Site manager and design, styles and themes

[Theodotos Andreou]

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?
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> Sav vas wrote:
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>> 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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