Good evening.
I think most of you will know the site www.spreadfirefox.com
We are currently discussing such a site for openoffice.org.
It's main aim would be to help spreading openoffice.
It would run on drupal CMS / civicspace.
The OSU Open Source Labs provided a server, to which I got access a few days ago.
One of the developers of spreadfirefox.com offered his help, too.
On the marketing mailing list, there is currently a long discussion about what kinds of content should be on the site and what not, and internationalization was one of the things which were propsed by the majority.
There are currently 2 approaches to internationalization:
- via drupal's i18n-module. This would mean, that sOOo would be a multiliangual website, so it would be ONE website for ALL countries. Each peace of content (called "node" in drupal) can be translated into every language. The user sees only the content in the languages he specified. Affiliate- and usersystem would be worldwide.
- via the "multi site"-ability of drupal. Each language would have a own database. The sites would be totally independent from each other, so each one would have it's OWN user- and affiliatesystem, even the main menu structure could differ.
I regret, but I think I'm not capable of summing up the whole discussion in one mail, there were over 80 mails posted in 2 threads dealing with this topic.
But I include a few extracts that deal with the main targets and/or functions of the site:
Frando schrieb:
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The most important feature of spreadfirefox apart from the community is the affiliate program, willing people put banners for firefox on their webpages, spreadfirefox counts the banner clicks and presents the statistics.
This feature would IMO simply be perfect for OOo.
I know, we have the marketing project page. But for someone who just want to put a banner on his page, its rather complicated to find.
And the affiliate program would give webmaster a incentive to put a OOo-Banner on a good place on their website. [...]
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Frando wrote:
Hello.
First of all, you can take a look at the beta-version of my skin propsal for sOOo at www.spreadopenoffice.org.
I'm not done with this yet, if you have ideas to improve it, just give them to me. For example, the "GET openoffice.org"-box could get a nice artwork, it would be great if someone could create one.
But now I'll try to summarize the thread:
- Categorically, we need a site like spreadopenoffice.
- There are 2 proposals for the orientation of the site:
- more static site, no public user managment, no bulletin boards. End-user-information and link collection. Maybe affiliate system.
- more dynamic site with possibilty for everyone to register and add content (blogs). Community style with bulletin boards. Affiliate system.
- For internationalization, I think there are also 2 possibilities how to realize it with drupal:
- via the i18n-module. This would mean, that sOOo would be a multiliangual website, so it would be ONE website for ALL countries. Each peace of content (called "node" in drupal) can be translated into every language. The user sees only the content in the languages he specified. Affiliate- and usersystem would be worldwide.
- via the "multi site"-ability of drupal. Each language would have a own database. The sites would be totally independent from each other, so each one would have it's OWN user- and affiliatesystem, even the main menu structure could differ.
Espacially if we'd chose the second way (independent sites) we would need people from each country willing to create content and to be in charge of the page.
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Until now, the whole project has been discussed in the marketing mailing list, so more information can be found there (archives).
So if someone is interested in participating, I am sure we will need your help ;)
regards, frando
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