Savva,
I had a discussion with Grigoris about the server and he gave me some
more detailed specs and stats about the current machine:
The server now hosts our website, forum and mailserver.
We are currently using 45MB out of 250MB disk space.
We have used 220MB out of total 1GB (and the May is not over yet).
So I feel that the current machine serves our needs more than enough.
What we propose:
You can give you an ftp account so you take over the maintenance of the
website, pick the cms/blogging software you like and choose an Ubuntu
friendly theme.
In the end of the day the important is not how the site looks like but
its content. Have a look for example to www.searchlores.org. The design
is not much, just plain html. But it has great and useful content and
that is what keeps the users coming back again and again.
I had some offline discussion with some our members here at work and
what they do not want to see is this effort having the same fate as
cylug or cyubuntu.org. I add here that one of the biggest flame wars on
cylug was the issue where and who will have the maintenance of their
server and it was one of the reasons people were un-registering from the
mailing list.
I want to keep this discussion going and in no case should we turn this
in a flame war. Give me your opinion on the above and let's have other
people join the discussion.
If this leads eventually to a disagreement I think the best way to solve
it is by voting. We can setup a direct democracy voting system (ala
Debian) where we could give voting rights to the members of the mailing
list, active contributors on the forum and people that actively helped
the preparation of the Release Party.
Thoughts...?
Theodotos Andreou wrote:
I will discuss it with Grigoris but it shouldn't be a problem. By the
way if you still own the cyubuntu.org domain can we redirect it on
ubuntucy.org?
Sav vas wrote:
The site is now simple html?
I can provide huge hosting of 100GB space and 500GB bandwidth per
month on my account at dreamhost.com.
We should have an easy-to-update "blog" for news and updates and a
decent design that matches the ubuntu theme.
I could design the site's template or edit an already existing one to
match our needs, unless someone else wants to do that :) I would be
aiming for Wordpress OR Drupal, since both are easy to design and
manage.
The forum should also have a matching design, there is already a style
theme for phpbb3 out there:
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=555725
I suppose gxrisan will manage the website (that includes updating the
website's to the latest software updates in order to be safe). Are you
up to the task? :)
P.S. As an addition to our team activities: Improve the wiki pages! -
I don't think that we need our own wiki database (yet) - it's better
to use existing wiki sites such as https://wiki.ubuntu.com
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ and http://www.ubuntu-gr.org
And as always, please report to me or this mailing list with what you
have done so that I can keep track of your activity :)
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