In passing at FUDCon I discussed (with Mike?) putting an RSS feed from redhatmagazine.com on the front page of fedoraproject.org. Today I can see a nice pointer to the RHM video of Paul Frields.
This idea came from the Magazine crew. The quantity and quality of content relevant to the Fedora Project in Red Hat Magazine has been increasing over the year(s) to the point where it is now very useful for users and contributors to read. What we were thinking was an RSS pull. While a full planet-style feed (with embedded video, etc.) would be cool, that seems overwhelming for the front page. Instead, a text feed showing the latest three or five items would work.
We can grab one of the feeds from here:
http://www.redhatmagazine.com/rss-feeds/
Either the full magazine feed or the Fedora tagged feed. I think we should do the full magazine feed, since more than the Fedora-tagged content is relevant to the Fedora audience.
What say ye?
This is all set up on fedorapeople.org, did you still want it on fedoraproject front page?
Replying to [comment:1 mmcgrath]:
You mean planet.fedoraproject.org? Yes, the feed is in there. What we were talking about was having a quality Fedora related dynamic feed on the front of fedoraproject.org. The two best candidates for that right now are FWN and Red Hat Magazine's 'fedora' tagged content.
I'd like to increase the coverage of this ticket, with a title change:
"Feeds on fedoraproject.org front page"
... then propose these specific feeds, either in one box or separated by subject:
This way we can get an announcement on the front page without special effort or special permission; just get it into the announce list and there it appears.
I'm going to look to see what I can find to do this; maybe a TurboGears widget exists, or I can at least do a mock-up to show what I mean. I gather I'll have to do some recruiting if my tech skills aren't enough? This is obviously a lower importance thing on the Infrastructure and Websites side.
Any help would be appreciated; I'll at least get a mock-up done to send to f-websites-l for comment.
Sorry, don't know how I missed this ticket. Just to let you know, we already have code ready for integrating RSS feeds into our static pages. My only concern would be how that will work with non-English translations.
Replying to [comment:5 ricky]:
Sorry, don't know how I missed this ticket. Just to let you know, we already have code ready for integrating RSS feeds into our static pages.
For the user experience of it all, should I do a mock-up (graphic) of how I would see a feed coming into that page? Location, size, etc. A strawman for discussion on f-websites-l. Or do you have that all figured out?
My only concern would be how that will work with non-English translations.
That's a good question. I know Red Hat Magazine experimented with the Google auto-translation links Wordpress plugin, and it didn't go over so well. Having this content in English on translated pages ... is that rude? Or better than nothing?
What I'd like to try is this:
Come up with a stacked design so we can have separate feeds reading in rather than jamming them all into one
Put up the RSS feed pull code and start displaying the feeds as-is
I guess I should do the mock-up to show what I mean. :)
revisiting an old ticket...
fp.o likely had changed significantly since this was created. We put some rss feed type stuff in on the join page [1]. Does that meet the original request?
If its specific on fp.o homepage, the interviews and tutorials sections are automatically changed upon every rebuild (currently hourly).
[1] - http://fedoraproject.org/en/join-fedora
If there is something else that i'm missing from this, please re-open.
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