[CoLoCo] new t-shirt / help idea

[Neal McBurnett]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:39:47PM -0600, Alex Comer wrote:
> I do agree that _any_ web site does take a certain degree of maintenance,
> however. But, if we KISS (Keep It Simple...), avoid re-inventing the wheel, and
> essentially create a simple, consumer oriented, user friendly portal to other
> resources (pages on the official ubuntu site, videos on youtube, helpful
> resources, etc) perhaps we can likewise keep maintenance to a minimum.

The playing field moves so fast, I don't think a low-maintenance
approach will be worth much.

> I'll wear a shirt, but I personally don't have the patience or the time to
> physically walk users through installs and provide user tech support. I'm a
> developer, and not much of a people person (though I'm trying to improve that).

Before we launch the project, I think it would help to find out who
really would be willing to put in the time to make it work.  I'm also
in the category "sounds good but I don't have the time to do more than
help with some advice and infrastructure".

> I'm a firm believer that folks should play their "long suit", which in my case
> at least is development. If I can't help in this way, perhaps I'll look at
> contributing to the Ubuntu code base in some way. I was attempting to figure
> out how I could best help the effort, and since drupal web development is one
> of my specialties, I thought it might be a good way to get involved locally.

Thanks!  Whether or not we take this project on onw, my sense is that
a drupal-based site is the way most locos are now going and I guess
it would offer us more flexibility.  [Or django, my favorite - in
python!!]  Perhaps you could look at the drupal configs that other
locos are using and contrast it with what we've got and suggest some
more concrete pros and cons?

    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCreatingWebsite

And now (or soon?) we can give all coloco members automatic logins
by using openids from the launchpad site.  E.g. check out this comment
from https://launchpad.net/~jamesh I spotted at joey's blog:

 http://joey.ubuntu-rocks.org/blog/2007/08/31/exaile-from-trac-to-launchpad/#comments

and this bug for openid support:
 https://launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/1169

Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/