Re: [GNOME-my][Fwd: Re: GNOME malaysia web hosted]

[Hasbullah Bin Pit <sebol ikhlas com>]

Chee Bin HOH wrote:
> Hi colin,
>
> I just get in touch with Imran from http://community.asiaosc.org, he is
> kindly agree to allow us to host up a site `GNOME Malaysia` under
> http://community.asiaosc.org/~gnome-my.
>
> He have brought up a few issue that need to be concern and address
> before starting the work... i hope to bring up some discussion on the
> list about it..
>
> Would you like to take on the challenge? of course i will willingness to
> do my best to help you out for everything (time, resource, money)... i
> simply love GNOME very much.... ;)
>
> I won't rush for it.. but hope to plan careful about it and have
> discussion about what it will look like under this mailing list for the
> planned website.

I agree for not rushing,

It's posible to make our website URL nicer
such as, gnome-my.gnome.org  (hmmm duplicated "gnome"
	malaysia.gnome.org
         gnome-my.asiaosc.org (can we kautim with mimos opensource? )
         gnome.org.my
 can aisaosc host ourwebsite using external domain?


> I will also take sometimes (in a week) to go through the copyright issue
> of GNOME logo and name. and clarity and resolve any issue with GNOME
> executive director, Tim Ney (director gnome org)
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2003-November/msg00098.html
>
> regards,
> HOH
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject:
> Re: GNOME malaysia web hosted
> From:
> Imran William Smith <iwsmith mimos my>
> Date:
> Mon, 01 Dec 2003 10:16:37 +0800
> To:
> cbhoh mimos my
>
>
> OK then, no problems.
> Just nominate the person who will have permission to upload and hold
> the password.  Get them to send in (fax or by email) some photo-ID,
> using the normal procedure.

we should redo this if the webiste maintainer changing?

> Pazli,
> Can you change the wording on terms and conditions / procedure to
> say 'some kind of photo ID (for example, Malaysian IC)' rather than
> just 'IC' - to make it clear what we really want, especially for 
> foreigners?
> Because colin charles said he thinks it will be a problem for many people,
> who do not have IC or passport (e.g. many people in India).

switch to M$ Passport
hehehe



> Imran
>
>
>
> Chee Bin HOH wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 09:39, Imran William Smith wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > I think it should be fine.... but a few questions regarding our 
> > > existing terms
> > > andconditions:
> > >
> > > 1) it's not-for-profit, correct?
> > >   
> >
> >
> > Yup, it is for non-profit, even we said market GNOME, but in fact, we
> > just try to bring GNOME desktop awareness to general public... we 
> > still Affiliate with GNOME project.
> >
> >  
> >
> > > 2) will there be just 1 person authorized to login and upload?  
> > > otherwise,
> > > becomes some risk that we can't be sure who is doing what ... we need
> > > to protect MIMOS in case of any bad content on community server, so 
> > > basically
> > > we need somebody to blame :)   
> >
> >
> > Mmm, I am far from being a good web designer.. so I look up a person to
> > help me to setup such a planning site, colin (byte aeon com my). I will
> > have a discussion with colin about this issue.
> >
> > If you insist on one person to login and upload the site, then I will be
> > happy to let Colin in charge of it if he is willingness to commit to it.
> >
> >  
> >
> > > 3) currently it's only sftp.  for a big site, rsync is quite useful - 
> > > unless somebody
> > > can write a script that does a recursive sftp?  or I know that scp 
> > > has a --recursive
> > > option, but currently we did not enable sftp either...  What do you 
> > > think?
> > >   
> >
> >
> > I will consult colin about this issue, i am not familiar with it, but I
> > see  that it won't be a big site for near future, since we are in our
> > very beginning stage, and we are willingness to transfer file by file if
> > we can not find an automatic way to do so.
> >
> >  
> >
> > > 4) when do you want to launch this? because Pazli did not yet finish
> > > confirming with legal department that the terms and conditions are 
> > > OK, without
> > > this we cannot formally launch community server (that's why it's in 
> > > 'beta testing'
> > > phase).
> > >   
> >
> >
> > We won't officially launch the site, and I believe we won't do that in
> > this 2 months, since we all volunteer doing it. what we would like to
> > know is that possible to have such site host up and look for right
> > people to do it.
> >
> >  
> >
> > > But assuming all these issues can be solved ... this is exactly the 
> > > kind of thing
> > > we wanted at the site :) to encourage and help community activist 
> > > people to
> > > create web content and to create a better linked community of people in
> > > Malaysia working on open source in their free time.
> > >   
> >
> >
> > That is what we actually like to do so.
> >
> >  
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Imran
> > >
> > >
> > > Chee Bin HOH wrote:
> > >
> > >   
> > >
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > we (gnome-my-list gnome org) are planning to host up a website `GNOME
> > > > malaysia`, which we can use to post news, organize events.. and have a
> > > > lot of funs about GNOME that more relevant to what happened in 
> > > > Malaysia.
> > > >
> > > > we would like to host the site under community.asiaosc.org, like
> > > > http://community.asiaosc.org/~gnome-my.
> > > >
> > > > As i know that now the web account is open to individual public, so is
> > > > that possible for us to apply such account and host up `GNOME malaysia`
> > > > stuffs there?
> > > >
> > > > I know it might need a person who is fully responsible for the site
> > > > content, I will take on the responsibility of it.   
> > > >
> > > > regards,
> > > > HOH