[ubuntu-in] Redesign the Ubuntu India website

2010-09-03 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Hey Guys, How about redesigning the Ubuntu India website in accordance with the new Ubuntu design guidelines... If you guys want it we can do it together, starting with our coulour paletter, new logo. etc etc. Let me know. Maitraya K B. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-in] Redesign the Ubuntu India website

2010-09-03 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Let's start with the new colour palette. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] Redesign the Ubuntu India website

2010-09-04 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
to share your efforts and others can help out too Warm Regards Nigel Babu On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Anirudh S anirudh24se...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to contribute too ! On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Maitraya Bhattacharyya maitraya.li...@gmail.com wrote: Let's start

Re: [ubuntu-in] Redesign the Ubuntu India website

2010-09-04 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Hi people, Let's start working!!! *Guys, lets move over to ubuntu-in.wikia.com and collaborate there.* What we need: 1. A mediawiki theme coder guy. ANSWER IF YOU ARE THERE 2. A group of cool guys SOMEONE PUT UP A THREAD IN THE UBUNTU INDIA FORUMS AND UBUNTU FORUMS THAT WE ARE

Re: [ubuntu-in] Redesign the Ubuntu India website

2010-09-04 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
GUYS WORK STARTS FROM 7:00 PM IST TODAY on the WIKI -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] Redesign the Ubuntu India website

2010-09-04 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Yes of course On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Ramnarayan.K ramnaraya...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Maitraya Bhattacharyya maitraya.li...@gmail.com wrote: GUYS and Non Guys also are welcome i suppose :-) ram -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-in] Redesign the Ubuntu India website

2010-09-04 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
We can work on your ideas. But let's start with something simple like a wiki. That's why we discuss everything on ubuntu-in.wikia.com Post your logos there. The final design can then be done via launchpad. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Nitesh Mistry mail...@mistrynitesh.netwrote: On Sat, Sep

Re: [ubuntu-in] Redesign the Ubuntu India website

2010-09-04 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Hey guys ubuntu-in.wikia.com is ready for contributing!!! Jump in everyone!!! [?] 338.gif-- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] Redesign the Ubuntu India website

2010-09-04 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
First we discuss the design. Then we start writing the code. On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Nitesh Mistry mail...@mistrynitesh.netwrote: On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 12:59:16PM +0530, Pratul Kalia wrote: I have a couple of thoughts about this initiative. Essentially, we need 2 things: a theme

Re: [ubuntu-in] Redesign the Ubuntu India website

2010-09-04 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Look at this media wiki site: We need something like this. http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] grub missing

2010-09-04 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
If you still cant recover, use the Ubuntu Live CD to recover the documents by burning them to cds or moving them to a partition. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] Redesign the Ubuntu India website

2010-09-05 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
I respect your ideas. But to tell you truly, India is so diverse that you end up with at least 15 languages on the website which is quite a challenging task. But most of us understand English. So the main site should be in english where the LoCo translation teams can localise it. On Sun, Sep 5,

Re: [ubuntu-in] All hands on the deck!

2010-10-16 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
We are using wordpress at the moment. I have alreasy designed a new theme and a logo.. I spoke to a web admin (Aanjhan) and we will be testing it soon... For those who wish to participatejump in. I'll tell you what to do. Maitraya. On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Anmol Sarma

[ubuntu-in] The new website is under contruction

2010-11-07 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Hi everyone, I am doing the new ubuntu-in website. See the site at http://ui.xinh.org/ and be patient. Some time is required. And Narendra and others who have been enthusiastic about this, please feel free to burn me with your comments (whenever necessary). We will need authors soon to create

Re: [ubuntu-in] The new website is under contruction

2010-11-08 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
All right, let me clear this up. 1. Theme is OK. SEO optimised. Will be (and is being) divided into categories. 2. The logo is there just for the sake of being there. We will have a poll (let's see when). I'll keep you guys updated on this. (1.5-2 weeks required, first the site has to be set

Re: [ubuntu-in] The new website is under contruction

2010-11-08 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Oh I forgot. People designing banners, wallpapers, etc please contact me here. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] The new website is under contruction

2010-11-08 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Now you can create your user account from the website. By default, you are given author priviledges i.e. you can write new articles but cannot edit old ones. Ask an admin to correct any old article or if you are responsible enough, tell me and I will give you editor priviledges. -- ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] The new website is under contruction

