[pkg-bioc] Improving on our shared repository?

[elw at stderr.org]

I've put up a start at http://planetr.stderr.org/

I've not yet put any effort into contacting the folks whose feeds are 
being aggregated, to ask permission; that needs to be done pretty soon.

Any suggestions that any of you want to put forth are welcomed.  I don't 
have a lot of time invested in the template used, and would actually 
appreciate it if someone with better aesthetic sense took a stab at a 
custom CSS file - if I do it, it *will* be pretty ugly. ;-)

At any rate - this is a start on something.

I'd like to have 15-20 active feeds in the thing before kicking it toward 
the r-core folks and asking for a dns alias into r-project.org's 
namespace.

Dirk, I tried to track down an RSS feed for Philippe - not much luck.  Do 
you have something you had in mind?  sciviews.org doesn't seem to have 
much in the way of rss...

Does anybody have a close enough relationship with Jan deLeeuw to perhaps 
beg him to RSS-enable JoSS?  :-)  That would be fantastic.  Same sort of 
idea, applied to the R News / newsletter, would be great too.


--elijah


On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:13:35 -0500
> From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
> To: elw at stderr.org
> Cc: pkg-bioc-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org,
>     Steffen Moeller <moeller at inb.uni-luebeck.de>
> Subject: Re: [pkg-bioc] Improving on our shared repository?
> 
>
> On 20 June 2007 at 15:09, elw at stderr.org wrote:
> | While I'm at it...
> |
> | if any of you have recommendations for blogs that deal with R or stats,
> | and can put me in contact with those bloggers, I'd appreciate it.  I'm
> | working on putting together a "planet R" kind of site... and it will need
> | content. ;-)
>
> Yes please!!!
>
> I (very informally) made the same suggestion at useR last yeat noticing how I
> blogged from there. I talked to two guys about it -- one of them was Simon
> Jackman, who as a Mac user has a very fancy and good looking blog at his site
> (google him, he's a pol science prof at Stanford).  The other one may have
> been Philppe Grosjean, but I am no longer sure.  The only other R blogger I
> can think of is Debian maintainer and wandering pol scientist Chris Lawrence
> (http://blog.lordsutch.com) but you have to tolerant of raving political
> rants if you go there :)
>
> Kidding aside, we could really do with a planet R.
>
> Dirk
>
>