[ubuntu-in] All hands on the deck!

Anmol Sarma unmole.in at gmail.com
Tue Oct 19 05:07:12 BST 2010


The last time I used wordpress, a wiki and froums were a pain to
setup. Hopefully that has chnged now. Count me in.

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Maitraya Bhattacharyya
<maitraya.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> We are using wordpress at the moment. I have alreasy designed a new theme
> and a logo.. I spoke to a web admin (Aanjhan) and we will be testing it
> soon...
> For those who wish to participate....jump in. I'll tell you what to do.
> Maitraya.
>
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Anmol Sarma <unmole.in at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I personally feel Drupal would be the way to go, especially with the
>> efforts like here https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-drupal which aim to
>> make Drupal even more suitable for LoCo teams. We could segregate
>> content into editable wiki section and have more static introductory
>> pages. I second Nitish's blog aggregator proposal (which once again
>> can be easily done using Ubuntu Drupal Planet
>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-drupal-planet). Also, IMHO having a
>> separate login system is redundant and we should seek to integrate
>> with Launchpad or Canonical Single Sign On.
>>
>> I'm happy to see this is finally taking off. Looking forward to
>> contributing.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Nitesh Mistry
>> <mailbox at mistrynitesh.net> wrote:
>> > On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 03:48:28PM +0530, Manish Sinha wrote:
>> >> I just want to know if we are going to use some CMS or Wordpress or can
>> >> we
>> >> go with a custom lightweight Django application?
>> >
>> > I think we already had discussion on this and some felt that we should
>> > let the content management be left to the current wiki format, so that
>> > all can make contribution easily, and also save us the time and energy
>> > of setting up a new CMS.
>> >
>> > Having said that, I personally feel that we should have a blog on one
>> > part of the site, or a blog aggregator of some sort where all the blogs
>> > of Indian Ubuntu users can be synced together.
>> >
>> >> I will show a few samples when I get time tomorrow.
>> >> BTW I think we can use the marketing material available at
>> >> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~t-w-/+junk/spreadubuntu_art/files which is
>> >> made
>> >> by Thorsten Wilms.
>> >>
>> >> Additionally, OMG! Ubuntu! people have released their branding assets
>> >> at
>> >>
>> >> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/ohso_brand_assets.zip
>> >> which we can use for artwork instead of developing ours from scratch.
>> >> We
>> >> will add a link  to their website in the Credits/Thanks section.
>> >
>> > You are most welcome to put them at our wiki at ubuntu-in.wikia.com
>> >
>> > Thanks for taking interest! :)
>> >
>> > --
>> > Regards,
>> > Nitesh Mistry
>> > www.mistrynitesh.com
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