2010-11-08 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
I was so stupid. Not allowing users to modify old content is a drawback. Now when you register, all users are authors. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] The new website is under contruction

2010-11-10 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Why don't you suggest one? On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:24 PM, fahad fazil fahad.fazil...@gmail.comwrote: I think the permalink structure should be updated in wordpress On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Maitraya Bhattacharyya maitraya.li...@gmail.com wrote: I was so stupid. Not allowing

Re: [ubuntu-in] The new website is under contruction

2010-11-10 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Hi all, I am trying to work on the new slideshow. Any suggestion of any Ubuntu-India centric content? Maitraya. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

[ubuntu-in] The logo poll

2010-11-10 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Submit your logos. We will have the poll on Sunday. Hurry! Maitraya. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] The new website is under contruction

2010-11-12 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Great pics. Will be using one or two. Thanks everyone. Maitraya. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

[ubuntu-in] New Logo poll

2010-11-12 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Hi everyone, vote for the new Ubuntu-in logo. To do so, go here: http://polldaddy.com/poll/4079461/ or my blog http://openfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/11/13/ubuntu-india-new-logo/ Poll closes on 20th Nov. Everone, please vote for your favourite logo, Thanks, Maitraya. -- ubuntu-in mailing list

[ubuntu-in] The logo

2010-11-13 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Our main concerns with every logo on the poll is the chakra. When your logo is too small, you cannot really make out if its a chakra. Any suggestions for any alternative symbol? Anyone? Maitraya. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-in] The new website and new content

2010-11-18 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Hi all, Good to see a few of you have already created your user accounts already (thanks Anmol, Farhad, Jagadeesh, Nitesh, Sandip, :-). I know you people are busy with a lot of things, but it would really speed things up if you grab hold of one article in your spare time, clean it and update it

Re: [ubuntu-in] The new website and new content

2010-11-19 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
No actually you got me wrong Nitesh and sorry for the wrong link. I was suggesting an Ubuntu India music album. Like this: http://www.gaia10.us/music/ The link is broken (at least it didn't open the expected site). You mean some music will play when the site is opened? I guess that will be too

[ubuntu-in] Will be inactive for a while on the new website

2010-12-29 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Hi everyone, I'm mingo (Maitraya). This is to inform you guys that the progress on the new website will be slow as I am taking a break for my ISC exams this March. Therefore I will be inactive till 30th March 2011 and my (offline and online) work on the website will be suspended till then. Sorry

Re: [ubuntu-in] Will be inactive for a while on the new website

2010-12-29 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
, Maitraya Bhattacharyya maitraya.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I'm mingo (Maitraya). This is to inform you guys that the progress on the new website will be slow as I am taking a break for my ISC exams this March. Therefore I will be inactive till 30th March 2011 and my (offline and online

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu India LoCo approval renewal

2011-02-20 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Hi AR, Just thought I'd check my email after a long time and I found this. I've got no problem from my side. My practical exams are going on, so its difficult to check emails everyday, but I'll try to stay in touch if you reply. Will try, And will be back by 31st March, Humbly, Maitraya. On

[ubuntu-in] The new website theme

2011-04-05 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Hi all, Mingo here. Ready to work on the new website. Now as you might know, the new website is going to be build upon wordpress, we need a decent wordpress theme. Now I had earlier given a rough site with a slider based orange wordpress theme (modified Division theme), I myself think that it is

Re: [ubuntu-in] The new website theme

2011-04-05 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Wordpress is kinda easier. And has righ WYSIWYG editor, nice plugins, and it gets the job done in this case. So why not? M. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] The new website theme

2011-04-05 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Not really. It can be used to do much more than that. Many good sites use wordpress and you never get the feel its a blog... it's a publishing platform in general. On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Stereotactic maill...@postinbox.com wrote: But it doesn't scale up; thats what I heard. WP is

Re: [ubuntu-in] The new website theme

2011-04-06 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Thanks, great resource. But can you single out the best. On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:08 AM, Lalremlien Neitham lalreml...@gmail.comwrote: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/08/19/100-free-high-quality-wordpress-themes-for-2010/ On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Maitraya Bhattacharyya

