[ubuntu-art] Improving What We Do! (Martin Owens)

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_ at freenet.de> wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 20:25 -0400, John Baer wrote:
>
> > I like what I see with ccHost and there may be expertise ( Bryce? ) to
> > help mold it into a useful tool.
> >
> > The openclipart site looked good ( http://www.openclipart.org/ ).
>
> Personally, I would avoid anything based on PHP. It's amazing what
> people build with that poorly designed language, but it still doesn't
> make it look like a god choice.
>
>
> > 1. Will Canonical host it? If not, then who?
>
> I would not count on Canonical. Especially not on any buy-in prior to us
> having something in our hands. I think there's a "words are cheap, see
> who actually delivers" at work, combined with everyone being busy enough
> already.
>
>
If it adds value to the Ubuntu community I suspect Canonical will want to
host it. As a matter of fact, we often prefer to host such applications. (it
is a requirement if you are in the *.ubuntu.com name space)

All good development projects start with a plan. Get the plan together, look
into getting the resources, and then talk to me on IRC or e-mail (I'm
newz2000 in #ubuntu-website) and I will connect you with the people inside
Canonical needed to move forward.

The thing to remember is that Canonical has intense concerns about security
and therefore have some strict guidelines about contributed code. Throwing
together a hodge-podge of Drupal modules to create a solution will make
deploying it a challenge. Choosing Python / Django will be a big help since
that is one of Canonical's preferred technologies. (for reference, the UDS
website is developed this way)

Speaking of the UDS website, talk to the gang responsible for that for
inspiration. They're doing an awesome job pulling it together and working
colabortively.



> > 2. What does Canonical plan to do with the current Wiki and when.
>
> There's a theme update in the pipeline, but AFAIK that's all they plan
> to change regarding the wiki.
>
>
The wiki is not going away or changing drastically in the near future. It
still serves tons of projects quite well.

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