[OpenID board] Updates to the website and blog

[David Recordon]

Happy to continue helping with this and playing sysadmin.  More  
thoughts inline...

--David

On Dec 5, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Chris Messina wrote:

> Will Norris and I were reviewing OpenID.net today and found a number  
> of things that need cleaning up.
>
> Given the great look and feel of the OIDF membership and elections  
> app, we thought that we might take some time to make the blog and  
> homepage look consistent with the app, and upgrade our instance of  
> WordPress to 2.7rc1.

Makes sense.  I'm unsure if Refresh Media was also planning to update  
the site, we should find out first.  We should also make sure that the  
various plugins we're using are compatible with 2.7.

> We also want to change our current spam plugin from Defensio to  
> Akismet.

Why?  Quite honestly as I'm managing comments I much prefer Defensio  
due to how it splits up spam by "spamminess".  Makes it much easier to  
filter through as someone who blogs on OpenID.net.

> I wasn't sure if I should send this to the general@ list, but I  
> figured that this backend stuff isn't all that interesting to folks  
> on that list.

Yeah, not sure where this should go.  Here works for now.

> I also think that we should (now, or after the election) pick  
> someone to be responsible as the go-to person for the server, and  
> who will maintain the software and access rights to the server.  
> That's a somewhat separate issue, but it's something that we need  
> some leadership, or at least responsibility, on.

Yes, Scott and I have been sharing this role which I think is actually  
working well.  The issue is more finding people with time who want to  
work on things, not getting access to do them. :)

> Chris
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