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Re: [MCS] Mozilla Canada website

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Booker, Paul

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Mar 8, 2012, 11:13:18 AM3/8/12
to Majken Connor, community-...@lists.mozilla.org, communit...@lists.mozilla.org, Regnard Raquedan
That's cool Lucy. I just wanted to offer my services just in case you need
them now or in the future.

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Majken Connor <maj...@gmail.com> wrote:

> sorry Paul, I meant local volunteers :)
>
> If we don't have enough content to add regularly then drupal might be more
> work than it makes sense to put in right now. We'll have to discuss what we
> have time for and what our needs are at the moment. I know I don't
> currently have time to keep the content organized so at the moment
> wordpress makes a lot of sense, with the idea to migrate when we have the
> resources.
>
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Booker, Paul <i...@paulbooker.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Sound good :)
>>
>> Sorry I thought I had already volunteered to help with IT and with
>> setting
>> up a Drupal site.
>>
>> I'll be working on the Drupal theme as soon as we have the latest HTML /
>> CSS for MCS.
>>
>>
>> This message may get blocked as I can't adjust the "Reply from" inside
>> Gmail and also not
>> sure which alias I used to register, I thought it was
>> mozilla+comm...@paulbooker.co.uk ..
>>
>>
>> Best, Paul
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Majken Connor <maj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I think we might want to start with wordpress since we don't currently
>> have
>> > any IT volunteers and I don't have time to coordinate a tiki install
>> like
>> > I'd like to. Though I'm not sure wordpress will do what we want long
>> term,
>> > but it's a start.
>> >
>> > The theme on mozant is based off the current about to be obsolete MCS
>> > theme, we should definitely use MCS themes, but hopefully tweak them a
>> > little to show our own character.
>> >
>> > I was thinking the current meeting should be about the communication
>> > channels since we already have them in place. We could devote the April
>> > meeting to starting the website, could be a hack meeting! Does that
>> sound
>> > good?
>> >
>> > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Regnard Raquedan <reg...@raquedan.com
>> > >wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi Everyone!
>> > >
>> > > Just wanted to ask your feedback regarding the Canadian community
>> > website.
>> > > It seems like there is more support for a WordPress/Drupal-based
>> > community
>> > > website, perhaps because of the popularity of those platforms.
>> > >
>> > > That said, what do you think of adopting the platform/theme used by
>> > Mozilla
>> > > Antarctica? http://mozilla-antarctica.org/
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Majken Connor <maj...@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Hi all!
>> > > >
>> > > > As part of our efforts to organize the Toronto community, Regnard
>> and
>> > > > I decided we should start a Canada-wide site rather than just a
>> > > > Toronto one. That way as new communities organize there are already
>> > > > more resources available to them.
>> > > >
>> > > > *Domain
>> > > >
>> > > > mozillacanada.org has been registered for us
>> > > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719836
>> > > >
>> > > > *Hosting
>> > > >
>> > > > Regnard has filed a bug to get hosting from community IT
>> > > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720374
>> > > >
>> > > > *Software
>> > > >
>> > > > We have currently decided to go with TikiWiki because it does
>> > > > everything, and you can divide the site up into categories on the
>> same
>> > > > install. They're also a really great open source community and I
>> still
>> > > > have contacts with them to help out.
>> > > >
>> > > > That said, we settled on that because that's what we know. If other
>> > > > people are volunteering to help run the site then we should consider
>> > > > what works for them as well.
>> > > >
>> > > > *Volunteers?
>> > > >
>> > > > So, if anyone is interested in helping manage the site, please
>> > volunteer!
>> > > >
>> > > > -Majken "Lucy" Connor
>> > > > _______________________________________________
>> > > > community-local-sites mailing list
>> > > > community-...@lists.mozilla.org
>> > > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/community-local-sites
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > *Regnard Raquedan, MBA, MSc.*
>> > > reg...@raquedan.com
>> > > (+1) 416 841 0552
>> > > http://www.raquedan.com
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