Hi Raphaël: I agree with your point of view and I agree also that it could be wonderful if there could be a basic template to build new openerp communities if they need a little help to start.
If you don't mind, I'm posting your comments on my post in openerpsite about this topic. Thanks: Ana 2010/8/12 Raphaël Valyi <rva...@gmail.com> > Hello Olivier and the others, > > Thank you for the update. I think all your proposal sound fair. If at some > point one can propose a platform, why not. > On the contrary, I think it's fair to simply redirect on the existing > website of the technology of their choice when the local community already > has a good website, just as you proposed. Let's take > http://www.openerpbrasil.org: we had a spontaneous very nice and fair > contribution from a small Northern Brazil company called DMD2 > http://www.dmd2.com.br/ so they made the great design of > http://www.openerpbrasil.org/ and just put their logo discretely in the > footer (there aren't even OpenERP integrators yet, it's only a nice synergy > with them so they can showcase their design skills) while we took care of > the Radiant CMS stuff at Akretion (and again not doing anything more than > discretely putting the logo in the footer; we will list here all official > and non official Brazilian integrators, we are the only official one so > far). BTW, we also fought to have the non localization related documentation > to be a translation of the official documentation (using Shpinx and > Launchpad then as you explained recently) rather than have noobs documenting > partially and wrongly and in a brittle manner as they want, that would > rather have passed an distorted vision of what OpenERP really is. > > Now imagine you force to switch the nice design and content of > http://www.openerpbrasil.org for a quick and bad generic design that won't > appeal to the average Brazilian user, I think this would be disrespectful to > the local actors who took the initiative and invested work one year before > already. Now if some local community doesn't have some nice neutral entry > point already, yes it might be useful to give them something be default, I > like that. > All right, so basically I'm okay with those proposals, I'll send the > redirection info soon (Heroku apps are a bit special to redirect). > > > Raphaël Valyi > Founder and ERP Consultant > +55 21 3010 9965 > http://www.akretion.com > > <http://www.akretion.com.br/> > > > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Olivier Dony <o...@openerp.com> wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> There are two important topics here: >> 1.- being able to identify the official OpenERP communities >> 2.- helping new local communities in the setup of their community portal >> >> >> 1.- Identifying the local OpenERP communities >> >> As you probably already heard, we plan to launch a new OpenERP.com website >> soon. One of the main ideas is to make the important information easier to >> find, and add what's missing. >> This is a great opportunity to give an official status for the local >> OpenERP communities. In order to do so we propose to provide official logos >> for the communities, but most importantly to display the list of communities >> on the website, with the relevant links and info (similarly to what partners >> will have) >> >> This will not only increase their visibility but also make it very easy to >> distinguish the real ones. >> >> As I discussed with the Spanish community in Bilbao, it would also be very >> easy to setup a DNS alias for each community in the openerp.com domain. >> I propose the following pattern: >> xx.communities.openerp.com >> >> (xx being a unique code for the community, usually the country code) >> I'd rather not have it directly at xx.openerp.com in case we need to use >> this scheme for translations of the website. >> >> If that looks good to you, feel free to post the IP or Hostname you want >> the DNS record to be aliased to for your community. >> >> >> 2.- Local communities portals >> >> It would be great to be able to offer a common platform for all local >> communities. However there is quite a difference between a simple portal >> (CMS/wiki/forum), and an integrated platform. >> >> Setting up a portal only takes a few hours, but it's already a lot more >> work if OpenERP SA has to host/setup all of this centrally, and it's also a >> different job (Web Hosting). >> So this is one area where we need the power and help of community members >> at the moment, as we really need to concentrate on releasing v6, I'm sure >> everyone agrees. >> >> As for a real integrated platform, it sounds great, but my feeling is that >> it would not be as easy to develop as it looks. In any case, I'm afraid we >> have to postpone this option until after the release of v6. >> Of course if someone in the community wants to work on it, then for >> sure we would welcome it and can advertise it as a bootstrap for other >> communities, for example on the "Local Communities" of the new website. >> >> Raphael's email is an interesting move in this direction from the >> Brazilian community. >> >> >> I hope this clarifies things a bit for everyone... >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: >> https://launchpad.net/~openerp-community-leaders<https://launchpad.net/%7Eopenerp-community-leaders> >> Post to : openerp-community-leaders@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : >> https://launchpad.net/~openerp-community-leaders<https://launchpad.net/%7Eopenerp-community-leaders> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~openerp-community-leaders<https://launchpad.net/%7Eopenerp-community-leaders> > Post to : openerp-community-leaders@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~openerp-community-leaders<https://launchpad.net/%7Eopenerp-community-leaders> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Ana Juaristi Olalde Consultor Freelance OpenERP www.anajuaristi.com www.openerpsite.com www.avanzosc.com 677 93 42 59 - 943 85 06 25
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