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

C David Rigby c.david.rigby at gmail.com
Wed May 19 08:25:32 UTC 2010


On Wednesday 19,May,2010 02:58 PM, ankit Tulsyan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am new here so not sure how this mailing exactly works. However I 
> dont mind helping out with the ubuntu.sg <http://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
>

Hello Ankit,

Noted & thanks!

Regards
David
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:00 PM, <ubuntu-sg-request at lists.ubuntu.com 
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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 <mailto:yihao.ho at gmail.com>>
>     Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-SG] TUSG website
>     To: "Wood, Kingsley" <kwood at amazon.com <mailto:kwood at amazon.com>>
>     Cc: "ubuntu-sg at lists.ubuntu.com
>     <mailto: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 <mailto:yihao.ho at gmail.com>
>     yihao at statick.sg <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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 <mailto:kwood at amazon.com> | (o) +65.6232.2063 |
>     (m) +65.9338.8572
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > *From:* C David Rigby [mailto:c.david.rigby at gmail.com
>     <mailto:c.david.rigby at gmail.com>]
>     > *Sent:* Monday, May 17, 2010 3:29 PM
>     > *Cc:* ubuntu-sg at lists.ubuntu.com
>     <mailto: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
>     <http://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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