Re: [ubuntu-in] The new website theme

2011-04-06 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
We need a simple theme, uncluttered with a frontpage slider. Got it dude? M. On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Maitraya Bhattacharyya maitraya.li...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, great resource. But can you single out the best. On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:08 AM, Lalremlien Neitham lalreml

Re: [ubuntu-in] The new website theme

2011-04-06 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
). You can probably use a jquery/ wp plugin for the frontpage slider. On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Maitraya Bhattacharyya maitraya.li...@gmail.com wrote: We need a simple theme, uncluttered with a frontpage slider. Got it dude? M. On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Maitraya

[ubuntu-in] Website content

2011-04-19 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Anyone has any idea what could go into the new website as content/how-to/tricks etc?? Please tell me here. I am working on the new site. Maitraya aka mingo. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] Website content

2011-04-19 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
I've mirrored the old site and whatever is there goes up in the new one.. I was talking about articles. On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Nigel Babu nigelb...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Maitraya Bhattacharyya maitraya.li...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone has any idea what

Re: [ubuntu-in] Website content

2011-04-19 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
We are not using the ubuntu theme for our site by the way. It has to be more unique to represent our LoCo. On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Maitraya Bhattacharyya maitraya.li...@gmail.com wrote: I've mirrored the old site and whatever is there goes up in the new one.. I was talking about

[ubuntu-in] Website theme decided

2011-04-20 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Hi All, We couldn't get Filtered wordpress theme for our site. So for now this is the one I am going for http://www.elegantthemes.com/preview/Nova/ nice and sleek. Any comments? Got something better? Tell me here, Maitraya. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-in] Website theme decided

2011-04-20 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
All old content is going in with edits. First we need to sort them out. I have the entire site mirrored and will upload everything when we get wordpress up and running. Also we will have: 1. OpenID login (so log in with launchpad account = nice wordpress plugin). 2. Mobile site ( another nice

Re: [ubuntu-in] Website theme decided

2011-04-20 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
What about creating original content (e.g. Make GIMP more powerful by doing xyz where everyone of us can write what they know and the article will improve). Remember: This is not meant to be an Ubuntu knowledge site like OMG!Ubuntu. This will provide LoCo centric articles and some stuff to make

[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu website development to be done locally

2011-04-20 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Hi All, This is to confirm that I will be doing the website development locally on my machine (tuxmaniac feels this is the best way, probably less disturbance to the server is better). So you won't be able to see any of this unless its complete. I will be asking for your help and suggestions on

Re: [ubuntu-in] Website theme decided

2011-04-21 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Nice idea. This was proposed some time back but was never implemented. Let's see this time. On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Nitesh Mistry mail...@mistrynitesh.netwrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Maitraya Bhattacharyya maitraya.li...@gmail.com wrote: Anything else? I guess

[ubuntu-in] LoCo members, you are needed

2011-04-23 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Hi All, This is mingo, and I'm working on renovating the Ubuntu-in website. All the content on the old site has been uploaded to http://ubuntu-in.wikia.com I need your help to rewrite/edit the content as most of it is outdated. New articles also have to be written. Please jump in. We need your

Re: [ubuntu-in] LoCo members, you are needed

2011-04-23 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
. Also what are the contents expected to be added ? Regards, laserbled -- *From:* Maitraya Bhattacharyya maitraya.li...@gmail.com *To:* Ubuntu India Local Community ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com *Sent:* Sat, April 23, 2011 3:46:28 PM *Subject:* [ubuntu-in] LoCo

[ubuntu-in] Another important decision to be taken

2011-04-24 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Hi guys, The community has to take another important decision. This is related to fast forwarding our website development. I had a talk with tuxmaniac right now, and now we need you opinion on something. As you might know that we have a wiki for a website which is to be moved to wordpress really

Re: [ubuntu-in] Another important decision to be taken

2011-04-25 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Its http://ui.xinh.org/ Can you please provide the link to the current location of the new website? Pardon me if I missed it in one of the threads. ;-) Nitesh Mistry -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in -- ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] Another important decision to be taken

2011-04-29 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
Yes, I was updating to 3.1.1 and did screw up big time. All is well, all is well. Hopefully will fix this soon, Maitraya. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

[ubuntu-art] LoCo getting new logo.

2010-11-12 Thread Maitraya Bhattacharyya
/4079461/ Thanks and please vote. Maitraya. launchpad.net/~maitraya-bhattacharyya Ubuntu-in site admin. -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art