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Re: [SFD-discuss] [SFD-announce] Sponsorship confirmed and testing ahead

by shirish शिरीष

in-line :- On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 00:14, Thilo Pfennig <tp(a)pfennigsolutions.de> wrote: > Am 17.06.2010 17:50, schrieb shirish शिरीष: > > The wiki is already running, but I am still testing some stuff out. Hope > we will be able to open it in some days. As said before looking forward to it. A bit curious though would you be using something like mediawiki or something else http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_software >> a. An openid single-on sign on to wiki :- This would make it easier >> for both me as well as people at the other end of the stream (Sponsors > >> b. Tagging :- This should also make it easy for people to find content. > > What do you mean with that? You can add keywords to every page. And the > wiki supports categories as well. > Lemme take examples for you. http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2009 http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/press http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/archives http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/archives/2008 http://sfd.openfreeway.org/index.php?cPath=5 (shouldn't the store be part of the site? curious) http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/archives/2008/asia (this page does not exist ? ) anyways, all the above pages there are no keywords. If there are other wiki pages which have keywords/tags somewhere and I have not been able to see them please link them so I know where and what I should be looking for? Preferably a tag-cloud but if not that atleast a way for us to figure out thing. Just as an e.g. http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/tag/rpg/ makes it easy for me as well as for others to figure out stuff (if they are looking for ) >> c. Filtering through cities :- Right now its pretty hard to get a good >> filter and contact details of SFD contributors based in other >> cities/countries. > > I like to structure it a bit better. Sure that's what we are looking for as well. > Regards, > Thilo > > > > -- > Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme > Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) > http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ > XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17

June 19, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] [SFD-announce] Sponsorship confirmed and testing ahead

by Thilo Pfennig

Am 17.06.2010 17:50, schrieb shirish शिरीष: The wiki is already running, but I am still testing some stuff out. Hope we will be able to open it in some days. > a. An openid single-on sign on to wiki :- This would make it easier > for both me as well as people at the other end of the stream (Sponsors > b. Tagging :- This should also make it easy for people to find content. What do you mean with that? You can add keywords to every page. And the wiki supports categories as well. > > c. Filtering through cities :- Right now its pretty hard to get a good > filter and contact details of SFD contributors based in other > cities/countries. I like to structure it a bit better. Regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig

June 17, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] [SFD-announce] Sponsorship confirmed and testing ahead

by shirish शिरीष

in-line :- On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 07:31, Frederic Muller <fred(a)beijinglug.org> wrote: > Dear SFD supporters, Dear Frederic, > We've been graciously granted a VPS by Linode (www.linode.com) to host > our platform, which has been scattered here and there so far. Until now > Canonical was providing the support for our web platform, but technical > details have been preventing us from upgrading a 3 years old wiki in > dear need of a lifting! > > So I extend my thanks to both Canonical who have been supporting us > since the early days and has just renewed their commitment to SFD in > 2010, and to Linode with whom we have slow migrated stuff over time. > Both companies have been extremely responsive to our needs and it's a > real pleasure dealing with them. > > This also means we'll still be getting loads of free Ubuntu CDs shipped > to each teams again this year, and that we'll be migrating our sites and > various services over the coming days. We might definitely experience > some outage (or maybe not). One thing which has been giving us headaches > so far was our mailing lists and we're planning to phase them out in the > short term, except from announcements. > > We're also looking for volunteers to help us add an Free Software > alternative to Google Maps and provide access to OpenStreetMaps. If > anyone has experience implementing an API similar to what we have so far > (http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/2009/map.shtml ), please do contact us. > > That will be all for now and we hope you're starting to get ready for > this year SFD. > > Thank you all. > > Warm regards, > > Frederic Muller > SFI President > Software Freedom Day 2010 happening on Saturday September 18th, 2010 > The announcements are terrific. I, alongwith all the other SFD supporters would be looking forward to what new you and your team of developers/volunteers do bring to the table. One of the things I would be looking for a. An openid single-on sign on to wiki :- This would make it easier for both me as well as people at the other end of the stream (Sponsors and other contributors) to know the history of persons and teams. As I am and have been working with different teams it makes sense to be able to compile all my activity at one username. b. Tagging :- This should also make it easy for people to find content. c. Filtering through cities :- Right now its pretty hard to get a good filter and contact details of SFD contributors based in other cities/countries. As I usually am on the move every few months I would like to meet and talk with other SFD contributors as well. Right now, that's a hard task in the existing way. I'm sorry if I've not been able to articulate my need (features) but do look forward to the new wiki. Is there a time-line when the new wiki and other things are in place? September is just 3 months away and packing and sending schwag does take quite a bit of time (previous years experiences ). Also posted the same about the site revamp announcement on the blog. http://wp.me/pfuZu-eQ I do hope you also think of having the mailing list and its archives also put up on the main page of the new site. > _______________________________________________ > SFD-announce mailing list > SFD-announce(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-announce -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17

June 17, 2010

Sponsorship confirmed and testing ahead

by Frederic Muller

Dear SFD supporters, We've been graciously granted a VPS by Linode (www.linode.com) to host our platform, which has been scattered here and there so far. Until now Canonical was providing the support for our web platform, but technical details have been preventing us from upgrading a 3 years old wiki in dear need of a lifting! So I extend my thanks to both Canonical who have been supporting us since the early days and has just renewed their commitment to SFD in 2010, and to Linode with whom we have slow migrated stuff over time. Both companies have been extremely responsive to our needs and it's a real pleasure dealing with them. This also means we'll still be getting loads of free Ubuntu CDs shipped to each teams again this year, and that we'll be migrating our sites and various services over the coming days. We might definitely experience some outage (or maybe not). One thing which has been giving us headaches so far was our mailing lists and we're planning to phase them out in the short term, except from announcements. We're also looking for volunteers to help us add an Free Software alternative to Google Maps and provide access to OpenStreetMaps. If anyone has experience implementing an API similar to what we have so far (http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/2009/map.shtml ), please do contact us. That will be all for now and we hope you're starting to get ready for this year SFD. Thank you all. Warm regards, Frederic Muller SFI President Software Freedom Day 2010 happening on Saturday September 18th, 2010

June 6, 2010