[LRUG] RSS feed for members blogs?

[Nick Ludlam]

On 25 Mar 2008, at 17:23, Murray Steele wrote:
> On 25/03/2008, James Darling <james at abscond.org> wrote: > perhaps a  
> place to aggregate general links to member's websites
>
> like http://lrug.org/members-and-friends/ ?
>
> Speaking of which, anyone need / want added to that?
>
> There's already a syndication bit on lrug.org. Would people appreciate
> an LRUG members feed?
>
> I think this is a great idea.  However, I've no idea on how to do  
> it.  Best guesses would be what Martin already suggested and using  
> WWR, or other social network sites that might already do such a  
> thing.  For example there are groups on last.fm, facebook and  
> linkedin (off the top of my head, there might be others).
>
> I have to admit that I have no idea how to do it ourselves.  Can it  
> be done externally to lrug.org with pipes, friendfeed or some other  
> existing rss mashy-upy-thingy?  If we need to self-host a solution,  
> can it be done with the current software (an old version of  
> RadiantCMS, so probably not), or is there something we can install  
> alongside (one of those planet doo-dahs?)
>
> The only problem I can see is that, like the existing members-and- 
> friends page, any solution will probably suffer from being manually  
> maintained.  But, something is better than nothing, so... anyone  
> that has any ideas or experience, speak up and we can see what we  
> can do.


Well for the haddock.org feed, Yahoo Pipes is used. I'm not sure if  
you can allow group editing for a pipe setup, but it would be workable  
to create a yahoo lrug login to own it, and share that account details  
amongst some admins.

I'll have an initial try by taking the list of people from http://lrug.org/members-and-friends/ 
  and trying to find a ruby category on each user's site.


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Nick Ludlam
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