Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread Frederic Muller
On 04/19/2011 10:37 PM, Christian Rose wrote: 2011/4/19 Danishka Navin: [...] > what i try to say is if you really have an issue with supporting us by > creating the subdomain and giving some space > the only solution is to create a basic blog at some where else. There seems to be some funda

Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread Christian Rose
2011/4/19 Danishka Navin : [...] > what i try to say is if you really have an issue with supporting us by > creating the subdomain and giving some space > the only solution is to create a basic blog at some where else. There seems to be some fundamental misunderstanding going on here. Most existi

Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread Danishka Navin
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 19:03 +0530, Danishka Navin wrote: > > Lets develop the product with minimal effort. is it ok? > > what the mater of creating the a subdomain and publishing the content? > > Well, what's the issue with coming up with so

[Fwd: Re: Upcoming t-shirt contest announcement]

2011-04-19 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Would it be possible to get the news of the t-shirt contest published on gnome.org also, please? Perhaps on the foundation blog and news.gnome.org? Thanks! Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org --- Begin Message --- On Thursday 14 April 2011 11:18:24 Chris Kühl wrote:

Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 19:03 +0530, Danishka Navin wrote: > Lets develop the product with minimal effort. is it ok? > what the mater of creating the a subdomain and publishing the content? Well, what's the issue with coming up with some basic identification of requirements first that doesn't only c

Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 07:03:47PM +0530, Danishka Navin wrote: > Why we localize? > Why we market the product? > Why do we release parties? We are talking about different things. I am not after if you get a subdomain or not. That's totally fine. I understand for marketing you want something '$NA

Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 19:07 +0530, Danishka Navin wrote: > have you ever seen a multilingual web portal? :) Argh, I just read it totally wrong initially (mixing up lk with ta and si). Sorry for the noise! andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper | http://www.openis

Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread Danishka Navin
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:01 PM, sankarshan wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Danishka Navin > wrote: > > > This is not just for the Gnome 3 release but for Gnome Community Building > > and Marketing. > > I think the question Olav has for you is along the lines of what are > the priority

Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread Danishka Navin
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Andre Klapper wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 05:19 -0600, Christer Edwards wrote: > > (I need to side with Olav in this case > > and use the lk.gnome.org language based sub-domain. > > Not directly related, still: How is this expected to work out for > countries w

Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread Danishka Navin
The point is that I don't understand the needs / requirements. For instance, latest email specifies 'community building'. We might set up something which might not be beneficial. -- Regards, Olav Why we localize? Why we market the product? Why do we release parties? Lets develop the product with

Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread sankarshan
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Danishka Navin wrote: > This is not just for the Gnome 3 release but for Gnome Community Building > and Marketing. I think the question Olav has for you is along the lines of what are the priority features you'd like in the WP instance to help you build GNOME com

Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 06:27:58PM +0530, Danishka Navin wrote: > This is not just for the Gnome 3 release but for Gnome Community Building > and Marketing. What functionality do you expect on such a subdomain? - Basic HTML only, use VIM to edit anything - http access to make HTML pages + simple

Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 06:55:22AM -0600, Christer Edwards wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: > > It first starts off with 'events'. Wordpress doesn't do 'events'. It is > > going to be wasteful if we spend time setting something up if apparently > > everything is fine (

Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread Danishka Navin
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Christer Edwards < christer.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Sureshkumar Packiyarajah > wrote: > > Dear Olav, > > > > behalf of snavin(our Gnome community member in srilanka) is already using > > git so i am totally agreed with Danishka

Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread Danishka Navin
Hi Olav, > But what are your requirements? > > It first starts off with 'events'. Wordpress doesn't do 'events'. It is > going to be wasteful if we spend time setting something up if apparently > everything is fine (plain HTML and Wordpress). > > E.g. with a CMS or Wordpress I don't see anyone h

Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread Christer Edwards
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: > It first starts off with 'events'. Wordpress doesn't do 'events'. It is > going to be wasteful if we spend time setting something up if apparently > everything is fine (plain HTML and Wordpress). > > E.g. with a CMS or Wordpress I don't see an

Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 05:08:20PM +0530, Danishka Navin wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Christer Edwards < > christer.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Sureshkumar Packiyarajah > > wrote: > > > Dear Olav, > > > > > > behalf of snavin(our Gnome community m

Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 05:19 -0600, Christer Edwards wrote: > (I need to side with Olav in this case > and use the lk.gnome.org language based sub-domain. Not directly related, still: How is this expected to work out for countries with more than one language, like... Sri Lanka, for example? andre

Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread Christer Edwards
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Sureshkumar Packiyarajah wrote: > Dear Olav, > > behalf of snavin(our Gnome community member in srilanka) is already using > git so i am totally agreed with Danishka Navin suggestion for the onward > moving step to get srilanka.gnome.org.in order to have Git we can

Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

2011-04-19 Thread Sureshkumar Packiyarajah
Dear Olav, behalf of snavin(our Gnome community member in srilanka) is already using git so i am totally agreed with Danishka Navin suggestion for the onward moving step to get srilanka.gnome.org.in order to have Git we can not do much things so we prefer to have sub domain under Gnome. thanks in