On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Alvaro Lopez Ortega <[email protected]>wrote:
> As far as I'm aware of, the current (incipient) communities are: Poland, > China, Hispano (spanish speaking) and Italy. Besides, I know there have been > conversations about a German community, but certainly nothing as specific as > a region inside the US. > Whoa! The whole U.S. is /wide/ open? Interesting. While I have MANY more questions in regards to how other communities have been organized and where they're placing their focus in regards to UG meetups, regional events, etc. the question that I am most curious about at the moment is your thoughts on allocating a sub-domain of cherokee-project.com (e.g. communities.cherokee-project.com or local.cherokee-project.com, etc.) which could be further extended by the two letter country code related to each region at the subdomain level, using the path to dig down into the specific regions that are bound to develop as they have in pretty much every other major tech community space here in the U.S. e.g. Both the Python and Ruby communities have self organized at various regional levels to allow for shorter travel times, a focus on the tech economy relevant to the region the attendees live and work in, etc. In this regard, using a subdomain.domain.com structure similar to us.communities.cherokee-project.com and allowing for the path structure to evolve based on the self organizational tendencies of each regional community to pretty much just decide to push forward with the creation of a local user group, support community, etc., leaving the root of the path to break things down by user-groups, conferences, IRC-based regional support groups, etc. for "registration" on a first-come, first-served based (e.g. us.communities.cherokee-project.com/conference/mountain-west or us.communities.cherokee-project.com/irc/bay-area, etc. I realize the above probably seems a bit over the top, but having been a card carrying member of the U.S.-based tech communities for coming up on 27 years now I can attest to the fact that here in the U.S. people like to do things their own way, and appreciate any and all efforts made by the top-level folks in each top-level community to accommodate them in ways that make it easy for them to just pick things up and run with whatever area they decide to focus on in whatever region of the U.S. they decide to place that focus. In the above regard, if you'd be willing to consider the possibility of allocating a subdomain of cherokee-project.com specific to the purpose at hand, using the two letter country code as a subdomain of whatever that chose might be allow for an easily recognizable tiered domain name structure which allows nicely for spreading the load of each major region of the world across multiple server/server farms donated by the community, then I'd like to follow sandino.net's lead and offer a complete hosting solution, fully powered by cherokee of course, which keeps a consistent theme with the primary site which would be specific to the U.S. market. Thoughts? -- /M:D M. David Peterson Co-Founder & Chief Architect, 3rd&Urban, LLC Email: [email protected] | [email protected] Mobile: (801) 742-1864 http://3rdandUrban.com | http://amp.fm | http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2354 | http://broadcast.oreilly.com/m-david-peterson/
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