LoCo web service

[matthew.east.ubuntu at breathe.com]

> Hi, 
> 
> as you know (or should know :-) Canonical offers free hosting for loco
> teams. 
> 
> That hosting currently is done on my personal server. It'll migrate to
> shared virtual hosting at linode.com in the not-too-distant future. 
> 
> We plan to set up one shared host for teams with "normal" requirements,
> not too different from the current setup except that my personal stuff
> will not be on the system ;-) and a separate virtual server for every
> LoCo which has "special" requirements. (That will include people who use
> PHP.) 
> 
> In order to plan that a bit better, I'd like to know if you (a) need a
> PHP-enabled web server, or (b) would like to use any other Apache
> extensions that might cause problems in a shared-hosting environment.

Hi Matthias, 

In terms of the Italian team, as you know we do not currently have a 
ubuntu-it website, but our community is rather split around a mailing list, 
a significant corner in the Ubuntu wiki, and an unofficial forum and news 
site. The Italian community is currently working towards setting up a 
locoteam with a coherent structure, taking some inspiration from the 
Community Council, with some differences, which will represent the whole 
community and finally provide a way of uniting the whole -it community. 

In view of this, we'd ask for your patience and hopefully when the group is 
up and running we can discuss the matter and apply for some hosting with 
you. We will definitely be interested in a forum and wiki, and probably a 
web server as well, although whether PHP will be requested or not is 
difficult to say right now. 

Matt