Some days ago, I’ve installed WordPress MU on erwin’s box, so that FreeBSD committers not willing to install one and maintain it could write some lines about their work on FreeBSD or FreeBSD related topics. While there wasn’t too many people asking for such a service at the time (I think only 2 or 3 committers explicitly said to me they were interested), I’ve been quite delighted to see that 3 days after the service opened, more than 20 committers already signed up. While people seem to enjoy blogging, the installed version is a snapshot made after large changes have been committed to the MU svn repository. Unfortunately this commit broke a lot of things (but not basics, so it’s still ok to post entries and comments), so I’ll wait to have a stable WordPress MU installation to ask for blogs.freebsd.org. I think FreeBSD blogs are quite successful. I wanted people to write about FreeBSD and they just did it. Thanks to everybody 
When I started the whole FreeBSD planet thingie (one year ago), only a few people knew about it. Back in september 2005 I asked core@ to make the thing a bit more official by assigning a CNAME under the freebsd.org domain. At that time, there has been a post by one of our bloggers (who wasn’t aware of the whole planet thing) which core@ judged inappropriate (everybody agreed on this). So the planet idea was postponed, and only to be revived one month ago. I then created a FreeBSD-only planet and complete one. Recent discussions showed that the problem was resolved, so it should be a matter of time before the CNAME RR is created.
I recently made some changes to the planet template and CSS, so it looks like a bit more a freebsd.org website (well, it’s red). I’ve helped simon@ to upgrade the FreeBSD Wiki to a recent version of moinmoin. I’ve also worked on a new theme for moinmoin (that you can see here), because it really sucks to use the default one.
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Hi. Great to know of another person who has tried to install WordPress MU.
Please do drop by http://www.wpmuforum.com to help up new users. It is still new but I think the site will take off very soon.