Re: GNOME User Groups / Web site

[Andreas Nilsson]

Hi Steven!
Great to see more web hackers around.

On 05/10/2011 01:17 AM, Steven Mautone wrote:
Upon speaking with the User Group team it became evident that my 
skills and resources are best focused on Web development. Brian 
Cameron suggested that I get in contact with the Marketing team in 
order to see if there was any overlap.
Building a site for User Groups sounds like a great idea, and it 
wouldn't really have to be restricted to the user groups in USA only.
Say we have a space called www.gnome.org/usergroups or maybe 
usergroups.gnome.org. This would list all active user groups across the 
world and would allow you to find a local user group near where you live.
www.gnome.org/usergroups/mia could then be the site for the GNOME Miami 
community. That page could feature upcoming events, a contact person etc.

I created a page with ideas here https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/UserGroups
Add more ideas to it, then we can start doing mockups and proper 
planning after that.
Brian also noted that the Friends of GNOME site (gnome.org/friends 
) is not functioning. I'd love to help get 
this site working if my WordPress skills can be of assistance.
The site is not actually broken, only the redirect, 
http://www.gnome.org/friends/ (with the slash at the end should work). 
But yes, we should totally port this to the Wordpress instance so your 
Wordpress skill should come very handy here!
I started some work on a new version of the Friends site back in 
January, but then got occupied by other things.

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2011-January/msg7.html

There is currently a html version of it here: 
http://gitorious.org/gnome-design/gnome-design/trees/master/www/friends-of-gnome-2.0 
and it just needs some extra work to get it integrated into the regular 
gnome.org site.
The wordpress site is hosted here 
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnomeweb-wp and should have everything for 
doing a local install for hacking purposes.

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Re: GNOME User Groups / Web site

[Steven Mautone]

Andreas,

Christer has already helped me configure us.gnome.org to my Web server so
that I can begin building the usergroup site for the USA. I believe your
idea might be a better structure for the site... instead of building a
WordPress/BuddyPress community for the USA, we can build a more global
usergroup site and provide sub-groups/categories for each region.
usergroups.gnome.org makes more sense.

Should I contact Christer to update the subdomain? I could build
usergroups.gnome.org and then provide group administrators with access to
their specific group on the site.

BuddyPress has great user levels for group moderation which I think will fit
the GNOME community very well:
http://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/group-settings-and-roles/
Also, there is a great plugin for creating a group hierarchy:
http://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-group-hierarchy/  so we could
easily set up a structure of USA, USA/MIA, etc.

Steven Mautone
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On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Andreas Nilsson wrote:

>  Hi Steven!
> Great to see more web hackers around.
>
>
> On 05/10/2011 01:17 AM, Steven Mautone wrote:
>
> Upon speaking with the User Group team it became evident that my skills and
> resources are best focused on Web development. Brian Cameron suggested that
> I get in contact with the Marketing team in order to see if there was any
> overlap.
>
> Building a site for User Groups sounds like a great idea, and it wouldn't
> really have to be restricted to the user groups in USA only.
> Say we have a space called www.gnome.org/usergroups or maybe
> usergroups.gnome.org. This would list all active user groups across the
> world and would allow you to find a local user group near where you live.
> www.gnome.org/usergroups/mia could then be the site for the GNOME Miami
> community. That page could feature upcoming events, a contact person etc.
> I created a page with ideas here
> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/UserGroups
> Add more ideas to it, then we can start doing mockups and proper planning
> after that.
>
>  Brian also noted that the Friends of GNOME site (gnome.org/friends) is
> not functioning. I'd love to help get this site working if my WordPress
> skills can be of assistance.
>
> The site is not actually broken, only the redirect,
> http://www.gnome.org/friends/ (with the slash at the end should work). But
> yes, we should totally port this to the Wordpress instance so your Wordpress
> skill should come very handy here!
> I started some work on a new version of the Friends site back in January,
> but then got occupied by other things.
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2011-January/msg7.html
>
> There is currently a html version of it here:
> http://gitorious.org/gnome-design/gnome-design/trees/master/www/friends-of-gnome-2.0and
>  it just needs some extra work to get it integrated into the regular
> gnome.org site.
> The wordpress site is hosted here http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnomeweb-wpand 
> should have everything for doing a local install for hacking purposes.
> - Andreas
>
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> marketing-list@gnome.org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
>
>
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Re: GNOME User Groups / Web site

[Andreas Nilsson]

On 05/16/2011 04:12 PM, Steven Mautone wrote:

Andreas,

Christer has already helped me configure us.gnome.org 
 to my Web server so that I can begin building 
the usergroup site for the USA. I believe your idea might be a better 
structure for the site... instead of building a WordPress/BuddyPress 
community for the USA, we can build a more global usergroup site and 
provide sub-groups/categories for each region. usergroups.gnome.org 
 makes more sense.

Yeah, that sounds like a good name.
I think we want to keep it on the gnome.org infrastructure and ideally 
have it use the same wordpress installation as the rest of the gnome.org 
site. Anyhow, that's details, lets build the site first, we can move it 
later. :)


BuddyPress has great user levels for group moderation which I think 
will fit the GNOME community very well: 
http://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/group-settings-and-roles/

I haven't really used buddypress before, but it sounds like a good plugin.
Vinicius Depizzol, who have done a lot of work on gnome.org and who will 
be working on gnome.org as part of his Google Summer of Code internship 
also had some ideas about a usergroup site.
I told him to get involved with this thread, so we can work out the 
details. I think it would be good to work out the details on what we 
want to see on the site on https://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/UserGroups, 
then do some mockups and then implement the site.

Does that sounds like a good plan?
- Andreas
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