This will be a perfect opportunity to make some changes that will simplify content management while opening up greater opportunity's for information sharing, transparency, and collaboration.
The changes currently underway:
- The chromed pork main page and content will be moved to another hosting provider.
- This blog has been created to provide updates on changes to the site, it is intended as collaborative blog for use by the chromed pork community.
- All scans, gallery's, papers and links will be removed from their place on the website and distributed via the blog. This well drastically reduce the work effort involved in content and site management while making this information easier to parse, aggregate, and otherwise manipulate and/or mine.
- The new Chromed Pork Radio podcast feed will be served up via Google's feedburner due to overwhelming demand to confirm or deny the presence of our 2 listeners. Both an OGG and MP3 feed will be maintained, all episodes will be released under an open content license such as creative commons. While we rip last seasons episodes to ogg and normalize all MP3 episodes to a standard low bit rate, I will be removing certain content that would be “incompatible” with this license.
Over the life of the group their has been a lot of tribal knowledge sharing over IRC, I'm hoping that a new easier to use model might encourage some information sharing.
-- Multi-Mode