Re: getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

[Sureshkumar Packiyarajah <sureshp8 gmail com>]

Dear Folks,

thank for all mails and specially for your valuable time.

@sysadmin,i came back to my basic start point,what we interest in we are going to do event in srilanka so it would be advantages to supporting us for the official gnome space(ie git).i will never thing our discussion come to end this like.

my point of view,i am newly guard from university but i have involved many open source projects and also having conversions with end-user. really i do not know some of our Gnome teams are using external ISP hosting.if so we do not really needed this facilities and also at the time we do not have such facilities to do so.please drop Git is enough.

@Fred, I am always welcome your marketing advices,as you told me to before arrange big events please find some local software companies for sponsorship.at the movement i am working on it and also i hope we all are working for volunteers because we love Gnome and Open Source.we used to go for office for managing our personal and family daily expenses apart for the  Gnome and other Open source projects we used to work on night time and weekends days(my point of view).there is nothing own business with Gnome or other open source projects but i will agreed we can get a lot of experience from rest of world developers. my interest is in future we have to hand over our leadership to next generation for the reason may be we will move to another countries for advance studies or Job so and so.therefore during the stay of our university i need to involved our juniors students as much i can and you all know  be a good help to the newcomers; users or developers... they are

all potential contributors.that only reason i though like this.

anyhow thanks again for your time and i hope this conversions was helpful for subscribers to identify "how to get suitable things from Gnome".

Thanks in Advance,

Suresh

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org> wrote:

On 04/19/2011 10:37 PM, Christian Rose wrote:

2011/4/19 Danishka Navin<danishka gmail com>:
[...]

>  what i try to say is if you really have an issue with supporting us by
>  creating the subdomain and giving some space
>  the only solution is to create a basic blog at some where else.

There seems to be some fundamental misunderstanding going on here.

Most existing local community sites, to the best of my knowledge, use
some other ISP, and use a LL.gnome.org subdomain (language code) or
gnome.CC (country code) domain to point to that ISP. I.e. nothing is
hosted on GNOME servers, the GNOME domain just points to it, wherever
it is hosted.

I'll second what Christian said and would strongly recommend to find your own hosting in Sri Lanka. That's what I do whenever possible and it has several benefits:
- you can do decide what CMS you use and have all the flexibility to change whenever you want
- you get to involve some local companies to sponsor you, be it a hosting company from Sri Lanka (which in turn can provide speakers at specific occasion) or any other type of business/"rich" individual. Shared hosting in the US cost between $30 and $50 a year and would definitely suit you. $50 is nothing for a business.
- by maintaining your own site, you get to learn some extra skills which might turn out to be useful later.

Well I hope this will be helpful in your community building.

Fred
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