Andreas, Christer has already helped me configure us.gnome.org to my Web server so that I can begin building the usergroup site for the USA. I believe your idea might be a better structure for the site... instead of building a WordPress/BuddyPress community for the USA, we can build a more global usergroup site and provide sub-groups/categories for each region. usergroups.gnome.org makes more sense.
Should I contact Christer to update the subdomain? I could build usergroups.gnome.org and then provide group administrators with access to their specific group on the site. BuddyPress has great user levels for group moderation which I think will fit the GNOME community very well: http://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/group-settings-and-roles/ Also, there is a great plugin for creating a group hierarchy: http://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-group-hierarchy/ so we could easily set up a structure of USA, USA/MIA, etc. Steven Mautone [email protected] http://www.inverted.com (917) 512-9694 <http://www.inverted.com/> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Andreas Nilsson <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Steven! > Great to see more web hackers around. > > > On 05/10/2011 01:17 AM, Steven Mautone wrote: > > Upon speaking with the User Group team it became evident that my skills and > resources are best focused on Web development. Brian Cameron suggested that > I get in contact with the Marketing team in order to see if there was any > overlap. > > Building a site for User Groups sounds like a great idea, and it wouldn't > really have to be restricted to the user groups in USA only. > Say we have a space called www.gnome.org/usergroups or maybe > usergroups.gnome.org. This would list all active user groups across the > world and would allow you to find a local user group near where you live. > www.gnome.org/usergroups/mia could then be the site for the GNOME Miami > community. That page could feature upcoming events, a contact person etc. > I created a page with ideas here > https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/UserGroups > Add more ideas to it, then we can start doing mockups and proper planning > after that. > > Brian also noted that the Friends of GNOME site (gnome.org/friends) is > not functioning. I'd love to help get this site working if my WordPress > skills can be of assistance. > > The site is not actually broken, only the redirect, > http://www.gnome.org/friends/ (with the slash at the end should work). But > yes, we should totally port this to the Wordpress instance so your Wordpress > skill should come very handy here! > I started some work on a new version of the Friends site back in January, > but then got occupied by other things. > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2011-January/msg00007.html > > There is currently a html version of it here: > http://gitorious.org/gnome-design/gnome-design/trees/master/www/friends-of-gnome-2.0and > it just needs some extra work to get it integrated into the regular > gnome.org site. > The wordpress site is hosted here http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnomeweb-wpand > should have everything for doing a local install for hacking purposes. > - Andreas > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > >
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