[Ubuntu-SG] Ubuntu-SG Digest, Vol 39, Issue 10

Wed May 19 06:58:10 UTC 2010

Hi All,

I am new here so not sure how this mailing exactly works. However I dont
mind helping out with the ubuntu.sg website.

I can do a bit of HTML, Javascript programming.

Please let me know how I could contribute to the team.

Best Regards,

Ankit

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:00 PM, <ubuntu-sg-request at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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>   1. Re:  TUSG website (Ho Yi Hao Pipat)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 11:18:33 +0800
> From: Ho Yi Hao Pipat <yihao.ho at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-SG] TUSG website
> To: "Wood, Kingsley" <kwood at amazon.com>
> Cc: "ubuntu-sg at lists.ubuntu.com" <ubuntu-sg at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> So, what will the plan for the website be? Do we recreate it or?
>
> With regards,
> Yi Hao
>
> +65 98574690
> yihao.ho at gmail.com
> yihao at statick.sg
>
> Store Admin,
> Statick.sg,
> Singapore's Premier Entertainment site.
>
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Wood, Kingsley <kwood at amazon.com> wrote:
>
> >  Hi all,
> >
> >
> >
> > Let me know what you need, but I?ll bring the credit codes along to the
> > event, and if I can get emails for all the attendees, I can send them
> out,
> > or they can simply email me to get their credit code for AWS.
> >
> >
> >
> > Here is a good link to our logo :
> >
> > *http://www.asperasoft.com/images/AWS_LOGO_CMYK.png*
> >
> >
> >
> > and if you can link it to our main page :
> >
> > http://aws.amazon.com/
> >
> >
> >
> > see you then,
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *Kingsley Wood***
> >
> > *Business Development and Sales*
> >
> > Amazon Asia-Pacific Resources Pvt. Ltd.
> >
> > kwood at amazon.com | (o) +65.6232.2063 | (m) +65.9338.8572
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *From:* C David Rigby [mailto:c.david.rigby at gmail.com]
> > *Sent:* Monday, May 17, 2010 3:29 PM
> > *Cc:* ubuntu-sg at lists.ubuntu.com; Wood, Kingsley
> >
> > *Subject:* Re: [Ubuntu-SG] TUSG website
> >
> >
> >
> > On Monday 17,May,2010 03:23 PM, Prakash Advani wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Monday 17 May 2010 12:49 PM, C David Rigby wrote:
> >
> > On Monday 17,May,2010 03:16 PM, Prakash Advani wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > My blog space is still available.
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  --
> >
> > Prakash Advani | http://cityblogger.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
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