Hello everyone: I am new in the list and would like to help you out with DebianEdu/Skolelinux. As of now, I am just a FLOSS enthusiast, so I am not a technical expert (at least not yet), so perhaps the best way I can help you is using my Spanish skills (I am Mexican) to help on the Wiki, HowTos, documentation, etc.
Please, let me know where to begin, there are a lot documentation here and there, which I have been reading, but not sure if I am in the right direction. Regards. Edgardo On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]> wrote: > [Alexander Alemayhu] >> Hei everybody, > > Hi, and thank you for bringing this up on the list and trying to move > this issue forward! > >> skolelinux.org has been unavailable for awhile now. Not sure how long. >> According to Petter the site has been taken over. One of the reasons >> this might have happened is because of lack of maintenance. I propose >> we do the following: Get the site up from one of the previous backups, >> on a new machine and do damage control and update DNS when the new >> site is ready. Why get the site up? It think it would be nice to not >> to break the links that other people around the web use directing to >> skolelinux.org. There has been some communication on IRC where C14r >> and pabs have also shown interest. What do you think we should? > > The problem with missing maintenance of www.skolelinux.org is not new. > It has popped up every few years in the project since the start. I > suspect it is mostly because those setting up a new www.skolelinux.org > site do it to test out some new and cool technology, and fail to focus > on low maintenance load and lowering the of bar for contributors. Also, > fine grained access control features have proved to create hurdles > keeping potential contributors away. > > That is the background for my view on this, as we have had site after > site with very few people updating and slowly decaying until someone > else took over and tried again. > > I guess we have these options. > > (1) Set up a version of the current www.skolelinux.org (ie Joomla!) and > copy the content from backup and try to do a better job maintaining > it in the future than the last years. This make it fairly easy to > get a multi-lingual site up and running. > > (2) Set up a new version of www.skolelinux.org using some one and > exciting technology, and see if things go better this time. > Assuming a good choice of CMS, this should make it fairly easy to > get a multi-lingual site up and running. > > (3) Stop maintaining our own web site and point www.skolelinux.org to > the Debian Edu wiki, where we are almost able to keep updating the > content. <URL: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/ > do not handle > several languages very well. > > (4) Stop maintaining our own web server, but set up a new site on > <URL: http://debian-edu.alioth.debian.org/ > and fill it with nice > pages populated from git or subversion. > > I really believe we should leave web server maintenance to someone with > time to do so on a regular and continous basis, and avoid maintaining > more than the minimum kind of web site unless someone is willing to > commit to running such site for many years. But we also should have a > www.skolelinux.org that present information to non-english people in > their native language, and none of the "easy" options provide this as > far as I know. Would be best if we could handle translations using PO > files like we do with programs and documentation. > > -- > Happy hacking > Petter Reinholdtsen > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CACC-8O4F0PTZAw9QUr2wBXDwbSTrhKvLxb+Ofq0XmXpCvvA=n...@mail.gmail.com
