Website Renewal

[Joel Addison]

On 11/03/2011 1:31 PM, MoLE wrote:
> On 9 March 2011 17:59, Jared Norris<jrnorris at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Feel free to suggest anything you like for the site but please make
>> sure it's going to contribute to the website, not just be there so we
>> can say we have it.
> Jared and ??jra2011 (apologies if I got the nick wrong) did some work
> looking at the calendaring issues with the u.org.au site vs the
> loco.u.com site and providing a readable on-line calendar for the
> major calendaring applications .  This happened after the meeting in
> the #ubuntu-au channel the other night.
>
> I tend to use thunderbird + lightning and google calendar.
>
> Interestingly the loco.u.com calendar I was able to import as a
> network calendar, but the time zone was messed up (ie not recognised
> as being in UTC, lightning assumed the times were local time).
>
> As a workaround I imported into google calendar and subscribed to the
> calendar feed from there.  Google Calendar imported the times
> correctly.
>
> I suspect this is a bug in lightning but worth being aware of.
>
> Unfortunately the calendar on the u.org.au site wouldn't import at all.
>
> Why am I putting this out there?  Well, for me to be able to
> participate, it really helps to be able to have a dynamic calendar I
> can rely on being updated by the team, so I can effectively coordinate
> my non-ubuntu activities alongside.  Plus it makes us look like we
> know what we're doing.
>
> I'm not a drupal person (I have a limited amount of joomla
> experience), but I'd be happy to do any calendar testing that is
> needed.  I would anticipate testing with evolution, lightning and
> google calendar, or any other calendaring software that team members
> nominate.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
>
> MoLE
>

Hi all,

I was the other person discussing fixing up the website (IRC nick - 
jaddi27) with Jared after the meeting on Tuesday.

 From what I can see, which is not too much without having admin 
permissions, it looks like the ubuntu.org.au website is using Drupal 
5.x. This version was recently retired with the release of Drupal 7 
earlier this year, so as a start I would suggest getting the site 
upgraded to Drupal 6.x. After the upgrade of the core Drupal install, 
the other modules adding functionality to the site can be upgraded.

The current calendar on the site looks to be using the Event module, 
which has not had a new release since 2007. The module used by most 
people now for calendars is a combination of the Date + Calendar 
modules. This setup is quite different to Event from what I can tell (I 
haven't used Event module at all), so it might take a bit more 
configuration to change to. However it is worth changing to the Date + 
Calendar modules, as it give a full upgrade path in the future. Another 
positive is that the Calendar module support subscribing to ical format 
calendars, so the loco.u.com calendar should be able to be used on the 
u.org.au website (no doubling up on adding entries).

The Ubuntu Drupal modules are all made for Drupal 6.x at the moment. 
This would be one of the main reasons for going with Drupal 6.x and not 
Drupal 7. You can see an example site with the Ubuntu Drupal modules and 
theme at http://staging.profarius.com/. There are also other colours 
available in that theme, not just brown.

I am happy to assist where I can, in between Uni assignments and study.

Regards,
Joel