[OGo-Discuss] OGo as blog client

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Im currently working on setting up a blog and forced into learning wordpress. 
> Interesting stuff if you like php. As a system it seems rather mature. 
> Then the idea hit me looking at the various remote editor clients for linux if 
> there was any interest in considering a component of OGo as a sorta client to 
> xml-rpc enable weblog software project. 

Yes, there was recently a long-ish thread about this -
http://mail.opengroupware.org/pipermail/discuss/2006-November/thread.html

But I don't see OGo having much of a role as a BLOG *client*.  It is
well suited to be a 'BLOG server',  in the same vein as MicroSoft's
SharePoint is a BLOG and Wiki server.

There is already some support in ZideStore for a blogging API -
http://bugzilla.opengroupware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235
http://svn.opengroupware.org/OpenGroupware.org/trunk/ZideStore/Protocols/Blogger/
But I don't think anyone is actively working on extending that.

> The use cases are many, 

Yes, and they are also vague and nebulous. :)

> that is not really the issue at this end, rather the 
> issue being one of how to best approach this so that its intuative, practical 
> and well integrated. 

Yes;  the "well integrated" part is what is VERY important to me.  The
ability to reference contacts, companies, and tasks in a page as simply
as one creates references in a [good] Wiki implementation.

Since projects in OGo can be used as document containers you can have a
project of a type [say "blog" or "wiki"]  where each document is an
entry or page.

One specific issue discussed in the aforementioned thread is
"journaling" as in the use case of a CRM package like ACT or Goldmine -
http://bugzilla.opengroupware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=370
http://bugzilla.opengroupware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39

But the [semi]conclusion was that the current notes implementation is
very nearly able to provide this -
http://mail.opengroupware.org/pipermail/discuss/2006-December/000971.html
 - and something like a notes overview would be an almost automatic
BLOG: "a top-level Notes application .... So I suppose whats really
missing here is a faster way to create  projects. And possibly a tab
which displays the notes of all projects associated with a
contact" (helge).

There is almost certainly and enhancement request in there somewhere or
at least additional notes for Bug#370.

Some of my last thoughts (in that thread) are here -
http://mail.opengroupware.org/pipermail/discuss/2006-December/000972.html

So I think there is a strong foundation for a developer to build on
already in place;  either by extending what is already in ZideStore or
in the WebUI.   Once I polish off the basic stuff in my own ZideStore
bundle [http://code.google.com/p/zogi/wiki/Root] I'll be adding some
simple BLOGish/Wikiy support APIs for use by our own intranet.