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Wed 10 Jun 2015 1:53PM

Should we create an official QGIS blog

TS Tim Sutton Public Seen by 206

Proposal is to host it on Wordpress.com but with domain of http://blog.qgis.org at a cost of USD 13 per year. We would add the blog to the QGIS planet feed too.

RD

Richard Duivenvoorde Wed 1 Jul 2015 6:28AM

Ok, from what I read it is $13 per year: https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
So not a problem I think

Mmm, apparently blog.qgis .org is still in use...

http://blog.qgis.org/

Should we make it psc.qgis.org then, or talk.qgis.org or official.qgis.org or so?

AG

Anita Graser Wed 1 Jul 2015 7:33AM

I'd rather move that ancient stuff to oldblog.QGIS.org or similar.

AG

Anita Graser Thu 2 Jul 2015 5:43PM

@timsutton Do you think we should keep the old blog at blog.qgis.org? Or should we move that somewhere else. It's good to leave it online somewhere I guess.

GS

Gary Sherman Thu 2 Jul 2015 6:01PM

It sits on my server. The domain can be redirected wherever need be. I can create an alias for it (e.g. qgisblog.geoapt.net) just to keep it around for historical purposes. Or move it to oldblog...

AG

Anita Graser Thu 2 Jul 2015 8:59PM

I'll set up the mapping of blog.qgis.org on Wordpress tomorrow if nobody opposes.

TS

Tim Sutton Thu 2 Jul 2015 9:56PM

Great thanks @anitagraser and @oldmandqgis yes it would be good to keep archives of the old blog somewhere....

TS

Tim Sutton Mon 6 Jul 2015 5:26PM

@anitagraser One more thing before we consider it ready - lets get it themed to look like the rest of the QGIS.org site. I have a good designer that can do it for a fair rate, or if someone has some time can they apply the same theming as QGIS.org?

AG

Anita Graser Mon 6 Jul 2015 5:36PM

@timsutton We currently don't have access to use our own theme. That might be possible with the Custom Design upgrade for $30.00 but I'm not 100% sure of that.

AG

Anita Graser Mon 6 Jul 2015 5:51PM

I tried to find a theme which looks reasonably similar to qgis.org. Will that do for now?

TS

Tim Sutton Mon 6 Jul 2015 6:37PM

Yes - much better - can you get the QGIS logo into that as well - then I will stop being fussy :-)

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