Yeah, Chris and I chatted about this as well. And it might make sense in 
this case to just have the regular front page be static, and gave a 
"Wiki" link that goes to confluence.

Mike Pumphrey wrote:
> There was talk (offline) talk recently of reverting the GeoServer home 
> page to a non-Confluence page (apparently this was how it used to be in 
> years gone by), which might make it easier to have regional home pages...
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike Pumphrey
> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
> 
> 
> Arne Kepp wrote:
>> Overall I think it's a good idea. I guess we could use .br for the 
>> front page and pt where the language is more important than the location.
>>
>> It should be pretty easy to do, make a simple template for the front 
>> page where we just replace a few variables, and move our existing blog 
>> to WordPress MU so that the maintenance doesn't increase by a ton when 
>> we add more instances.
>>
>> I'm not sure we can easily do br.geoserver.org with Confluence, so we 
>> may have to to geoserver.org/pt (focus on the language) for that 
>> component, or maybe we don't need Confluence at all.
>>
>> -Arne
>>
>>
>> Justin Deoliveira wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Fernando and myself have been discussing some things related to 
>>> setting up a brazil specific geoserver site. We have some ideas and 
>>> would like to sum up our discussion to get feedback from the community.
>>>
>>> First off what Fernando wants is basically the regular geoserver home 
>>> page, but with a few tweaks.
>>>
>>> * A specific domain/host, we agreed that http://br.geoserver.org 
>>> would work well
>>>
>>> * The site translated into Portuguese (Brazilian)
>>>
>>> * The logo modified slightly. Nothing too drastic. Fernando suggested 
>>> maybe somehow just working the yellow/green color scheme into the 
>>> current logo. Be nice to get feedback on this one specifically.
>>>
>>> * Any links on the site made specific where appropriate. Things like 
>>> pointing the mailing list to the Brazilian mailing list, the blog 
>>> pointed to the translated geoserver blog, centering the ol map on 
>>> Brazil, etc...
>>>
>>> And that would be more or less it. What do people think about setting 
>>> up a language/country specific site in this way? Feedback welcome. I 
>>> could see this becoming the template for other communities that want 
>>> to set up a slightly more catered site.
>>>
>>> -Justin
>>>   
>>

-- 
Justin Deoliveira
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Enterprise support for open source geospatial.

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