Re: GNOME User Groups / Web site

[Steven Mautone <steven inverted com>]

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 <nisses mail home se> 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/msg00007.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.
- Andreas

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