Using Blogs and IRC to build a new Linux community, Linuxfoo.org is on to something.
Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) January 31, 2005 -- For the past several months, Mark Angeli and a few others have been creating the Linuxfoo.org website and continually adding features that let Linux people build a community.
Lately, Mark has implemented personal Blogs and the IRC chat has started to get some interest. The current people involved with Linuxfoo (including myself) are devoted to sharing their experiences to help people with Linux. Of course, all the software used on Linuxfoo.org is open source and available for anyone. What Linuxfoo.org has done has integrated and organized different Open Source programs together (mostly based on PHP) into a great website. Besides having an active forum community, Linuxfoo is starting to organize some IRC chats to discuss specific topics as well has have an open discussion all the time (the IRC chat is on irc.oftc.net (join/ #linuxfoo). The idea is to develop some topics and then announce the chat to the general public.
For a nominal fee (from $10 to $50/year), members can create blogs, advertise, and even have their site hosted on Linuxfoo, as well as get other benefits as well. The price is good compared to other offers and again, there is a lot of different ways people can use the system. Blogging... Blogs have been receiving a lot of attention recently but a lot of people don't understand them. Linuxfoo is offering a nice blogging site to members for about $15/year. Powered by a popular PHP application these Blogs also offer an RSS feed so friends, family, and/or business partners can add them to their RSS reader.
Linux and open source has been about building communities. As the internet has grown it has been harder to find a good place to share information and keep up-to-date as well as have fun. Linuxfoo is on to something.
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