Is the Ubuntu-ca Website Dead?

[Brian Burger]

The Ubuntu Canada website is not dead, just resting... and as I'm
nominally webmaster for the thing, it's my problem, I'm afraid.

Posting news to it: if you're active with Ubuntu or Linux-related
things in your community, ask on-list or email me for access. A number
of people have basic author-access to post their local events there,
but adding new accounts and being proactive in making sure active
people get accounts has fallen by the wayside.

Getting it properly themed and such is going to be a bit more work.
It's running on a Drupal install hosted by Canonical, which means we
have no hosting worries or costs, but it also means it's locked down
so we can't do theme editing directly. Apparently the only way to get
a theme developed is to get a seperate install of Drupal running
elsewhere, develop the theme there, then bundle it up and email it to
the Canonical sysadmins for a code review, then they'll install it.
Not exactly user-friendly, and the reason the theme is, frankly, both
broken (full of dead links) and fugly.

The no-new-news issue is easy to fix - please speak up if you want a
basic author's account - and the theme issue will take a bit more
work. Anyone willing to host a short-lived Drupal install, for a month
or six weeks, so a few of us can develop a decent-looking, functional
Drupal theme on it?

As for admin accounts - Corey, Tony & I have full-blown admin
accounts, a few others have editor-level accounts, and the regular
accounts we've been creating just have author-privs. If anyone knows
Drupal well and wants to help at the admin level, speak up, please!

Brian
Webmaster, for my sins, ubuntu.ca