[Ubuntu-SG] TUSG website

[C David Rigby]

On Monday 17,May,2010 03:23 PM, Prakash Advani wrote:
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> On Monday 17 May 2010 12:49 PM, C David Rigby wrote:
>> On Monday 17,May,2010 03:16 PM, Prakash Advani wrote:
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>>> On Monday 17 May 2010 12:26 PM, C David Rigby wrote:
>>>> On Monday 17,May,2010 02:47 PM, Ho Yi Hao Pipat wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I got a few question though. Must the site be on drupal? I can 
>>>>> help maintaining if the site was on wordpress or something.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello Yi Hao,
>>>>
>>>> I freely admit to being a Drupal partisan. Yes it is harder to 
>>>> learn, but it provides much more functionality and is far more 
>>>> customizable. It is designed to be a CMS for building online 
>>>> community sites.
>>>>
>>>> I am not wedded to it, though. If we, as a group, want something 
>>>> else, fine. Wordpress seems to me to be primarily a 
>>>> blogging-oriented CMS, but I admit that I do not know it nor the 
>>>> full extent of its capabilities. AFAIK, we could get a free 
>>>> WordPress blog on the wordpress.com site. Does that meet our needs?
>>> I have used Wordpress, its easier than most other content management 
>>> systems. Use it if you are happy with blogs/static pages and photo 
>>> album.. but don't need any more features (wiki, etc)
>>>
>>> However drupal and other content management systems will offer more 
>>> features like Wiki Modules.
>>>
>>> Whats important is also who is managing the site and what tools they 
>>> are comfortable with.
>>>
>>> I am quite comfortable with Wordpress and run my own Blog: 
>>> http://cityblogger.com . I am happy to help.
>>>
>>> My suggestion is as follows.
>>>
>>> - We can leverage some cloud instances offered by Amazon to host the 
>>> website.
>>>
>>> - I have shared hosting on Dreamhost and I also also provide some 
>>> hosting space.
>>
>> Hello Prakash,
>>
>> Thanks for the input and the offer of support. Can you point me to 
>> links on the Amazon service?
> Amazon EC2 offer cloud services.
>
> Kingsley Wood (copied) from Amazon is offered free credits to people 
> attending my talk.
>
> Can we given them credit in terms of putting their logo of they 
> provide this?
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> My blog space is still available.
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> BTW Wordpress is multi user..

I cannot answer for the whole group concerning adding a logo for Amazon 
to the site. Typically, though, I have included sponsors logos and links 
on other community sites that I have set up in the past. This is 
standard practice, so I would advocate for it here.

Thanks for the input on Wordpress. I will try to devote some time to 
researching its features in the near future.

Cheers
David
>>
>> As far has hosting on your account, that is great. We would not need 
>> a great deal of storage.
>>
>> Regards,
>> David
>>
>>>>
>>>> What sorts of maintenance tasks would you be comfortable doing? In 
>>>> other words, to you want to write articles, do administrative work, 
>>>> some combination there of?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Prakash Advani |http://cityblogger.com
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> -- 
> Prakash Advani |http://cityblogger.com
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