<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> 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 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.searchlores.org">www.searchlores.org</a>. 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: <blockquote cite="mid:48353163.9020101@ubuntucy.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=555725">http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=555725</a> 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 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com">https://wiki.ubuntu.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/</a> and <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ubuntu-gr.org">http://www.ubuntu-gr.org</a> 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 :) </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>