Ubuntu Canada Meeting: Saturday, February 11th

[Brian Burger]

On 2/6/07, Dave Sullivan <dave at dave-sullivan.com> wrote:
>
> * Ubuntu Canada Website (ubuntu.ca / ubuntu-ca.org)
>     - What to do with it, who wants to help?
>

I'm not going to be able to make the meeting - I'm at work w/ no IRC access
all day this Saturday - but as current de-facto webmaster of ubuntu.ca, I
thought I'd throw a few ideas & suggestions out...

- We've got hosting from Canonical now; Corey needs to get himself organized
to set this up, then we can redirect the DNS to the Canonical servers and
away from the elderly greybox in his basement. We'll probably just dump the
current static HTML pages onto the Canonical servers currently, as a
placeholder.
- I'm happy to continue as webmaster/volunteer web designer for ubuntu.ca;
I'm just as happy to share the job (see next item) or turn it over entirely
if someone is feeling very inspired.
- I've always wanted a CMS on ubuntu.ca, so we can have RSS feeds, other
people supplying news items (editors with varying levels of access) and
other good things.
- a photo gallery would be Nice To Have.
- Planet Ubuntu Canada has been mentioned before as an idea, and I think
it's a good one. Tony was wanting to work on this; hopefully he'll still be
able to.
- that all said, we've always been opposed to duplicating existing
resources. There's enough fragmentation in the FLOSS world already, Ubuntu
Canada doesn't need to add yet more under-resourced ideas to the mix!

If local sub-teams of Ubuntu Canada want webspace, something can probably be
arranged - either as simple subdirectories (ubuntu.ca/toronto/) or perhaps
(depending on details of Canonical's hosting) as subdomains -
toronto.ubuntu.ca, or whatever. insertcitynamehere.ubuntu.ca?

Oh, and I just added this meeting announcement to ubuntu-ca.org itself.

Brian
ubuntu-ca.org
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