idea of a community blog for HN readers, but I doubt anyone wants to make it official. Maybe we just see who's interested and hand the reins over to whoever has the highest karma?

I think that just having anybody with enough time to manage would do. As long as there's a focus on community, and everything gets discussed, any power issues should be remediable at the very beginning.

Basically, we should just have a community where the person managing the github account and whatnot is more like a sysadmin than a CEO. The main goal should be to find somebody willing to do a little extra work to get everything working.

Re: Offer HN: create a collaborative tech blog?

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Post by pault »

tikhonj wrote: post #41
pault wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love the idea of a community blog for HN readers, but I doubt anyone wants to make it official. Maybe we just see who's interested and hand the reins over to whoever has the highest karma?

I think that just having anybody with enough time to manage would do. As long as there's a focus on community, and everything gets discussed, any power issues should be remediable at the very beginning. Basically, we should just have a community where the person managing the github account and whatnot is more like a sysadmin than a CEO. The main goal should be to find somebody willing to do a little extra work to get…

Agreed; electing a button-pusher-in-chief shouldn't be an issue until someone actually contributes something, and at this point the OP is MIA. I think you should do it.

Re: Offer HN: create a collaborative tech blog?

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Post by _ud4a »

_ud4a wrote: post #21

I created a site called learnfrom.it which is coming down tomorrow since i got busy with other stuff. But if you guys want i can put it back up so people can contribute. Aside from being busy it was hard to get people to contribute so if people volunteer i'll keep it up and change the cstegories so its tech focus. Check out the site and let me know

Link: http://www.learnfrom.it

Re: Offer HN: create a collaborative tech blog?

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Post by _ud4a »

pault wrote: post #28
_ud4a wrote: post #22

Link: http://www.learnfrom.it

I'm confused; without any explanation of why you are posting this link here, it appears you are trying to trick people into thinking that this is the collaborative tech blog proposed in the submission, unless it is, in which case you could use a little help with the messaging on the landing page. EDIT: Okay, I see your comment elsewhere on the page. You should probably post this as a child of that comment to avoid co…

Sorry for the confusion. I've added the link as a reply to my original post. I do agree the "explanation" could use some changing! The initial idea was to put a blog together for people to share their experiences with others without having to maintain their own blog, similar to this. I do agree that it needs a lot of work since i only put it together in a few days reusing old code.

Re: Offer HN: create a collaborative tech blog?

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Post by alexis-d »

tikhonj wrote: post #11

Sounds brilliant. I'm a student, so I don't have enough time (and probably don't know enough) to maintain my own blog, but I would love to write an article or two once in a while. Also, discussing articles with other contributors before publication sounds like a great way for me to improve my own writing quality--it's like free editing. What do you (and other interested people) think the minimum number of contributor…

I don't really know it really depends on the number of a contributor! The goal isn't to have a huge blog with 20posts/day. The hard thing is to get a motivated team to get started to be sure the idea will last (there's no point if everybody post something at the beginning and then nothing).

Maybe we should start to talk on IRC? Or Google groups to see who's motivated?

Re: Offer HN: create a collaborative tech blog?

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Post by alexis-d »

tikhonj wrote: post #36
pault wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree. Who gets push access to master?

If not too many people want to post at the start, it can always just be a volunteer or two from the initial pool of interested people. Perhaps, at the very beginning, the submitter could just take care of all the administration (hopefully it's not too much work) and everybody could work out a system for discussing and approving posts as a group.

By the way the "big thing" isn't the hardest part of this. The most important thing is probably the review of issue/pull request, and everybody who want to help can do that ;)

Re: Offer HN: create a collaborative tech blog?

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Post by kittxkat »

That sounds like planet-aggregation to me, something like planet.ubuntu.com, but could be set up as planet.hackernews.com or something.

As I love to read planets, I'm all up for it. I agree to your argument, what's the point of blogging if nobody reads it. And why have 100 blogs rss'ed if you could have them all in one place.

Re: Offer HN: create a collaborative tech blog?

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Post by cnu »

Coincidentally, I had such an idea for a long time and have started writing an application for such a blog in my spare time. But my blog isnt just for the tech community. Will do a "Show HN" soon, when I have a working site.

But would be nice to see a github hosted version.

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