something like an iglu/what's up merge? Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > Hi Folks, > I concur with Gilad and the Makor board in the view that www.linux.org.il > should be a portal to all Linux activities in Israel, not just IGLU. We > need a portal that will sell Linux to the wider community, including folks > who are not English literate sys-admins. > > I do think that IGLU needs to re-define itself as a result of this change. > My suggestion would be that IGLU re-position itself in the post-sale > support market - that is, concentrate on giving good support to people > who are already sold on Linux, and on providing an Israeli, English > language Linux forum where the non Hebrew-speaking crowd will feel as > comfortable as it is possible to feel with us in any language. > Regards, > > - yba > > > > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > > > On Tuesday 30 September 2003 09:48, guy keren wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > > > That said, I think I'll take Ilya's design. You can view it at > > > > http://furr.shiny.co.il/linux.org.il/. Does anyone have any objections? > > > > > > no. after some text editing (i could do that if needed, once the text is > > > ready), some fixes to the 'what is linux' page (on galeon 1.2 that comes > > > with redhat 7.3, the images are shown on the left, on top of part of the > > > text), and completing the site, it could do well. > > > > Indeed. > > > > > > the only question to ask is - are we (iglu) letting go of the linux.org.il > > > domain in favor of such a neutral entry page? this is the question that > > > should have been asked - lets not do this change like thieves in the > > > night. and my vote would be 'a painfull ok' :0 > > > > Some background is due: the linux.org.il domain has been purchased and owned > > by Jonathan Ben Avraham for the purpose of serving the community and he chose > > to direct it to the IGLU web site. > > > > Jonatan was generous enough to donate the ownership of the domain to HaMakor > > under the condition that it will be used in accordance of HaMakor goals. As > > such, we consider ourselves to be stewreds (נאמנים) of this domain for the > > community. > > > > We (Hamakor board) believe that the domain will better serve the community as > > a general "portal" to Israeli Linux web resources, both Hebrew and otherwise > > (including IGLU, of course, but also the pengiun, whatsup, linux.israel.net, > > Haifux, TAUX, Perl/Python resources, various Linux forums, Hamakor and so > > forth), rather then a simple redirect to IGLU as it is now. > > > > Note that this is our opinion - not a decision, right now. If someone thinks > > that this is bad idea, please speak up. If someone has other ideas what to do > > with the domain *and is willing to implement them*, please speak up. In > > short, we're looking for feedback, but most important - for active help. > > > > Cheers, > > Gilad > > > > > > -- > EE 77 7F 30 4A 64 2E C5 83 5F E7 49 A6 82 29 BA ~. .~ Tk Open Systems > =}------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------------{= > - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il - > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
