The main PetrolTracker site (
https://code.google.com/p/petroltracker/) is more than just a blog/wiki, its main purpose is as a source-code repository and issue-tracker/project-mgmt tool so people can keep-up with the project without requiring updates directly from me. It is also a central place to see/track/review everyone's involvement.
Here's what I suggest: if whoever posts content to skunks-ke sees content that they would like to re-post, I would be more than happy to oblige. I will also strive to cross-blog when it makes sense to, e.g. some posts may be too technical for the general skunks-ke population (I'm not sure how many are interested in language parsers etc).
I would like to post more on that, and other issues, but time is money and I'm not (yet) a billionaire.
To reiterate, I'm game with regards to posting on the skunks-ke blog. I'd rather not have (yet another) set of passwords to remember, I hope I can send whatever material I have (or whatever anyone requests) to someone who can then post them.
Would this work?
Saidi
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 1:01 AM, The Ice Man
<aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:17 PM, saidimu apale <
saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ice Man, here's a little update on what's happening with PetrolTracker:
> The prototype is shaping up decently, I spend about an hour a day working on
> it.
Thanks for the update, thought we had lost you. Have a suggestion for
you, hear me out.
I think your apps and the process will do an excellent presence on the
skunks blog site. Though it is not an online forum, it's much better.
These days most younger generations are all smart devices, facebook,
twitter etc. To have a technical forum just for technologists is to
restrict ourselvers to a few people. Telling the younger generations
to join a tech forum would be like the most boring thing to do.
With the blog site, our image is much more friendlier and easy going.
Let us write for kenyans and those in the region. Let us establish the
blog as the face between technology and everyone else out there.
Overtime, we may just generate enough interest to start getting more
and more members. And the benefit will be to the skunks cloud.
The skunks blog is new ground. I'm one of the first to be there and
making it my next presence. I'm asking other pioneers to join up and
create a newer and better presence on the net. Market yourselves as
technologists, specialists, hobbyists etc on the skunks blog site,
there is no harm in this. There are so many kenyans who are doing it
on face book, twitter and other social media and making new contacts,
making new business, making themselves known so as to grow in their
fields or careers, get funding etc what is stopping anyone from this
list? You are all good at what you do.
With all that said, my focus now is the blog site and am already
working on my first article to post next weekend. I hope others will
become pioneers and join the race to make the site one of the top
resources not only in kenya but the region. This remains our in-direct
responsibilty and commitment to lay the framework and build upon.
Everything starts small, the growth is what we make it.
Too much said from me, I'll save the words for the blog site.
Me thots and catcup up soon. :-)
Best.