Improve process blogging by chapters and/or add to main maptime.io blog

[bethschechter]

how can we do this? @geografa is there a way to pool all maptime chapter blogs into the main maptime.io blog? I would really love that, and it would keep us from duplicating efforts

[geografa]

:+1: this idea. I have to think about this given there are sites outside of the maptime org. Maybe @katydecorah has some ideas?

[bethschechter]

cool! well one idea is to start with the sites that are in maptime org and then we can encourage people to use jekyll and keep their stuff in the organization :)

[bethschechter]

thanks @geografa

[geobrando]

Question is do you want all chapter blogs to appear in the main blog. Many chapters are using their jekyll sites to announce events and post recaps for their members, which probably wouldn't be of interest to a general audience. Maybe you could just encourage organizers to blog on the main site on topics that might have general appeal.

[katydecorah]

@geografa If each chapter blog has an RSS feed then we can parse that data and build a single stream (via JavaScript). I'm not sure how it will be performance-wise considering there would be a considerably amount of data, but it's an idea!

[bethschechter]

Is there a way to make it easy for someone to select what post they would like to share on the main blog? Self curation? It may be as simple for asking for reposts, if we think it's too much to have every post by every chapter in the main feed.

Is it possible to do a Featured Post setting, where if we want an announcement or something to stay at the top of the blog?

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@geografa https://github.com/geografa If each chapter blog has an RSS feed then we can parse that data and build a single stream (via JavaScript). I'm not sure how it will be performance-wise considering there would be a considerably amount of data, but it's an idea!

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[geobrando]

@bethschechter Since we're not running a single jekyll site but a main one and a separate one for each chapter, I think this would have to be done using something like @katydecorah suggested.

For those chapters running a Jekyll site, what about asking them to use this and tag with something like "HQ" which would pull only those into the main blog?

For others using different blogging platforms that provide RSS feeds, there might be similar solutions.

[bethschechter]

I like this idea @geobrando. That makes it easy for everyone. Thumbs up!!

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Brandon Knight notifications@github.com wrote:

@bethschechter https://github.com/bethschechter Since we're not running a single jekyll site but a main one and a separate one for each chapter, I think this would have to be done using something like @katydecorah https://github.com/katydecorah suggested.

For those chapters running a Jekyll site, what about asking them to use this https://github.com/snaptortoise/jekyll-rss-feeds and tag with something like "HQ" which would pull only those into the main blog?

For others using different blogging platforms that provide RSS feeds, there might be similar solutions.

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[geobrando]

Github pages has just enabled the use an atom plugin for Jekyll blogs. This will make it easy to generate feeds. Pulling them into the main site is a different story.

https://github.com/blog/2053-easier-feeds-for-github-pages

[geografa]

:+1: