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We're setting up a blog account for each student and mentor on seven.centos.org, a Wordpress instance. You'll soon receive new account information, probably via Jim Perrin.

As this is our first year in GSoC, we didn't have some of the pieces in place we might have wanted, such as a centralized communication website and habit of blogging a lot. :) In talking with project lead KB, we determined it would be more straightforward at this time to have everyone use the same blog instance. We'll get better search engine ranking[1] and an ability to work together easily in one content system.

For any blogging you've been doing already, maybe you can do several summary posts on seven.centos.org and point to the other write ups. (We don't want to just republish the same content as it hurts SEO.)

Maybe we can quickly determine here the basic features of a blog post you would write -- categories and tags to use, for example.

As this is mid-term, now is a great time to do a summary of status so far for the wider community.

- From now on it will be easier for mentors and administrators to see what is being blogged about, who is communicating outward, and so forth, by looking at the single blog tool.

I appreciate your cooperation in making this part work. Being new, much of our process is a bit experimental (welcome to an open source project!), for future years we can make adjustments as necessary. Your experience and feedback really help current and future students and mentors.

Kind regards,

- - Karsten

[1] Or, rather, we want to avoid getting marked down for duplicating content, such as from an origin blog to a planet aggregator. The single blog instance should get better page ranking.

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