Shared website development and/or hosting

[Titanus Eramius]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:57:38 +0200
Pasi Lallinaho <pasi at shimmerproject.org> wrote:

> On 16/11/12 10:34, Jesper Jarlskov wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Pasi Lallinaho 
> > <pasi at shimmerproject.org <mailto:pasi at shimmerproject.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 11/15/2012 10:36 PM, Titanus Eramius wrote:
> >     > On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:32:57 +0200
> >     > Jussi Kekkonen <tmt at ubuntu.com <mailto:tmt at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >> The biggest "why" for me is the fact that maintaining the
> >     >> platform (themes etc) and content tends to take more work
> >     >> than there's
> >     doers.
> >     >> If basic contents would be done with bigger team,
> >     >> translations
> >     would
> >     >> be easy to do and more easily organised than creating
> >     >> contents from scratch. All the rest is easily thrown to wiki
> >     >> I'd say.
> >     >>
> >     > In this I agree 100% and I think it should be the main reason
> >     > for working towards a common site. In DK we have around ~350
> >     > active members, but only 2 admins and 2 mods, which (in my
> >     > opinion)
> >     means some
> >     > things just don't get done.
> >     >
> >     > However, I too disagrees in having one forum only, since a
> >     > fair
> >     part of
> >     > the danish users don't do english (at all). One solution
> >     > might be to have 5 "top level forums", so one first chooses
> >     > language (DK,
> >     SE, NO,
> >     > FI and EN*), and then can browse the localized forum.
> >
> >     I'd like to keep the forums discussion separate from this
> > website discussion. I don't personally have any motivation to
> > pursue a shared forum, even with areas for all different languages.
> >
> >
> > I agree, lets not focus on a common forum.
> >
> >     > My rationale for thinking this way is the great value of past
> >     threads
> >     > in a forum, and collecting the knowledge of Scandinavia
> >     > within one site would be reason enough for me to work towards
> >     > one site.
> >     Having all
> >     > this in one place, would also mean the search-function would
> >     > show results from all of the forums.
> >     >
> >     > A large site like this, would also be able to have a wiki and
> >     > other nice things which we currently don't have in DK because
> >     > we lack manpower.
> >
> >     I'm not sure wiki should in the scope of this discussion
> > either, but that's of course possible later. But why would we
> > want/need a shared wiki?
> >
> >
> > I am a bit confused here, then. It seems I have missed the kind of 
> > information you would present on the site.
> 
> General information about Ubuntu, how to obtain it, ... I think this
> is pretty much what LoCos have on their sites already.

I'm getting more confused by the message.

Here in DK the forum takes ~65% of all the traffic to our
site, which means that the forum is what most of our users are
interested in, and in second places comes the "Guides & Articles"
Wordpress-section with ~15% of the hits, hence the recommendation to
have a wiki.

So the forum is really our main asset, and building yet another site
with static information seems kind of lame. Why not use
ubuntu-nordic.org for that?

It might just be me, but I don't see the point in this. There is plenty
of static information about Ubuntu online, and I think the reason that
people use the forums, is because they can't use that static
information. It might be to hard, ambiguous or in the wrong language.
The site we discus here would only solve the last problem.

Even though we don't end up working toward a common site, it would
still be an advantage to share the code for the websites, but that
implies we can agree to work on a common platform, or at least parts of
a common platform.

Med venlig hilsen Nicky