[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu-In Site Re structure

[Baishampayan Ghose]

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On Friday 11 May 2007 10:36 PM, Ravi Shanker cobbled together some
glyphs to say:

Ravi,

> Sounds like a good progess is going to happen restructuring the website.
> 
> Since Flash is proprietary format, so maybe YouTube video inclusion
> won't be good idea. Ogg-theora is best, but it would require own space
> to store.
> I don't know how the webspace is provided and who manages it, admins
> please tell me whats behind the curtain,
> Who provides the space, and how much space is there? Can we have lot
> more to store many screencasts and data.

We do have ample space on the server, but bandwidth is an issue. When
people will download and watch the movies, it will eat up a lot of
bandwidth and will harm other sites hosted on the same server. For that
reason, I would suggest using CcPublisher [1] to serve this purpose.
It's a pretty easy to use tool and automatically uploads content to
archive.org which then can be linked from the website.

> So when restructuring the  website, we should also look at the logo.
> Current logo is so plane, we should have a call for logo works from the
> artists in our group.

The current logo is plane [sic]? How do you want it to be? It's based on
the original Ubuntu logo and serves the purpose well. If you have a
better idea, please show us.

> Also consider changing the current website to Web2 standards. Ajax based
> information service.

What do you mean by that? The website does follows web standards. What
are Web2 standards? And how will a ``Ajax based information service'' be
better?

> We can also work for some information/tutorial page regarding Ubuntu
> implementation in institutions and small businesses. Like, we can have
> some discussion over the current computer engg/sc courses and then the
> list of packages needed and we can write a good page regarding it. Like
> most institutions have to go for Java, C/C++, SQL, network programming,
> Unix and some windows specific things. So we can put the information
> like how to setup these and how much it will benefit the institutions. 

Yes, those howtos would be useful. You can start writing one right now.

> Things like setting multimedia codecs and packages would be good.
> Setting adsl and connecting to internet will cover all the aspects in
> this field. 

Those are already documented, IIRC.

Regards,
BG

[1] http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CcPublisher

PS - Please don't top-post.

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