Re: [gugmasters] Event pre-work page and GNOME Domain.
Dear Emily, Great thanks for big help. cheers to Danishka and Bckurera. Regards, Suresh On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Emily Chen emilychen...@gmail.com wrote: I am waiting for the GNOME admin's reply on the domain: srilanka.gnome.org Feel free to ping us if something urgent. -emily 2011/4/19 Sureshkumar Packiyarajah sures...@gmail.com Dear Emily, Thanks for the email. I know him very well.we all are working under the srilanka open source. thanks for your clarification i am totally agreed wit you. Tanks in advance. Best Regards, Suresh On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Emily Chen emilychen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Suresh, I have received request from Danishka for the same domain name recently: srilanka.gnome.org Do you know Danishka, you two work together ? -Emily 2011/4/16 Suresh Packiyarajah sure...@fedoraproject.org Dear folks, In-order to connect our(lk) GNOME user to rest of world i am willing to requested domain of srilanka.gnome.org or lk.gnome.org. i asked to gnome-infrastruct...@gnome.org still i did not get any reaction from them.we are happy to here any positive answer about it. additional info about the event in srilanka.today we had APAC meeting during the meeting i have given my tasks status[1] also you can see pre work of the event. [1]:-https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_lk_prework Thanks for your valuable time and encourage us.we are look forward to here from you all. Thank You. Best Regards, Suresh - --- Fedora Ambassador - Sri Lanka. Key fingerprint = 80F2 6188 4A9C 82B9 5C10 0B89 D540 CA17 071D DF70 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Suresht ___ gugmasters-list mailing list gugmasters-l...@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gugmasters-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org
Hi Olav, But what are your requirements? It first starts off with 'events'. Wordpress doesn't do 'events'. It is going to be wasteful if we spend time setting something up if apparently everything is fine (plain HTML and Wordpress). E.g. with a CMS or Wordpress I don't see anyone handling conferences.. maybe some plugin exists, but if we don't know, we (sysadmins) won't plan for it (or even have time for it). Please give some thought to what is really needed. We might not be able to provide it, but at least we'll know up front. -- Regards, Olav This is not just for the Gnome 3 release but for Gnome Community Building and Marketing. I am contributing to Gnome for several years as l10n coordinator and also conducting workshops around the country. As you all know l10n dashboard is ok for l10n but not for other Gnome fans from my community. We can post about upcoming and completed events as well as Gnome specific information in our own language. This is kind of long term plan, yes we can use external resources such as blogspot or WP but its not good for Gnome branding. Anyway I would like to keep the same Gnome.org theme on the srilanka.gnome.org portal as well. Thanks, -- Danishka Navin http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/danishkanavin http://identi.ca/danishka -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Christer Edwards christer.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Sureshkumar Packiyarajah sures...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Olav, behalf of snavin(our Gnome community member in srilanka) is already using git so i am totally agreed with Danishka Navin suggestion for the onward moving step to get srilanka.gnome.org.in order to have Git we can not do much things so we prefer to have sub domain under Gnome. Do you already have content ready to push to the GNOME servers when this subdomain is configured? (I need to side with Olav in this case and use the lk.gnome.org language based sub-domain. If you do not have content might I suggest using Wordpress hosted on th GNOME servers. You can work on themes via git, but the content itself can be managed via the web interface. OK, WP is fine :) My thoughts anyway. Christer ___ gnome-infrastructure mailing list gnome-infrastruct...@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure -- Danishka Navin http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/danishkanavin http://identi.ca/danishka -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 06:55:22AM -0600, Christer Edwards wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: It first starts off with 'events'. Wordpress doesn't do 'events'. It is going to be wasteful if we spend time setting something up if apparently everything is fine (plain HTML and Wordpress). E.g. with a CMS or Wordpress I don't see anyone handling conferences.. maybe some plugin exists, but if we don't know, we (sysadmins) won't plan for it (or even have time for it). Please give some thought to what is really needed. We might not be able to provide it, but at least we'll know up front. Wordpress has plugins for *everything*. I'm sure we can find one for events and registrations. I may have some time today to look for a plugin, but I may need a reminder. The point is that I don't understand the needs / requirements. For instance, latest email specifies 'community building'. We might set up something which might not be beneficial. -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org
The point is that I don't understand the needs / requirements. For instance, latest email specifies 'community building'. We might set up something which might not be beneficial. -- Regards, Olav Why we localize? Why we market the product? Why do we release parties? Lets develop the product with minimal effort. is it ok? what the mater of creating the a subdomain and publishing the content? I don't get it. I asked if basic HTML is enough, it was. Then wordpress is fine too.. now you say blogspot / WP is not good enough? Maybe explain it in another way: I can make a search.gnome.org subdomain and point it towards the same machine as www.google.com. All the technical bits are handled by google. Only thing GNOME does is the name. what i try to say is if you really have an issue with supporting us by creating the subdomain and giving some space the only solution is to create a basic blog at some where else. Danishka Navin http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/danishkanavin http://identi.ca/danishka -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Andre Klapper ak...@gmx.net wrote: On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 05:19 -0600, Christer Edwards wrote: (I need to side with Olav in this case and use the lk.gnome.org language based sub-domain. Not directly related, still: How is this expected to work out for countries with more than one language, like... Sri Lanka, for example? have you ever seen a multilingual web portal? :) Please do not waste the time by asking such questions. I am really disappointed. if you badly need example http://southernlug.org/ (English and Sinhala) gov.lk all three languages andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper | http://www.openismus.com ___ gnome-infrastructure mailing list gnome-infrastruct...@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure -- Danishka Navin http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/danishkanavin http://identi.ca/danishka -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:01 PM, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Danishka Navin danis...@gmail.com wrote: This is not just for the Gnome 3 release but for Gnome Community Building and Marketing. I think the question Olav has for you is along the lines of what are the priority features you'd like in the WP instance to help you build GNOME community and effectively market GNOME in Sri Lanka. That should allow a discussion along whether it is feasible or, whether plug-ins exist. Basic WP, Calendering Social Network Integration Multilingual support (is possible) there was a plugin if not we can manage with categories. -- Danishka Navin http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/danishkanavin http://identi.ca/danishka -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org
On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 19:07 +0530, Danishka Navin wrote: have you ever seen a multilingual web portal? :) Argh, I just read it totally wrong initially (mixing up lk with ta and si). Sorry for the noise! andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper | http://www.openismus.com -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 07:03:47PM +0530, Danishka Navin wrote: Why we localize? Why we market the product? Why do we release parties? We are talking about different things. I am not after if you get a subdomain or not. That's totally fine. I understand for marketing you want something '$NAME.gnome.org'. Again, totally fine. What I want to understand is what *functionality* you need. So say it in yet another way: Bad example: I can make a $NAME.gnome.org and if you point your browser to it, you get an error message that it cannot find the site. This because I don't setup a website. Could be because I assumed you only wanted some email aliases. Or: I didn't understand your needs for $NAME.gnome.org. Now, I understand you want something like a website, but what functionality the website should have is totally unclear. So what I am requesting is what functionality you're after. This to ensure when it is setup, it does what you thought it would do. Lets develop the product with minimal effort. is it ok? what the mater of creating the a subdomain and publishing the content? That is not minimal effort. If I do not get what you want, it'll result in a lot of work on my side to continuously change as you make the requirements of the site known. E.g. maybe I setup the email aliases and you wanted a website. Means a lot of work for me to remove the email aliases configuration and then setup a website. I want to understand *up front* what you're requesting from the sysadmin team. Subdomain is very vague! Website I understand, functionality: no idea. I don't get it. I asked if basic HTML is enough, it was. Then wordpress is fine too.. now you say blogspot / WP is not good enough? Maybe explain it in another way: I can make a search.gnome.org subdomain and point it towards the same machine as www.google.com. All the technical bits are handled by google. Only thing GNOME does is the name. what i try to say is if you really have an issue with supporting us by creating the subdomain and giving some space the only solution is to create a basic blog at some where else. Please re-read my message. Saying subdomain to me is not at all specific. I do not get at all what you want. It is not about setting something up. 'some space'.. I don't get it. Please explain the needs more concretely. -- Regards, Olav -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org
On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 19:03 +0530, Danishka Navin wrote: Lets develop the product with minimal effort. is it ok? what the mater of creating the a subdomain and publishing the content? Well, what's the issue with coming up with some basic identification of requirements first that doesn't only consist of buzzwords, so infrastructure folks (mostly also volunteers) can start some actual planning and allocate time for specific needs, instead of investigating in something that's not really used later on? To me it looks like you miss the point... andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper | http://www.openismus.com -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
[Fwd: Re: Upcoming t-shirt contest announcement]
Hi, Would it be possible to get the news of the t-shirt contest published on gnome.org also, please? Perhaps on the foundation blog and news.gnome.org? Thanks! Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ---BeginMessage--- On Thursday 14 April 2011 11:18:24 Chris Kühl wrote: I propose we announce this at the beginning of next week as Friday ain't a good day for it and I'm assuming we'll be finalizing it today. contest published today: https://www.desktopsummit.org/ http://dot.kde.org/2011/04/19/desktop-summit-t-shirt-design-competition http://identi.ca/notice/71418555 https://mail.kde.org/mailman/private/ds-announce/2011-April/01.html http://blixtra.org/blog/2011/04/19/desktop-summit-t-shirt-contest/ -- Kenny ___ Ds-team mailing list ds-t...@desktopsummit.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/ds-team ---End Message--- -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org
2011/4/19 Danishka Navin danis...@gmail.com: [...] what i try to say is if you really have an issue with supporting us by creating the subdomain and giving some space the only solution is to create a basic blog at some where else. There seems to be some fundamental misunderstanding going on here. Most existing local community sites, to the best of my knowledge, use some other ISP, and use a LL.gnome.org subdomain (language code) or gnome.CC (country code) domain to point to that ISP. I.e. nothing is hosted on GNOME servers, the GNOME domain just points to it, wherever it is hosted. However, for practical reasons with maintaining and for continuity, it is best to let the GNOME Foundation own the domain, and the GNOME sysadmin team manage the domain data. But still, we're only talking about a domain, not content. Even though the GNOME Foundation owns many local GNOME domains, and the GNOME sysadmin team manages the domain data, the content is often hosted elsewhere, because the needs differ between local communities, and GNOME cannot have the same variety of offerings and support as any ISP. GNOME is a community project, mostly made by volunteers. So is the sysadmin team as well. GNOME is not and can never be an ISP with a support contract. If that is what you want, you should contact a commercial ISP. Olav, a hard working volunteer, is working hard figuring out what specific technical bits you need, if you really want your site hosted on the GNOME servers. So far there has unfortunately been little detail. Please be kind and specific. Otherwise volunteer community sysadmins may not be able to help you. Christian -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
